When was it serviced, recently or in the 90s?
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Those look great!
Measure the voltages on the test points on the CPU board. Need to see if the power supply voltages are making it reliably to the CPU board.
Remove the screws on the driver board (lower board in your first picture). Carefully pull the 2 boards apart and press them back together. The long white translucent connector between the CPU and driver boards is the "40 pin connector", notorious for causing issues. Pulling it apart and putting it back together cleans the contact points and may be the cause of the problem.
Are the contact points in the battery holder rusted or corroded? They look rusted in the picture but it is hard to tell.
Quoted from crujones4life:Forgive my ignorance on this but the test points are all the raised metal cylinders/nipples right? Positive to test point and negative to any ground is OK? Don't want to mess anything up.
I think it is just rust I will check when I get off tonight.
Yep, that’s right. The tiny metal studs are the test points. You can put the negative meter lead on the ground braid.
Quoted from crujones4life:No NVRAM. Battery holder is shot. It won't boot without batteries? Feck! No way around this?
The game should boot to audits without batteries. Static numbers in the displays.
You can try and do the cheat boot, just in case the problem is with your displays. With the coin door open, turn the game on. Then very fast, turn the power switch off and back on. Attract mode should start (playfield inserts flashing). You may have to try it several times to get it to work. Based on your original description (both LEDs on), I don't think this will work.
With the game on, press the diagnostic button on the CPU board and tell us what the LEDs do.
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