O'fallon, MO
My pirates won't power up anymore either. Just hums and the red lights in the backbox come on, but no power. Could the power supply be faulty?
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Quoted from LTG:Please try jump starting the mother board. Briefly short the two pins circled in the picture.
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I cannot find those on my MOBO. Is it possible that the one you have pictured is different than mine?
Quoted from zaphX:Any chance that is going on here? Is the PC fan spinning when you power up? (Behind the metal cover)
The PC fan does not turn on. So that would lead me to believe that the PC power supply is dead or no power is getting up there.
Quoted from PinMonk:It also looks like you have a bent pin in that block. Make sure it's not touching anything.
It's not bent. I think it just appears that way from the angle of the photo. I just want to make sure I jump the right connectors.
Quoted from KornFreak28:So you just turned the machine on and touched those 2 pins with a single wire? Just jump starting a car or something?
Is the machine now working like nothing ever happened?
I used a small flat head screwdriver and carefully touched the pins together. The PC instantly powered up. I restarted the game a few times and played a few games, it's been working normally.
Quoted from MurphyPeoples:Two questions though... what made this occur? And why did a momentary jumper fix this?
I'd like to understand.
I technically don't know what made this occur, but I think I know what triggered it. We had family over for Thanksgiving and my sister pretty much cut her kids loose when she arrived. They are wild and instantly commenced molesting everything they could get their hands on. I went downstairs and found them unsupervised and fast toggling the power switches. I suppose they enjoying the popping sounds they make. I unplugged them and told them to get away from the games since they aren't interested in actually playing them. Later, when everyone left, I tried to power them all on to make sure everything was okay, and that's when noticed pirates would not power on.
Quoted from MurphyPeoples:OMG. I'm way too OCD to allow any unsupervised around our pins. You've got faith. Glad to hear everything worked out in the end
Well, I really didn't allow it. They ended up down there unsupervised without my knowledge. I can't keep up with were everyone's at every given minute. Plus my old man brought his laptop over for me to fix, as usual, so I was preoccupied with that at the time.
Quoted from LTG:The momentary jumper simulated the push button on a computer. Power supplies don't start on their own anymore. The motherboard starts them. So when you jump start the mother board, you start the power supply up and off you go.
The problem can happen on it's own, kind of rare. The usual cause is turning the game on, and then back off before it is fully booted up. Happens a lot around the holidays when people not familiar with pinball get at your games. That is why we don't see too much of it and then all of a sudden a run on it.
This makes so much sense. Thanks for the explanation.
Quoted from zaphX:Also worth noting: I had a strange event yesterday where the machine shut down in mid game. I powered off and back on and it was then fine.
Possibly related, I don't know.
It's strange that you are getting power to the jumper pins, but that jumping them is not working. Are you sure you are hitting the correct pins? Maybe double-check?
Quoted from zaphX:I had to short the CLR CMOS pins. After doing that, shorting the power pins got it booting again. I was ready to buy a new mobo off Amazon.
That's good to know. I would think that pulling the battery would have accomplished the same thing as well.
Quoted from PinMonk:Yours is newer. Guess the H81M are getting too scarce/expensive since they're pretty old and have been in use since The Hobbit.
The strange thing is that mine was one of the last ones off the line (late May if I'm recalling correct) and I have one of the older boards.
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