Hi, I’m new to this forum, so I hope I posted in the right spot. I was a Tales From the Crypt Pinball machine. When you turn it on, it lights up but no display and nothing happens. I had a repairman come in. He replaced the motherboard and a rectifier in the power supply. It started working. But, now stopped agai doing exactly the same thing $700 later. This time, if I leave it on for a few minutes, it may start working. Sometimes it works and sometimes not. Can anyone help? It seems like it was neither the motherboard nor the rectifier.

I had to by the MPU directly from the manufacturer That was $300. His labor was $430. He came once to diagnose it. Once to install the board and it started working. Then it stopped working the next day. He sent a worker who couldn’t fix it. Then he came again and replaced the rectifier in the power supply. It worked again for 2 days, then stopped again. It turns on, but almost seems like it needs to warm up - it may start after 30 seconds, sometimes 2 minutes but most times not at all. I called the repair guy and am waiting for him to call me back. I though maybe someone on this forum could suggest what the problems might be. I’m on Long Island - labor here is $125/hour. Yeah - I know - I should move