Hi y'all. New FG owner here, pretty excited! I get pretty ocd with my games and want everything to work perfectly. The following give lights are always on, whether in attract mode or game. I suspect they are controlled lamps that should flicker in attract mode, and otherwise turn on and off, and I have some lamp drivers to replace. But wanted to check first. Can someone please confirm?

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Followup question: Sometimes my displays are solid color. Sometimes they flicker/flash. I can't tell if this is a feature, or a gremlin. I suspect gremlin. Here's a vid of them being flashy (hope it doesn't mess people up that there's TAF music in the background).

Edit: I assume this is a gremlin not a feature, and I'll be doing all this stuff tomorrow:

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Flickering Displays.
Flickering displays can often be attributed to cracked solder joints or a broken lead on a component. Here are some things to check:

Pin 36 on the display glass.
R21, R22, R29.
Q17.
U1 pin 13.
Often reflowing the solder joints on these components will fix the flickering problem. Also reflow ALL the header pin solder joints. These crack easily from plugging and unplugging the cable.
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Yes, that is an LED, and there's no adapter kit for the lamp board. I'm thinking they might be anti-ghosting led - there are other LED in this one that seem to work great.

Can someone count the number of "wee woo" on startup of their working flash gordon? I'm sure mine only did it a few times when it was working, and now that it's not working I get 20 of them. Having trouble finding any info on the startup sequence sounds, and unsure if chasing that is a red herring or not.

thank you, that means I'm not crazy. And I think it's reasonable to guess that the number of cycles is a helper to indicate what the issue with mine is, I just can't find any info in the manual / pinwiki / google about the startup sounds. But for now, at least I'm not crazy. Yet.

Interesting. The sound probably doesn't mean failed bootup because xxx then, it's probably something more like MPU not recognized (because failed bootup). I'm going to stop chasing the sound thing then and just do what I'm guessing my next step is, hoping it works.

How do we get colors from that? I have a guess, but could use confirmation.

My guess is that I see J1, pin 1, leads to A4 (board) J4-4 (connector, pin) and A3 (board) J4-6 (connector pin). To the left of J1-1, is "23" which means wire color blue/yellow. Is that how it works?

Can someone with the siegecraft led adapters take a picture for me? Step 4 is to attach the alligator clip for the wiring harness to 'common' wire which is described as braided, but not the GI braided wire. As far as I can tell, the only braided wire I have is for the GI. I'd love a pic of the alligator clip attached so I can see what I'm missing.