Hello all, I have a Six Million Dollar Man I am needing to burn some new Eproms for. The board had 9316 Roms originally. I am wanting to burn 2532 Eproms for U2 and U6. I have the jumpers changed for 2532 already. Can someone tell me do I just combine U1 and U2 and burn them on a 2532? Then double up U6 image and burn to a 2532? I tried this and the board would not boot. When turned on the led just comes on and stays on solid. I rechecked the jumpers and they are all right. Don't know if I did something wrong or what. When the original 9316 were in the board it would boot fine but a few things did not work right. I borrowed a friends board out of his machine and everything worked perfect in my machine. Working on the board after doing everything else I came to the conclusion that the Roms had to be bad. I did notice when I combined the U1 and U2 together the new file said 3kb both U1 and U2 are 2kb so my new file should have been 4kb right? Any ideas on this issue? Thanks

I combined them in command prompt in windows (DOS) or what ever they call it now. Under properties the U1 and U2 combined file shows size on disk (4096 bytes). Under properties the doubled up U6 file shows (4096 bytes). So I think they are right. I was just looking at what it showed in the file not going to properties of each file. I did just verify that the 3 Rom files I am using are good on Romidentification. Here are the pics of the board. Jumper 4 to 12 is on the back. Let me know if you need anything else. Thanks for the reply

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Ok what is the /B for? I did not have that in there. I had copy U1.9316 + U2.9316 U2.2532
I did not have the /B in the command. Could that be my whole problem? I am new to this and went from what I seen online. That guy was doing text files though. Thanks

The saucer did not kick out ball. Left pop bumper would activate the down post. One sling shot did not work. Right pop bumper did not work. Using my friends board everything worked great.

Ok I combined the files again using the /B Sixman being the file I directed dos to then I typed
Sixman> copy /B 742-20_1.716 + 742-18_2.716 2.bin for U1 + U2 combined 2.bin being the combined file
Sixman> copy /B 720-30_6.716 + 720-30_6.716 6.bin for U6 doubled 6.bin being the doubled file
Now when I turn the machine on I just get one real quick flash and that's it. Thanks

So with a checksum error is it possible I still don't have the files combined right? Is there a set of known working combined files for U2 and U6 out there somewhere? That way I could program them to the chips and see if that is my problem for sure? If it is my problem then I can figure out what I am doing wrong combining them. Thanks

I am using a GQ-4X programmer. I always hook up the external power even if it does not say I need it. The checksums I get from the files I created are. Thanks
2.bin- 0077DDFC
6.bin- 0075FBFC

Quench, by using the link you gave me and comparing those files to mine my U2 file is correct. My U6 file is wrong. Am I not doing something right trying to combine the same file together maybe?

I am writing these chips with the files you pointed me to now. I always double write them but I will write them 4 times and see if that helps. If not I will be pretty sure it is a board issue. The board did work with the originals in U1, U2 and U6. Just not everything worked. Maybe something happened to it since then. At this point I just don't know. I was going to ask you how you new which file was for U6. I just found the text file that lays all of it out. Ok I got it booting. I had written the U6 with the file you pointed me to. Then I tried to boot it. No change. So then I thought I will burn U2 with the new file. So in the meantime I got your reply about writing them at least 3 times. So I wrote U2 four times with the new file. Then I pulled U6 back out and wrote it two more times. Then tried it and it booted. So let me ask you would I have gotten more than just the quick flash if U6 was good but U2 was bad. I am wanting to figure out if writing the new U2 fixed it or if writing the U6 the extra times fixed it. Because the file I made for U2 had the exact same checksum as the new one. So was it just a bad write issue the whole time. Thanks

Thanks for the help. Well it booted up but everything is still the same. Some stuff just not working and the left pop bumper makes the post pull down or try to pull down if it is already down. I just don't know about connector issues because with my friends CPU everything works as it should. Maybe I need to start a new post and mark this one as resolved.

All of this is in test mode. If any difference it is noted.

Working
1. post up
9. Right side kicker Works in test mode but not in game mode
10. Drop target reset
11. Post down
12. Gate
13. Coin lockout door
14. K1 relay (flippers)
Does not work
2. outhole kicker
3. Knocker
4. Saucer
5. Left pop bumper. Does not activate Activates post down ( both test and game)
6. Right pop bumper
7. Bottom pop bumper
8. Left side kicker

All of the PIA's have been replaced with new ones. Actually U7, U8, U9, U10 and U11 have been replaced with new chips. Thanks

Quench, you are spot on. It was a solder bridge from pin 1 to pin 2. (See pic). The left and right kickers still don't work and the right and bottom pop bumpers don't work. Everything does work correctly in test mode. More trouble shooting now. Thanks

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Ok figured it out. I had forgotten that I had undone the wires to the switches of the right and bottom pop bumpers because they were shotgunning. They would not do it right away the machine would have to be on awhile. So after testing with my friends CPU i thought i will undo them until i get my CPU figured out. I soldered them back on and turned the machine back on and in a little while they started shotgunning like crazy. So I cut the ceramic disc capacitors off all the pop bumper switches. It has not shot gunned since. Now everything works as it should. Do those capacitors need to be replaced or is fine to just leave them off? Thanks everyone

I will replace the caps. If anyone on here is good at combining .bin files and would be Interested in helping me on another project I have going please PM me. I am trying to do a one chip conversion that I found on the net. I would like someone to combine the 8 .bin files I have and send the file created back to me. So i can compare yours to the one i made and see if it is correct. I wont go in detail about it on here. I will mark this as resolved. Thanks everyone

barakandl thanks, let me ask you would it make a difference in the way it copied them if you had a space between the files and the plus sign like the bottom one. I am trying to make sure how this works so I know I should have a file that will work. I have verified the 8 files as good. I have checked and rechecked the modes on the board but If the file is good for sure then I can investigate other things. I combined the files using the bottom command line.

COPY /B 1.BIN+2.BIN+3.BIN+4.BIN+5.BIN+6.BIN+7.BIN+8.BIN 1-8.BIN
COPY /B 1.BIN + 2.BIN + 3.BIN + 4.BIN + 5.BIN + 6.BIN + 7.BIN + 8.BIN 1-8.BIN