I’ve got a Revenge from Mars that I bought a couple years ago. Got it cleaned up and working with some pretty serious repair to the driver board, but it’s been running great since then. It’s been rotated over to my buddy’s place, and he’s been enjoying it for a while, and then one day, he says he went upstairs and it was fine. When he came back downstairs, it was dead.
Had him do some digging, and he confirmed that the power supply was good (5V, 12V supplies good, etc).
Now I’ve got the computer here on my bench, and I’ve pulled the prism card out, and I’m able to get into the BIOS. I’ve replaced the 5 electrolytic caps as I’ve seen recommended in a few places.
With the Prism card out, it appears to try and boot, but of course, there’s nothing to boot from. With the prism card in, the monitor is completely dead. The little LED on the prism card is on steady.
So I guess I’m looking for any additional suggestions.
Is the prism card LED supposed to be solid, or blinking?
Will I be able to see ANYTHING on a modern LCD monitor, even if it’s working, or do I need to get an adapter to use that kind of monitor, just for testing? Or do I need to get the computer back into the game to use that monitor?
Is it possible that the BIOS settings have defaulted to a value that it’s not trying to boot off the prism card at all?
Note that the power supply appears to have been replaced by the previous owner, and I replaced the CPU heat sink fan a couple years ago.
Any help would be appreciated. If I can’t get this working, I’ll need to explore the Nucore/Pinbox option, but for now, I’d prefer to see if I can get this computer running.
Thanks,
Jeff