Tempest Behaving Badly

K3V

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My Tempest starting acting up a few weeks back (shocking I know). After a while the levels would freak out and the enemies would start getting all big and out of proportion. I tried reseating and cleaning edge connectors on the PCB and now I'm getting this:



Start buttons won't work and I'm getting erratic behavior in the test menu as well. Any thoughts? Time to send the PCB out for repair?
 
My Tempest starting acting up a few weeks back (shocking I know). After a while the levels would freak out and the enemies would start getting all big and out of proportion. I tried reseating and cleaning edge connectors on the PCB and now I'm getting this:



Start buttons won't work and I'm getting erratic behavior in the test menu as well. Any thoughts? Time to send the PCB out for repair?

First take a look at them there voltages, first thing! Epically the +5 that board looks like it is failing do to power loss, maybe a short or failing component but my bet is the power is dropping to the point where the game cant run any longer. You can see something is very wrong about 26 sec. mark.
 
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