I figured I'd bring this up incase anyone has fixed it.

I have a Munsters pro with the audio popping and now after a 1.03 update (from 1.02) ZERO game audio/sound. Game is probably just shy of warranty and so the cpu replacement is a maybe. Has anyone replaced/tested the audio dac/circuit and fix this issue?

If they warranty the board, I assume they'll want the old one shipped back :/ I'd be curious to replace the parts and see.

Any who Stern's spike system is just a modified/custom IMX6 dev board. I find that interesting. We used a few imx6 and imx8 kits. Very capable cpu's. I'm very curious why they didn't have a hdmi out though, as that is pretty standard, maybe they didn't think streaming would get big when designing theirs.

there is a splice harness that then has a hdmi breakout board. the IMX6 dev kit has and cpu can support hdmi, so in reality, stern just has to break the hdmi off on a new spike board, but that is more cost from what they currently have, so if they just made a kit they could keep the current board set.

If they had a trade in replacement program, it would make it easier the swallow a cheaper board replacement. And then their engineers or bird manufacture could take the failed units and figure out why and what failures to fix them but.... they’re probably cheap for stern to pump out and the failure rate is low enough to get through a warranty period.

Still hoping we can get more members to diagnose/fix so we can support as a community instead.

Lots of schematics etc. Pretty excited and happy they have released this. If my munsters cpu board was not replaced. I'd be swapping parts!

I was hoping they would retro fit the spike 2 to work for spike1 stuff so it wasn't eol so early. I forgot to look at GB if it was the same NXP imx6 as a spike 2 or different setup

I think this is spike 1 (picture)? cpu was integrated into the board so there was probably lack power/features for them to expand.

IMX6 which i think is the exact cpu they use, was EOL a while ago, however there was a huge stock of it. I would assume we would see a spike 2.X or 3 w/ imx8 soon ish.

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The board from my pinballs only converts USA to uk, but I’m having an issue with a USA game failing the detection on boot. So either the cpu was flashed for uk or the detection circuit is bad. Would be great if there was a board with a dip switch to choose as ive now found this issue is decently common from stern :/