Working on a fish tales. The sound has an issue. Start a ball and all is fine. Whenever a solenoid fires (like the fish topper) it makes the sound "stick" in that spot. When the ball drains and it is time for ball 2, the sound starts normal again.

Here's what I have done. New ribbon cables, new roms including sound. Where should I go next? Should I take the sound board out and inspect it for cracks in the solder joints, and if so is there a particular area of the board to be looking at?

Is the sound board even likely to be the culprit here? Having one Gottlieb, one newer Stern and one Williams game makes it hard to test boards, LOL.

Still no luck finding this issue "sound hanging" after certain targets or coils fire. Even had my favorite pinball tech over to try and fix it. He took the sound board, replaced a couple of chips he has seen go bad before all to no avail.

This is starting to tick me off. It's making me really hate the fish.

We actually checked this, they are not. The fish coil in the topper would make it hang so I unplugged it, now the captive ball in the boat ramp will trigger the "hang" everytime, although this is not the only thing...very frustrating!

Not exactly sure what you mean. It doesn't hang on the same note per say, when it hangs, it hangs, sometimes its a buzzzzzz sound, sometimes a musical note.

The sound goes back to normal when a ball drains and the next ball starts. I've tried 3 different sounds roms, the original, one from JWJ, and one from my pinball tech. Changing the sound rom does not help. FT has only the one sound rom.

I have not removed or changed the ASIC chip. I have pushed around on it and today even tried to put a zip tie around it (that is harder than it sounds to get done!). I am just out of my league on this repair as I am with most board work....