Scott9 my sttng started doing that last week and I ended up having to replace the green trough board and it stopped and has been working fine. Not sure if it is the same problem or if that helps any.
(I am referring to the balls keep launching)

Scott9 It was #a-17982. Green opto board. I ordered it from Marco. I had ran a test and I think opto number 1 was out I think?

Scott9 actually thinking about it you would have to figure out which board has the problem. Mine was that one but it could be the board on the other side for yours. I’m still learning this stuff so sorry I’m not very good at explaining stuff. ☹️

Scott9 no problem. Give an update when you figure out the problem.

Scott9 looks great! I just messaged a Pinside yesterday about getting some powder coating done. Thought I knew what I wanted to do and then I got looking at all the options and now I’m lost lol. To many options!

With your powder coating being dark, how well can you see it when it is in your house? I’m leaning toward a similar look but worried it won’t be noticeable in the house.

Recently moved houses and got all my pins set up with no issues except of course...ST:TNG.

So with turning it on the dmd says “ground short row 1 is stuck closed”. Also says check test menu. None of the buttons to do the test menu registers so I can’t do anything there. I don’t know/think it has to deal with it but I want to add that I had got the coin door powder coated months before and had got it all together and everything seemed fine and was playable until I moved. I’m not sure where I should start looking or what I should be looking for. Any help is greatly appreciated!!!

Correct, the buttons do not work. The entire machine was 100% working after putting the coin door back together but then when I packed it up and moved now I have the short and buttons not working. I will look at the coin door and see what’s going on with it. I checked the boards and they all look good and nothing seems wrong there.

I have NVRAM installed. I might not be following but are you saying to check all the fuses on the wpc board?

I will give all of that a try and see if i get some results! Thank you and I’ll report back soon.

Thank you! So I have been looking through all the wires and havnt found anything out of the normal. Still have no way to access menu but you might be on to something. Checking the back box there are two led not doing what they are supposed to (I think). So I circled led3 is on and led 5 is off. I havnt been able to test anything with a multimeter yet because I have lost it but getting one later today. Could these narrow anything down?

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They are led. I done more digging and read of other games with similar issues. I unplugged wires on the cpu board and was able to get access to the test menu. Going to the test shows all but one row is short. Everything on that row works great. I have reseated everything I can find in the back box and playfield. Got nothing. I’m obviously missing something but I have been through the bottom of the play field and can find nothing. Stupid multimeter did not show today so I’m hoping it is a fuse? Any other advice?

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I had a similar problem and mine was on the board that is under the playfield on the left side. I never figured out what was wrong with the board but swapped it with another machine I own with the same board and fixed my problem.

This is the board. I think you can find it cheaper other places just using that as reference

https://www.marcospecialties.com/pinball-parts/A-16998.2

Checked and the light stays on solid the whole time.

I just recently installed lx8 from previously having lx7. It is pretty easy just unplug one and plug in the other. Only tricky part is making sure all the metal tabs go in at the same time but still very easy. I feel like lx8 is great and very tastefully done. It keeps the game the same but really fine tunes everything! If you are upgrading I would just go to lx8. Hope this is helpful!