My Firepower is hesitant again where I shoot the ball in the left lock and the game takes many seconds to sometimes minutes before it registers. Same with draining the ball, but not always. I checked to see how the chips were seated on my boards and the 6810 RAM chip pulled right out without any tools. Unfortunately one of the legs broke off when I bent it back into position.

So I have two issues, the hesitation, and the broken leg. My first question, would this chip affect the registering of the left lock shot? Secondly, with the chip seated in game, the bottom right leg is the one that broke off. I have it back in the game and the game is still running, does that leg have a purpose for this particular game? I believe it is IC16 if I'm looking at the schematics correctly.

I know I need to resocket this board. Where can I get another chip? Are they even available?

I tried posting a photo, but keep getting an Upload ID error?

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I can now upload photos!

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According to the third photo, it looks like Pin 1 is the broken leg. That's what I meant by bottom right. Please forgive my terminology as I'm not an expert at this.

Would this chip cause the long delays I'm experiencing, or do I have something else going on as well?

Yes. It's been great until recently. The long delays of the machine reacting to a lock or drain has gotten longer. Today I was playing and locked a ball, it took a couple of minutes to register. Drained later and I started watching something on Netflix before it finally reacted.

That's when I checked the socketed chips to see if they were seated ok and the RAM pulled right out without much effort. Which bent the leg and when I bent it back it was too soft and broke off.

To be clear, the delays I'm experiencing were never this long or frequent, this is a fairly new issue.

I appreciate that, Andrew. PM sent.

I've checked my switches and cleaned them with paper like an EOS switch on a flipper with no effect. I can also say that when I've had delays before, the only things I've ever done to see them go away, was unplug the MPU and driver boards, take them out and look for anything obvious and plug them back in.