I had difficulty with loose connection on the pins on the pc cables. But mine is in a episode 1 so it was at the junction point (I believe dedicated rfm has a longer cable going all the way thru cabinet instead of junction).

You sure there isn't a touchy cable end maybe?

Are you sure memory and/or CPU are fully seated? Thought I remembered someone mentioning reseating processor once....though I know not the most fun areas to be messing with on the rare parts...

Ram just plain flaky? Like maybe even a bad solder or trace on ram somewhere?

Is beeping an option in the bios?

I wasn't sure Bios settings for a cyrix board; Also thought it may have been turned off by someone (or even set by Williams), but I wouldn't know why if it doesnt have a speaker.

I have seen a pc motherboard in the past that seemed flaky and would sometimes work after messing with various cards/ram/etc. Don't recall exactly what, but turned out inserting things onto MB was flexing MB enough to make or break some component(s) with poor solder on the MB itself.

I'm sure you did but, did you use decent low ESR caps? I.E. not some knockoffs off ebay or some cheapo general use caps?

Only asking because I was thinking if they were cheap caps and had been installed a little while now, maybe they took a beating with machine running for long periods (longer than at home say) at a show/event started flaking already.

Not really my first thought, but wanted to throw extra ideas out there.

You may have already said so, did you reseat the processor yet?

Would love to see more people chime in with other probs they have solved.

If you didn't use low ESR high quality caps, I would think it would work, just may not hold up as long as originals. Possibly a delicate trace or cold solder joint near new parts? Or a just plain defective new cap??? It happens (rarely).

I see both sides of that one. Kinda worries me messing with it too. But also, may be easier than tearing it all apart and inspecting entire board too...idk.

But if it eventually boots, sounds possible to equally be bad cap or trace/joint/connection as you said.

Taking to a show not working?

I see those are the higher 105 degree caps. Thats good. Not sure if they are low ESR ones or not.
Did Ed list as low? He sells both.

Missed that it stayed stable I guess, sorry.

Thought you mentioned gettinf them from Great Plains;maybe not.

Hope it stays goin for you at show
Cool game for someone to bring since it isn't the easiest to move.