Ok Medusa folks, I am having some sudden problems with my Medusa. I had recently fixed the switched flipper lights/GI from a broken wire, but that popped loose again due to a less than stellar soldering job, which I have since fixed properly and is working fine. While I was under there, I discovered that the shield of the gods plunger assembly bracket was loose and the upper right slingshot was so loose, it was being held on with threads of one of the three screws!! I tracked down one of the two missing screws inside the cabinet and could not find the other (even using a mirror and magnet looking under the power board and under the wood slats), so I used a spare screw I had and tightened everything back up and all was well.
I noticed a couple of feature lamps out and I powered down and wiggled the connector on the lamp driver board and that brought them back to life. Everything seemed normal at this point, so I put the game back in place and went on to fix another game.
Then last night, a friend and I went down to play a couple of games, the game booted and we had 2 players set and he launches ball 1 and starts in the upper playfield and as soon as the zipper flippers closed in, the flippers stopped working (trapping the ball right at the zipper flippers) and the pf display started showing random garbled numbers. I quickly powered down and waited a second and tried again, but this time, the GI was on, and I heard one chirp from the game, but then nothing happened. It would not finish the boot sequence. I decided to leave it alone for the night and mess with it when I got home from work.
Tonight, I fired up the game and it booted fine! But then all of a sudden the flippers stopped again mid game. I powered down and checked all fuses and they tested fine out of the game. I powered on and then the MPU would not boot and the MPU LED was on solid. I powered down, waited a min and tried again and it booted fine! Now it always boots, BUT the front left pop bumper won't fire and the out hole switch is not activating when a ball drains. Once in awhile, it will discover the ball and advance to the next ball in play, but at this point, it's not working normally and I'm not sure where to look next.
What would cause a pop bumper to just stop working (I checked the switch gap and with the game on and pf propped up, I could not get the pop to fire when fiddling with the switch. Same with the out hole switch. I cleaned it with 91% alcohol on a business card and it won't activate like it should.
I'm stumped!
Thank you for any guidance!!
Ryan