Re: Stratovox Board Problem

This is in the cabinet. I should correct myself on one thing though - this
game does run ok in attract mode, but it does tend to reset at a certain
point during attract mode after warming up for a while and I didn't really
notice it. I almost get the feeling that maybe there's a bad rom on the
board that tests fine when you do a checksum, but in the game it's flakey.
Hmmm.

I'll look over my board again and try your suggestions.

Matt

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From: <solarfox@texas.net>
To: <rasterlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Saturday, July 12, 2003 11:20 AM
Subject: Re: RASTER: Stratovox Board Problem

> On Sat, 12 Jul 2003 10:49:17 -0700, you wrote:
>
> >This game runs fine in attract mode. It'll even run for hours with no
> >problem. It takes credits, it makes sounds, it runs happily along. The
> >symptom for this game problem is simple. If I hit player1 or player2 -
the
> >game resets. It doesn't matter if there are credits in the game or not -
> >the game simply resets when I hit either button. I'm sure there's a
simple
> >solution to this game - but for some reason I'm not getting it.
> >Suggestions?
>
> Is this in a cabinet, or on a test bench? If it's a cabinet, first
> thing I would do is take a close look at the wiring harness going up to
> your control panel; make _very_ sure that you don't have a wire pinched in
> between two bits of metal (such as the coin door or the control panel
> latches) that happen to be grounded -- believe it or not, I've had several
> games recently with similar symptoms, and that's what it's turned out to
> be.
>
> Also check the bottom of your PC boards and make sure you don't have a
> component lead folded over far enough to touch something it shouldn't be.
> (Happens more often than you'd think, mostly because the manufacturers
> didn't trim the leads adequately to begin with, or someone before you has
> repaired the board in the past and didn't trim the leads at all.)
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