Re: Stratovox Board Problem

whats the voltage no the board?? 5v 4.8v 5.1v??? look in differt places as well i'v got some board that i have to set the voltage a little higher (age i guest)..

hope this helps

---- Original message from: Matt Rossiter ----
> 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
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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