Hi everyone! im new to pinside and pinball ownership . I grew up in the late 70s and 80s living for pinball (loved games like Blackout, Firepower, Black Knight , and Space Shuttle . Fast forward many years later and at 46 i finally own my own machine . I purchased an F14 Tomcat about 6mnths ago. I had zero experience with pinballs and it had a few issues so i sent it out and had lots of work done to it. (flippers all rebuilt, switch errors fixed etc). I have since learned a lot and have done some restore work on it. Even though im a newbie to pinball machines im pretty handy so i stripped most of the playfield , removed the old gross mylar levelled the inserts and clearcoated. It plats amazing with no issues.... except.... when i bought it i didnt even realize until later that it has all the sound effects and speech but no music. I have done all the tests in the manual.

Coin door sounds test- 1 through 9 all good. 10 through 17 (or however many there are left are either sound effects or nothing (i assume the quiet ones are the music)
SW2 main board test - all good
SW1 sound board test - all good. (getting the descending jet sound)
Pulled and reset all cables from sound board to main board multiple times
Purchased new licenced rom chips U4 U19 U21 U22 no change

So... even though im learning as i go and getting quite good at the mech side of things, im still totally ignorant on the electronic side of things so im hoping someone can help me at least try a few simple things before i have to bring in a real pinball tech to my home and break the bank .

Any help would be so much appreciated.

Thanks
Terry

Thanks Pinball, looks like a great site for things down the road (always something going wrong )
This is an addictive hobby and im sure there are going to be more machines to come down the road. (wife approval of course) lol

If i didnt love my wife so much i would seriously consider the pin over her lol
Thanks Newtoit.
I would love for you to add to this thread and let us know what your issues are and what parts you are ordering ?
It might help my issue .

Thanks newtoit. Ill await your findings.
Anyone else have any idea what i might be dealing with ?

Nice freddy! Yeah, my favorite car is a 1969 superbee.
Looked below and around the batteries and everything looks really clean. No leakage evident.
Unfortunatly I'm not comfortable soldiering boards so I think I'm looking at a repair guy.
Wondering if there might be anyone somewhat near me woth an f14 or a compatable machine that I could try my soundboard in to at least see if that is the culprit or not. I'm in the toronto canada area.

Anyone in the toronto area ?

So it was a sound board issue Ronnie ? Any idea what they ended up fixing ?

Ok thanks. Im hoping i can find someone near me to test my sound board first, Im really hoping its something to do with the sound board and not the mpu

Ok thanks a lot . My board looks really clean around the batteries also but you never know. I want to confirm if its a sound board problem or not first and them move on from there.

Yeah, thats what im hearing from most people.

Ok, making progress here. I was able to test my sound board in another F14 and no music in his machine either so i now know its the sound card and not the main board. Based on this new info, any suggestions on where to start with the board ? Again, it has new sound roms so its not that and we tried his board with my cables so i know its not the cables.

Ill try this first and go from there.

Thanks again guys !

Update on my F14.
Could nt figure it out so i removed the board and brought it in to a tech. Should have it fixed and back early next week . Ill keep everyone posted on what the issue was.

Well i finally got my sound board back . Reinstalled it and ...yay! I have music ! I cant believe the difference in how the game feels with the full sound package. Its amazing !! Turns out it was a pooched integrated circuit on the board. 20 dollar part , 80 dollars labor to fix . I really need to learn how to do board work !

All the bill says is part WO 7063. Make any sense ?