Ok well I have spent the better part of the last 3 or 4 days getting both of my wg6100 monitors working, special thanks to slackmoe.
Anyway, one of them I intend to restore a pretty beat up tempest with.
I reflowed some solder on the tempest board (interconnect cable) made sure it tempest board looked ok, and went for it. I rebuilt the a/rII and tested it in my battlezone and major havoc (tempest conversion) then left it in there and took another rebuilt a/rII (from the battlezone) and put it in this tempest. Needless to say I was fairly thorough that everything I could control was working 100%. I replaced the molex connectors on the a/rII and on the tempest wiring harness.
So, I decided to try to test this tempest board with my newly rebuilt 6100 by going into test mode. So I tried it and got nothing. I went back to the board, pulled it out, pushed on connectors, pushed on chips, tried again (test mode)
well the game came on, but it was a smaller screen than normal, kind of pushed to the left, upper side of the screen. Showing free play with 2 credits, a few high scores saved with over 330,000 on them, but the start buttons were not blinking and I could not get the game to start. The game went into some type of attract mode (with no sounds) and that's where I left it (turned off)
where should I start, in terms of trying to diagnose this board? I do not own the necessary equipment to analyze or fix this, do I just ship it off?
in case it slipped by, trying to start the game in test mode did not produce a test mode screen. I guess I had better made sure my control panel is all hooked up and working and report back concerning that.
Anyway, one of them I intend to restore a pretty beat up tempest with.
I reflowed some solder on the tempest board (interconnect cable) made sure it tempest board looked ok, and went for it. I rebuilt the a/rII and tested it in my battlezone and major havoc (tempest conversion) then left it in there and took another rebuilt a/rII (from the battlezone) and put it in this tempest. Needless to say I was fairly thorough that everything I could control was working 100%. I replaced the molex connectors on the a/rII and on the tempest wiring harness.
So, I decided to try to test this tempest board with my newly rebuilt 6100 by going into test mode. So I tried it and got nothing. I went back to the board, pulled it out, pushed on connectors, pushed on chips, tried again (test mode)
well the game came on, but it was a smaller screen than normal, kind of pushed to the left, upper side of the screen. Showing free play with 2 credits, a few high scores saved with over 330,000 on them, but the start buttons were not blinking and I could not get the game to start. The game went into some type of attract mode (with no sounds) and that's where I left it (turned off)
where should I start, in terms of trying to diagnose this board? I do not own the necessary equipment to analyze or fix this, do I just ship it off?
in case it slipped by, trying to start the game in test mode did not produce a test mode screen. I guess I had better made sure my control panel is all hooked up and working and report back concerning that.



