The only "mods" I would suggest (if not already done) is replace the power supply if original. Also replace the CPU cooling fan as well. If you have a couple old sticks or RAM to add to the mother board it will speed it up a tad.

If memory serves me correctly....pun intended.

RAM is :SDRAM PC100 DIMM / 168 pin PC100

Power supply is the ATX form factor.

Thanks cal50! I never heard of the RAM mod before. I bet I have some old sticks in a drawer somewhere.

Not really a mod but if your motherboard has an open slot and your have a stick of old RAM laying around that fits plug it in.

I noticed that after I upgraded to 1.5, the pop bumpers would totally slow down all the animation happening on the video. Will extra ram fix this issue, do you think?

The obsolete video system repairs is what keeps me from buying this, my favorite game....I am starting to look for an AFM. Unless I find RFM all decked already...but after all that work they might be alot more expensive.

Ya worry too much.

Just dive in. You can buy three RFM's for what one AFM will cost you.

People, people, people. Let me me show you TRUE Revenge From Mars Respect:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mike217/sets/72157627703941873/show/

GREAT game period. No one restores these to flip. I bought this a year old in 2000. Played it for 12 years and finally gave it the respect it deserved. I've had 100's of pins. RFM is still in my house.

AWESOME!!! Love the chrome cabinet accent.

I look forward to restoring mine some time in the next year...

There are often unused plugs in any machine. It's usually just the factorys way of leaving room for upgrades or the next model. If you need help with your RFM just PM me. I'll open mine up and verify anything you need.

I just looked at mine. It's a Ducksan. The comparable connecter on mine has two black wires. Yours is most likely a WG.

P1010001.JPG P1010003.JPG

I'll check a WG monitor at work tomorrow. I'm not a vid expert but that just doesn't look right. There won't be any monitor references in the pin manual, they are seperate

I was running 1.5 with an added RAM stick and never experienced any slow downs you described.
I have never heard of an instance where added RAM slowed a PC down so I would recommend it.

If you do not see any external tags or decals the chassis manufacture and model number will be on the chassis board itself. It could also have some markings on the neck board that is plugged into the rear of your CRT tube. Mine had a Samsung monitor with a Duckscan chassis.

A lot of people say the Duckscan chassis is a turd but I went thru mine and it was bulletproof and produced a great image on the display .

If you have never worked on a CRT tube display, chassis or neck board you want to BE SURE to discharge the CRT tube before fooling around with it. Not hard to do and not dangerous to do either. Be aware that the Ducksan chassis has a fuse mounted on the chassis (soldered) on.
Its possible to blow this fuse and the capacitors on the chassis board NOT discharge when the power is switched off. If this fuse it "good" when the game is turned off the capacitors on the chassis discharge to ground. If this fuse is blown some of the chassis caps still hold a charge and will bite you when touched...I know this.

The plug is most likely the degaussing coil. Where do the red and white wires go? Trace them, if they go to a coil that goes around the tube then it is the degaussing coil. Hard to say why it was unplugged. - Barry

Whoa! I definitely like the chrome trim.

If you need help with the monitor I suggest going to KLOV and posting something in the monitor tech section. People are typically really helpful there.

is this the proper ram to use to upgrade the computer in revenge from mars?
ebay.com link: ws

What do these pin 2000 machines weigh?

I think they are only 360lbs

I would love to know this as well. I need to upgrade my ram on RFM. Your link takes us to a removed item though.

Why would you need to upgrade your RAM?

Jaz

I'm not sure why the link won't work. here's the item no.
140874364234

jaz:
I believe that the machines were only shipped with 128MB of ram (remember, we're talking 13 years ago). according to the spec sheet, the motherboard has 2 slots which can accommodate 256MB (each)

like any pc, the more ram that you have, the less swapping in and out of memory that has to occur

I pulled the pc out of my revenge tonight (which was shockingly clean with absolutely no dust or dirt at all :O) from what I can gather, the pc's came with a whopping 64MB of memory (one 168-pin pc100 8ns dimm containing 4 16MB surface mount packages)

according to the cyrix tech sheet found here:
http://www.pinwiki.com/wiki/index.php?title=Pinball_2000_Repair#Technical_Info

the motherboard has 2 x 168 pin DIMM sockets which support 16 / 32 / 64 / 128 / 256 MB DIMM modules

I'm going to take the plunge and order from the ebay link that I posted above. worst case scenario is that I'm out $10

I'll let everyone know if they work once I receive them

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I did the video amp mod 3 years ago and posted video of the before and after. Best 30 bucks I spent on it (other than the Ung mod).

here's a thread that I started for the ram upgrade
http://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/rfm-swe1-pinball-2000-ram-upgrade#post-1040728

I also have fully tested RAM modules for P2K games. I'll sell them for $10 each shipped. Again, these are fully tested to work in P2K games, no need to worry about bad modules or incompatibility with these.

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Rob Anthony
Pinball Classics
http://LockWhenLit.com
Quality Board Work - In Home Service
borygard at gmail dot com

I had the same issue and upgraded the memory and CPU. It did NOT correct the issue. Only fix is to go Nucore or turn that option (Jet Bumper Scoring) off.