So, I bought a Firepower a while back for a few hundred bucks that wasn't booting up correctly in the hopes of fixing it up and selling for what I have in it to a friend who doesn't have a pin and whose favorite game is FP. What I'm finding is that I can get it to boot up every once in a while by pressing the reset button on the CPU board and turning the game off and on immediately after that. But it still does a lot of random stuff. Like sometimes it will play an entire game, and other times it will just die during the middle of a ball, meaning that I have to restart the game. Other times, I can't get it to boot up at all. It never boots up correctly when just turning the power switch on. So, my question is, do I pay a pinball technician to come figure out what's happening, or would I be better off just buying whole new CPU and driver boards and swapping them out myself? I don't have any idea how to work on boards, so that's why I'd have to call someone. Can I still get these boards and from where and how much are they? Would that take care of all this randomness?
Thanks for any advice