(Topic ID: 236869)
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Bram Stoker's Dracula
Williams, 1993
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Indian Land, SC
Nearly guarantee you your problem lies with your DMD Controller behind the translite. Did you reset the cable on that side?
Communication problem between the MPU and video RAM on the DMD controller board. To confirm, try running a display test from the game menus to the end and you'll get a report on reads/writes to the video RAM.
Can usually be fixed by reseating (or replacing) the two wide ribbon cables that run from the MPU to the DMD controller board.
Quoted from Yesh23:Curious what could cause this issue with my color DMD in my Dracula. It has been working perfect and I turned on the machine and I'm getting lines with no color. I've reset the cables but it didn't help.
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I'd try re-flashing the colorDMD.
Quoted from Dmod:Communication problem between the MPU and video RAM on the DMD controller board. To confirm, try running a display test from the game menus to the end and you'll get a report on reads/writes to the video RAM.
Can usually be fixed by reseating (or replacing) the two wide ribbon cables that run from the MPU to the DMD controller board.
Ribbon cables swapped out and I still have the same problem. I ran the display test and came back PAGE ERROR BK (1) O 12. It’s hard to tell if a K and D because of a line thru it.
Don’t reflash the ColorDMD. It’s not the problem and not in the link that’s causing the page error.
If you have another WPC game, next step is to swap the DMD controller boards to see if the problem follows the board. It could be a failed video RAM or a bad header connection. More commonly it’s the RAM.
On the MPU it could be a poor socket connection at an IC or bad header connection.
It’s usually a ribbon cable or the video RAM.
Quoted from PinballManiac40:This is the ribbon cable that normally causes that issue. Sometimes it takes reseating it 2 or 3 times at each board connection to clear it up. [quoted image]
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