I have a 1980 Williams Firepower. Had the sound board repaired once. Service tech looked at the machine earlier this week since it had a 1497 code. He got it working, where it actually kicked out a ball and played (sound would not work however), but stated the pins on the CPU and Driver boards are very bad and need to be replaced and that the game may very likely act up again. Sure enough, about 20 mins later we fired up the game. It powered up, but would not kick the ball out and would not start a game.

The service rep stated he could replace all of the pins on the CPU and Driver board, which there are a lot of them. He normally "does not" recommend replacing the boards, but in my case due to the condition he saw, he thought it may be a more cost effective to replace the CPU and Driver boards, as well as get an Inkochnito Bridge board to replace the recifiers in the lower right side of the cabinet (I guess this would prevent a possible fire hazard). He indicated the Power supply board does not need to be replaced, as he can fix that. Repairing or replacing the sound board and Speech board was my option.

So my question is would you repair boards that are almost 40 years old, or replace per what I stated above?

Thank you.