Try resetting the ribbon cable connectors.my LOTR has done that a little in the last few years an resetting the connectors seems to do the trick, I have just a standard dmd though.

I have the exact same problem. I also have a color DMD on my LOTR. For about the last 1-2 months the start up has done the exact same thing. It never wants to move past the *Stern Pinball* and progress to the prior score display.

I've found colordmd to have excellent support. Did you contact them? There is no reason this shouldn't work just fine. Why give up?

My LOTR has the LE code and has never had a single issue like this. (shaker, PAL chip etc)

I see you have a tspp, have you tried swapping the dmd controller boards between games to rule out controller board. If you move everything to tspp, do you get stuck on same screen or does everything work? I just installed color dmds on both these games last week and they work as they should. I run 10.02 code.

The game code shouldn’t matter I don’t think. I’d do the swapping with tspp.

I had the color dmd installed on my LOTR LE and never an issue....

Does anyone have a COLORDMD LED installed in an LOTR? I’m hoping there’s no problems with this as I just bought an LOTR and I pulled the colorDMD LED out of my BSD to put in it. As far as I know, all I need is the SAM/ Whitestar installion kit to make it work. It will have 10.0 code.

I have zero problems with Color DMD in LOTR — it’s on route, in competitions, a PAPA circuit event, it’s perfect.

I’ve had a really bad problem, still unsolved, of a similar nature with DE Star Wars. But LOTR has been great.

Mine had that issue too. Unplug your PotD mod.....fixed it for me. Not sure what that mod is doing to the 12v, either drawing too much power or adding an unwanted signal.

I have. It looks absolutely gorgeous, and I've never had any issues.