I have an AL3. Pinball repair guy looked at it one day and said “anything ever goes out on that, it’s a brick...trust me, I see them all the time”.

If not so, only thing keeping me from looking harder is the ‘firm’. I want another one, but not sure the age and price is too close to what I paid for AL3 new.

So this post serves two purposes...it bumps DSmoke's sales effort (!)...and it hopefully helps me acquire 265 games on an AL1.

If anybody knows how to put 265 games on an AL1, please post here or PM me.

Gotta give kudos to LetGo!

John (or anybody), what kinds of upgrades are possible? Anybody swap out the CPU and/or monitor?

I think it's cranking an old Dell.

Dsmoke...I continue to hope these are good bumps and you sell your pristine example soon.

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So...I'll be the first to admit I'm no techie, but the SSD swap went easily, with John's assistance.

But even after I disable the parallel port I get the pic. Talking with John as well, but figured I'd crowd-source...anybody see/deal with this?

And when I have it on the computer monitor it says 'Invalid boot disk, insert boot disk in A:'

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Thanks YOPP...turns out the data ribbon was twisted, it was so wedged between components it was probably built that way. I turned so red stripe was nearer to power on drive. But before that I messed with BIOS. When I went to check the effect of the data ribbon, it won’t turn on. I bricked it!

Now to research that fix.

Dude, you’re awesome. I’ll give it a shot, thanks!

The red stripe on the data ribbon needs to be closest to the power connection. I can only tell you that mine wasn’t (but still the pins clicked in...not sure why design would allow that). I fixed that and screwed up BIOS at the same time, so I’m curious about your outcome. I hope to have BIOS fixed in the next couple days.

My amateur attempt at a pro tip (if you have the SSD)...we removed two sliding drawers from the drive bays to make a big/open capacity, then used a zip tie thru a hole in the drive to secure it and simultaneously ensure it will never touch metal. FWIW

Yes! Which brings me to a new problem...it's landscape and needs to be portrait, and when I start a game the screen goes (and stays) dark.

I imagine those are likely video settings, and hope to resolve freaking soon (continued wisdom from the crowd is appreciated!).

PinFever, fixing the red stripe on the data ribbon got me past the A: error!

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Not yet...is that in BIOS or on the machine please?

DSmoke, you sell yours yet?

Orientation is fixed, but still get a blank screen when I select a game and press P1.

Anyhoo...thinking about getting another AL1 and selling my AL3.

I’m in the market for yet another one.

Well, if I find a couple uprights let’s talk. I’m likely selling a cocktail non-AL multigame and an AL3, and less likely my recently-acquired AL1 cocktail

Holy bleep. John’s drive is amazing...as long as the data ribbon is plugged in correctly.

Dude is stand-up as well. Thanks John!