LW Pin2DMD Stays stuck on Pin2DMD Boot Screen

I just purchased a color dmd for my lw3. I know literally nothing about these displays. The person I purchased it from loaded the SD card with the files I needed. I believe there is a total of three files on the SD card. I bough the 12 volt 5 volt Data East power adaptor from Color DMD. I hooked that power adaptor up as per my photo. I ran the 5 volts to the dmd controller board and hooked up the ribbon cables. The display boots up and shows Pin2DMD data east sega but it just sits there. I tried resetting the game, swapping the ribbon cables around, i tested the dmd controller board to make sure it is getting 5 volts its like 4.8 at the controller board connector and I tested a free spot on the color dmd and got 4.7. I tried going into the dmd settings but couldn't find anything there. My searching has shown that a lot of the times when this happens a jumper is not installed right or at all. I looked on the back of the board and couldn't see any jumpers anywhere. I took pictures of the leds lit on the back of the board. If I put the display in input test it mainly stays on pin 11 but it does quickly flash between pin 11 and pin 7 or pin 17 (cant tell it changes so quickly) being close Please can someone help.

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#2 5 years ago

CMD

fatality83

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Here is a video showing how I have everything hooked up

#3 5 years ago

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lucky1

#4 5 years ago

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jjoravec

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If you are getting that far then your ribbon cables are not plugged in correctly. Try making sure all the ribbon cables are plugged in. I have the same Pin2DMD in mine LW3 and it works fine. I can reproduce your exact behavior by plugging in a ribbon cable backwards or off by 1 pin which is easy to do.

#5 5 years ago

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fatality83

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Quoted from jjoravec:
If you are getting that far then your ribbon cables are not plugged in correctly. Try making sure all the ribbon cables are plugged in. I have the same Pin2DMD in mine LW3 and it works fine. I can reproduce your exact behavior by plugging in a ribbon cable backwards or off by 1 pin which is easy to do.

I have tried reversing the ribbon cables, removing and reinstalling them, but it seemed to not make a difference.

#6 5 years ago

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Rdoyle1978

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Ok well first thing it looks like you may be conflating ColorDmd And Pin2DMD. It appears you're using ColorDMD installation instructions, so lucky you didn't blow something on the game!

Get rid of those - you have a Pin2DMD for sure. I'd source out the instructions for that display first thing

#7 5 years ago

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jjoravec

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Here is how mine is connected, then you have the connection to the main board up in the backbox.

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#8 5 years ago

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Quoted from Rdoyle1978:
Ok well first thing it looks like you may be conflating ColorDmd And Pin2DMD. It appears you're using ColorDMD installation instructions, so lucky you didn't blow something on the game!
Get rid of those - you have a Pin2DMD for sure. I'd source out the instructions for that display first thing

The only thing I used the instructions from color dmd was to see where to put their power adaptor and how to hook it up. I bought this adapator from them to power the pin2dmd. http://shop.colordmd.com/data-east-power-adapter/

I only used the instructions on how to hook up the adaptor nothing else.

#9 5 years ago

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fatality83

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Quoted from jjoravec:
Here is how mine is connected, then you have the connection to the main board up in the backbox.[quoted image]

Thats exactly how I have mine. Please check out the link to the Youtube video I posted below. It shows exactly how I have everything wired and the orientation of the ribbon cables. Maybe you will see something that is wrong.

#10 5 years ago

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Quoted from Rdoyle1978:
Ok well first thing it looks like you may be conflating ColorDmd And Pin2DMD. It appears you're using ColorDMD installation instructions, so lucky you didn't blow something on the game!
Get rid of those - you have a Pin2DMD for sure. I'd source out the instructions for that display first thing

He is using the ColorDMD DataEast power adapter to get the 12V to power the panel which is o.k. Panel is powered fine that way.
That is not the problem.

Are you sure your DataEast DMD controller is working properly ?

Please go into the onscreen menu as described here under point 3 here
https://pin2dmd.com/. Reset the settings to default first. Then set DeviceMode to DataEast again and Save Settings.

#11 5 years ago

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fatality83

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Yes, if I hook up the original DMD that was in there, it works just fine so I know the controller board is working properly. I did try changing the display back to data east and saving the settings which made no change but I didn't reset the settings to default yet and then do it. I will try resetting the settings and setting it back on data east like you described when I get home tonight and post the results.

#12 5 years ago

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Double post

#13 5 years ago

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Rdoyle1978

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Quoted from lucky1:
He is using the ColorDMD DataEast power adapter to get the 12V to power the panel which is o.k. Panel is powered fine that way.
That is not the problem.
Are you sure your DataEast DMD controller is working properly ?
Please go into the onscreen menu as described here under point 3 here
https://pin2dmd.com/. Reset the settings to default first. Then set DeviceMode to DataEast again and Save Settings.

Got it. Just wanted to be sure nothing gets destroyed!

#14 5 years ago

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Quoted from Rdoyle1978:
Got it. Just wanted to be sure nothing gets destroyed!

No worries you definitely had me double guessing how I had it hooked up lol.

#15 5 years ago

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Quoted from lucky1:
He is using the ColorDMD DataEast power adapter to get the 12V to power the panel which is o.k. Panel is powered fine that way.
That is not the problem.
Are you sure your DataEast DMD controller is working properly ?
Please go into the onscreen menu as described here under point 3 here
https://pin2dmd.com/. Reset the settings to default first. Then set DeviceMode to DataEast again and Save Settings.

Also lucky1 did you see where I showed in my video and talked about it not having any jumpers? Most of my research where people had the same problem, there was an enhancment jumper not in the right spot or not on at all. I don't see any jumpers installed on any of the pins anywhere. Should I have one somewhere?

#16 5 years ago

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tjc02002

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OP
Quoted from fatality83:
Also lucky1 did you see where I showed in my video and talked about it not having any jumpers? Most of my research where people had the same problem, there was an enhancment jumper not in the right spot or not on at all. I don't see any jumpers installed on any of the pins anywhere. Should I have one somewhere?

Good point, did you try the settings for "enhancer on" and "enhancer off"? might as well try both in the settings.

Also when you say you flipped the cable, did you flip both ends or just one end? you want to try to flip just one end. apologize as I didn't watch the video.

#17 5 years ago

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That is a EVO board which does not have the enhancer jumper anymore. Which means software setting has to be always on.
That is the reason why I want to set to default.
If setting to default and setting to DataEast does not work try Whitestar as devicemode.
Then you could also try the input test which is also described under chapter 3 to make sure
the input pins are working properly. You can contact me through PM so I get a instant notification.

#18 5 years ago

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Quoted from lucky1:
That is a EVO board which does not have the enhancer jumper anymore. Which means software setting has to be always on.
That is the reason why I want to set to default.
If setting to default and setting to DataEast does not work try Whitestar as devicemode.
Then you could also try the input test which is also described under chapter 3 to make sure
the input pins are working properly. You can contact me through PM so I get a instant notification.

Resetting it back to default and then selecting data east and saving it fixed it. It works great now, thanks!!

#19 5 years ago

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Great !

1 year later

#20 3 years ago

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SilverballSleuth

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I’m having a similar issue. Game stays on Pin2DMD screen and only shows display version on turn off for a split second. Data East Hook.

#21 3 years ago

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action76

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Same problem is happening on my Jurassic Park. I have reset to default and changed back to Data East with no change. Any thing else to try?

#22 3 years ago

JOE

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Quoted from SilverballSleuth:
I’m having a similar issue. Game stays on Pin2DMD screen and only shows display version on turn off for a split second. Data East Hook.

For the records the problem has been solved here https://pinside.com/pinball/forum/topic/pin2dmd-issue#post-5722078 Not a PIN2DMD problem.

#23 3 years ago

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