Hello everyone.

I have a problem with an A-12742 MPU that came out of an Indiana Jones and I am hoping someone here can help me out.

When it was in the machine the vol + and the enter button were not working.
Also row 5 column 1 (left outlane on Indy) was permanently closed.

There was fairly extensive battery acid damage so I replaced U16 and that fixed the vol+ and the enter button.

I then replaced U20 to try to fix the row 5 column 1 problem.
That did not fix it so I worked backwards and replaced U18, U19, U13 and U14, testing after each chip.

I have removed the row 5 column 1 problem but now it shows ground shorts on row 1,2 and 3.

I am at a loss.
I have put sockets on everything and even with U20, U13, U14, U18 and U19 not in the sockets the game still shows the ground shorts on row 1,2 and 3.

I swapped out another board and put it in Indy and it works fine, which also confirms there was no driver board problems causing it.

When I am testing I only have J205 connected.

What should I be looking at next?

Any help would be much appreciated, I don't want to chuck the board.

Matt.

I am off to work now but I will take some high res photos when I get home and put them up.

The thing that is confusing me is with all those chips removed I am still getting ground shorts.
From what I can see the circuitry before U20 is no where near the acid damage and it all looks clean.

Matt.

Hello Terry.

I have just gotten home and I think I will have another play with this board.

I am sure I checked all my traces and through holes because I am fairly meticulous with that sort of thing being an electrician (don't say it).
I will pull the chips and start to continuity check all the traces to make sure I have not missed anything.
I might pull the resistors too and give the area a good check over again.

I will put some pics up of the board once I have removed my nail polish (off the board, lol), the chips and resistors so you can see whats going on.

Just out of curiosity I have always used nail polish to re-insulate my traces after sanding and cleaning, opinions??

Matt.

Edit- Yes I always let the nail polish dry before I attempt to power up the board.

Terry, I just saw you battery corrosion post and I think I need to do more checking.
I didn't dig as deep as you have explained, I may need to remove more resistors that I thought looked ok but may not be.

I actually have a pic or two before I started work on the board.
I will put them up now, res might not be that great but it will give you and idea.

Oh I forgot to say, this board had had previous work done to it.

Matt.

Here are the before pics.
And U16 was already in a socket too.(I redid it after these pics)

Matt.

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Ok, I have some better res pics.

I have now removed all my previous work (except the sockets on U13 and U14) and I do see a few broken traces that I MAY have missed before but I am not sure.
There are the obvious ones which I had stitched before which are now un-stitched due to desoldering everything again.

I did continuity check all the sockets one by one as I soldered them in but who knows, I was rushing a bit and pissed off by then..

The board was thoroughly cleaned below the battery holder with a stiff toothbrush and vinegar prior to my first solder job on it.

I will now solder back in all my sockets and continuity check each one as I go.
Then the resistors in the same fashion.

Hopefully it all works after that....

I just noticed I bent a few pins on the connectors when I cleaned it, not bad, all good now.

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Thanks for the thumbs up Terry.
I was pondering pulling those resistors and I will now for sure.

I also printed enlarged pics of the traces to make it easier to check them after I solder each component back in.
It will save me opening up the bloody huge fold out schematic which has print too small to read for my crap eyes

Matt.

Hi again.
I have had a bit more time to investigate the multiple row ground short problem and now I am even more confused.
I'm hoping someone can make sense of my problem or at least guide me a little further into diagnosing what the heck is wrong with this thing.
The board is on the bench.
In the machine it showed ground shorts on row 1,2 and 4.
Direct switches all OK.

The board has been checked again for continuity between everything downstream from u12 and it's all good.

I have used a scope and I have a pulsing signal on all 8 of the outputs of u20, and the inverted pulsing signal on all 8 the inputs.
All 8 inputs pulses can be seen back at u14 and all 8 output pulses can be seen at j206/j207.
The first picture is the input signal and the second picture is the output signal.
So the column drive section must be OK?

When I use the diode test lead to pulse each column driver to each switch row the associated signals are all present at u18 and u19, the same as in the second picture.
The pulses can then be seen on the other side of u18 and u19 and the same pulses back at u13, seen in picture 3.

Been that the direct switches and column drivers seen ok and the direct switches work when the board is installed then it's it safe to assume the data lines are OK?
The data lines have no idea how to test properly.

So basically I have all the same readings and measurements on the working and non working rows.

Hope someone can help me where to look next, I'm stumped.

Cheers.

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Corrected, I just wrote u14, not u13, thanks for picking that up.

No mix up though, that is the same diagram I used and all the readings are as they should be.
Hence the confusion.

Where do I look next?

Matt.

Hi zaza, yes I have 5v at all of those pins on u13.
2,4,6,8,11,13,15 and 17.
Same voltages as where they leave u18 and u19.

And the board is out of the machine on the bench too, not in the machine.

Thanks for the help.
Matt.

With CPU in machine and j205- j212 disconnected I get ground row short 1,2 and 4, tick.
With u13 out I have not tried, I will check..

Continuity on all data lines between u12 and u13, tick.
5v at all inputs on u13, tick.

Thanks for helping me through this, much appreciated.

Next idea?

Cheers,
Matt.

I have a few LS240's and already tried a new one in u13 with no luck, 2 actually.

Now you see why I'm stumped, nothing makes sense to me.

Matt.

I will check that.

I'm just out atm but I'm home later.

Cheers.
Matt.

Sascha, you my friend are a legend!

It was a tiny crack in the trace between pin 1 and pin 19 of U13.

I fixed it and voila, no more ground shorts.
It was honestly the only trace I did not check, and it bit me in the backside.

If you look at the pic I posted earlier in the thread you can actually see the damage just above pin 19.

Again, thank you so much for your help (and diagram) Sascha and thanks to Terry for his earlier help, you guys rock.

Matt.

I still have not done a full physical switch test in the machine, just installed the board and turned it on and just the time/date message (no batteries installed yet)
Went into switch test mode too and no unexpected closed switches.

I will test fully tomorrow but I think it's good.

The only thing bothering me, and I will find out tomorrow when I test..
Why was row 3 not shorted like 1,2 and 4.

As you said this makes no sense as they are on the same side of u13, and I like things to be logical and make sense, any ideas??

EDIT- I know they weren't actually shorted but that is just the terminology I use, probably shouldn't as it can be confusing I guess.

Matt.

Nice flashing arrow!

Yep, that was the culprit.

Matt.

I will test it fully tomorrow and hopefully not have to report back here

Thanks again Sascha.

By the way, you any good with Stern driver boards?
I was working on a 520-5137-00 rev.G from a playboy and I had a few strange things with it too.
I hate this board and the associated schematics, they suck balls.
I think I will re attack this again next, it has been on the to do list for a while..

I will start another thread soon, feel free to chime in if you want, would be much appreciated.

Matt.