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bally mpu 2518-35

By BarryMulvihill

6 years ago



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#1 6 years ago

i have a bally embryon that wont boot. it just gets the first flicker when powered on. having recently got this machine, it has booted a few times (with no sound) but now wont boot anymore. i found on the back of the mpu were jumper wires to different stuff. i reflowed those wires and it booted a couple of times. i thought it was fixed but then stopped booting again. i read up on jumpers to investigate closer, and found the wires on the back of MPU are not the jumpers but are mostly going from U2 to different stuff. Im confused as to what they are there for at all. And also inspecting each jumper, i found only about half of them were correct. but it had booted previously.
why would these jumpers from U2 and other places be necessary? some wires connect to U1 and U3, where there arent even chips.
anyone seen this or did this before?
thanks

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#2 6 years ago

someone had trouble replacing the U2 socket and made a mess that they needed jumpers to fix. I am guessing something else got opened up. Most of the pins at U2 will connect to the same position at U6, so you can buzz out between those two sockets looking for the open one. Looks like the chip enable (unique connects compared to u6) already got jumpered.

#3 6 years ago

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#4 6 years ago

well that worked. there were a few that were open that i reflowed. it just booted up.

any thoughts as to if i should replace U2 socket and correct jumpers, or just leave be?

thanks for the help
-barry

#5 6 years ago
Quoted from BarryMulvihill:

well that worked. there were a few that were open that i reflowed. it just booted up.
any thoughts as to if i should replace U2 socket and correct jumpers, or just leave be?
its funny someone who had trouble replacing a socket created a solution as complex as this.
thanks for the help
-barry

Gently flex on the chip while powered up. If it makes the CPU lockup or reboot you will eventually have problems that socket. If it seems stable I wouldnt screw with it anymore since it will likely get worse if you try and rework it 2nd time.

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