Hello all, I'm having trouble with my DESW. It was working fine until Saturday. Trying to keep this brief, but want to be thorough.

Was working fine. Lifted the playfield to replace a bulb. Replaced bulb and lowered the playfield. No lighty-lighty when I turn on. Lifted the playfield (power still on), and the game went silent as I did so. Still had GI. Replaced bulb (bad LED) and the light powered on. Lowered the playfield and game fire back up. This was concerning to me as I assumed there was a short in the main harness running into backbox. It almost seem like the harness got squeezed between the playfield and cabinet when I raised the playfield, I had never noticed this before.

I started the game, shooter lane kicker not working (the coil which kicked the ball into the shooter lane, not the autolaunch itself). Game did a ball search and said 0 balls missing. Lifted playfield to see if I had somehow knocked the coil solders off or something. Game went silent again. Hasn't come back on since.

I've got all GI but no power to CPU or DMD. Speakers humming, so sound board getting some power. CPU test LEDs are blank. They flashed briefly yesterday on start up though, very quickly in succession, maybe half a second, and then off.

I checked all fuses and got continuity. I did find one bad fuse clip on the power supply board but it tested and seems like it's still got good contact. I'm getting +12 and -12 at the at the test points on the power supply board but only getting .7 on the 5v test point. Getting the same .7v at the 5v on the motherboard testpoint.

I'm not very good with this type of fix. Bad switch, bad coil, a quick solder here and there, I can do it. But this is above my pay grade.

At this point I am assuming bad power supply board. Perhaps I accidental shorted something with the playfield up and knocked it out, I don't know.

Thoughts, questions? I will try to be specific in any answers, but like I said, I'm not really very good with side of things.

Thanks for the input, Wayout. This was my concern as well. I tried what you've suggested, lifting the playfield, while trying to see what what shorted. If revealed almost no tension whatsoever on the wiring. The harness appears to securely zip tied to the cabinet, all inside plastic coping. Virtually nothing moved. I have also "futzed" extensively with the wiring the that region attempting to identify any short to no avail. Further, this doesn't seem like it should have caused a full loss of 5V at the power supply. Though I am not ruling this out, I think my first step has to be to repair/replace the power supply first.

These may not be high resolution enough as I'm only working on my cell phone right now. I don't see any apparent leakage or pregnant cap (maybe c8). The broke use clip is the lower left on F5.

I replaced the power supply with an XPin. Fired right up. Seems to be working perfectly. DMD even looks brighter than ever.

Seems to be the worlds biggest coincidence. I can't explain it.

Also, I found the issue with the shooter lane. The ball through switch was out due to a broken wire at the terminal connector. Re-crimp, and viola.

Thanks for the input guys.

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Sure enough, I see it. I already replaced the board, but will repair and see what happens. I need to work on my soldering anyway.