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DMD half wonky - SOLVED

By Grangeomatic

5 years ago



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#1 5 years ago

I’ve got a buddy with a Fish Tales, his only machine. It’s been good for years, and suddenly the display has gone wonky. It’s as if you take the screen and divide it into 10 vertical strips. Strips 1,2,3 & 4 all look fine, but then strips 5-10 are all just duplicates of strip #4.
We tried the low hanging fruit first: reseat all the ribbon cables. No change.
I tried his display in one of my machines. It worked fine, so the display is good.
He replaced the ribbon cable (maybe all of them), still the same.
So it seems that now some actual effort will be needed to sort this out. He lives about 40 minutes away, so I’d like to go in with a plan. Any suggestions?

Thanks,
Jeff

#2 5 years ago

If reseating/replacing this ribbon cable at all 4 connections, then you are probably looking at a RAM failure on the DMD controller board. MPU board could also be a possibility.

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#3 5 years ago

Thanks, I’ll check into that.

#4 5 years ago

So if reseating the ribbon cable does not help, remove the MPU board and press down on the U9 ASIC with the board sitting flat on a table.

Hopefully one of these 2 things will fix the issue.

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1 week later
#5 5 years ago

Replaced the RAM chip on the DMD controller board, and all is back to good. Thanks for the help.

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