Hey all.
So I have been working on a beat up Demolition man for the past couple of months and I am having one last (or so I hope) problem that is really stumping me. At first the lower ball release and right jet bumper coils were locked on as soon as the game was powered on while the diverter hold and top popper solenoids would not fire at all. I replaced the Tip36c, tip102 and predrivers for the high power coil and the tip102 and pre drivers for the low power coils. Turned it back on and nothing changed. Anyhow replaced the u4 and u5 ls chips upstream and BAM no more locked on coils but still no working top popper or diverter hold. I have desoldered and checked all of the diodes and resistors for both of these and all test good. When I test the top popper transistor tip 102 to ground it fires and the u5 and u4 chips I replaced earlier should indeed be the ones controlling everything. Is there somewhere else I should be looking?? 20 pin connector?etc? I am really stumped here. Thanks for any info.

Thanks wolf. All transistors have been replaced and the diodes and resistors all test good too. Strange huh?

They do not.

Yea I'm out of ideas too. Reseating does not work, so yea basically everything from the u4 and u5 chips to the transistors are new that's why I was thinking it might be some kind of problem further upstream from the Ls chips? I just don't know how reasonable that sounds. Normally things like this have always been just an easy transistor fix for me...

Yes I am getting 79v testing dc volts on them

I did test them with one side desoldered and they both tested good. As I understand sometimes tests can fail so perhaps I should just replace them? What do ya think as I'm kinda running out of guesses ha

Thanks dsuperbee so I looked over and continuity tested everything and sure enough there was a tiny burned trace between one on the pre-drivers and resistors. Had to jump it from the back of the board as that trace runs between the legs of another predriver. Anyways that should fix one of the coil problems! Sometimes it takes people stating the things you tell yourself you have already checked to make yourself do it again! Ha thanks

Problems solved demolition man is up and playing. It was 2 very small almost unnoticeable traces burned! Thanks you guys!!