monsterbaldy
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So let me start off with this:
What is the proper way to test voltage at the board? The method I had used was to put the ground lead on the power supply ground and the 5v pin on the harness that connects to the board.
Would an improperly grounded game cause freaky behavior? The grounding wires in this thing are like a weird maze, and it almost seems like the Power Supply is receiving it's ground from the fact that the motherboard metal enclosure is grounded... only I can't tell where the heck it is grounded, but according to a connectivity test between the enclosure and the ground prong it is.
If I seem stupid that may be accurate, because I think this machine is making me dumber.
Backstory:
My track and Field was having funky button behavior. Then it reset like twice. I tested the PS (not at the board) and it was high (like 5.4). I replaced the power supply as this one was a very old switching power supply with no adjustment knob, and a new one was $25. THe new one I hooked up and adjusted so that I was reading 5.0 even at the board (red lead on 5v pin on board harness and black lead on PS ground). It was fine for the first few sessions, just now it froze. I restarted it, it self reset.
What is the proper way to test voltage at the board? The method I had used was to put the ground lead on the power supply ground and the 5v pin on the harness that connects to the board.
Would an improperly grounded game cause freaky behavior? The grounding wires in this thing are like a weird maze, and it almost seems like the Power Supply is receiving it's ground from the fact that the motherboard metal enclosure is grounded... only I can't tell where the heck it is grounded, but according to a connectivity test between the enclosure and the ground prong it is.
If I seem stupid that may be accurate, because I think this machine is making me dumber.
Backstory:
My track and Field was having funky button behavior. Then it reset like twice. I tested the PS (not at the board) and it was high (like 5.4). I replaced the power supply as this one was a very old switching power supply with no adjustment knob, and a new one was $25. THe new one I hooked up and adjusted so that I was reading 5.0 even at the board (red lead on 5v pin on board harness and black lead on PS ground). It was fine for the first few sessions, just now it froze. I restarted it, it self reset.
