The annoying Gottlieb screech of death.

Could be loose IC's on board - reseat game ROM and check for tarnish on legs of IC.

I doubt power failure, start up process is locking up.

LTG : )

Good one!

Did you plug it in?

Mine used to do that too- I never figured out why, but leaving it off for like 15-30 min while plugged in would always clear it. Maybe it has something to do with a dying back-up battery.

If it is in non screech mode, it won't hurt playing it.

LTG : )

My Gladiators did the screech of death late one night, and no matter how many times we turned it on and off it wouldn't come back to life- until the next morning, and it hasn't happened since!

On my Stargate, it cuts all power when you open the coin door. By all power, I mean everything, not just the high current. I assume this is the case with all Premier games, but Stargate is the only one I've ever owned.

I'm pretty sure I know who you got this from, if the pinsider is from mid-Michigan. I know he wouldn't sell you a non-working or messed up game on purpose.

Never had a Gottlieb so I can't help you out there, but I'm guessing something simple came loose during transport/unloading, etc. Happens to me almost every time!

Good Luck!

Maybe he'd like to trade Stargate for a Johnny Pneumatic.

What is your 5 volt at on your CPU?... bottom right board....

Put away the phone for good sex later

I am a frigging gottlieb system 3 genius. I dont want to type it all out though. guessing you should just call. Its likely the 5volt hack/ mod that is needed here. Also dont ever ever ever ever removed the dmd cables or dmd power whilest teh game is on you will bork the u8 gal

Gettign started replace the 5v trim pot. I can go on and on but thats the best bet. If not slam the voltage quick and it will boot. I can tell you where you can install a cap on teh cpu board to hold the 5 volts longer to get the pos to boot.

Now that is how to start a post! I like!

I just got home and saw this post. All I can tell you is that it never did that to me even once. ???

Wish I could be more helpful. I would not keep pulling the ROM's though.... I don't think they handle that very well.

Try reseating the ribbon cables - especially between the CPU and driver board (board to the left of the CPU.) Do them all with the machine off.

viperrwk

That game had been rock solid for both myself and Astropin, and PEN before that. I'm sure something just jiggled loose on its journey, and just needs to be reseated.....

If you access to PinballNinja, he covers this somewhat common issue on Gottlieb S3 in repair #755 - good descriptions and a video.

RussMyers

The main ramp? Which one is that? I only can remember one plastic one, and it's the one the ball goes up when you launch it into play. It was fine for me, and Adam only had it for a couple months.

'Blown out' means different things to different people, though. I don't think it was cracked at all, but it might have had some hairline crack in it that I never noticed. Post some pics and I'll see if it jogs my memory. I know that Adam took a ton of pics of this game for you, and I'm surprised this wouldn't have shown up in the pics.

I've heard tales of the welds on the metal ones giving out, but the ones on this machine were perfect.

Hope everything gets sorted out for you.

-Todd

I can't even imagine what you mean by "blown out"? Can you send me a picture please.

I think James Spader did it, look at that guilty expression on his face.

Damn that Spader! And what's he holding? A giant spoon?

Fortunately Steve Young still has new ones - $52.

http://pbresource.com/Stargate.html#ramp

viperrwk

Hey Whysnow,

I never noticed that damage to be honest... I just played the game.

I'd wait to see if it impacts game play before replacing it. Because, I doubt it does.

Probably a rear end probe, wonder if he will let me use it for the camping trip?

Not at home now but I believe that mine looks the same -nothing on that brkt but will confirm when I get home. I might want to swap a few pics with you anyway I have a few empty holes on some plastics that I would like to address.

Congrats on the purchase hope everything is easy to sort out

I bought it from PEN for 1800 last fall, and sold it to Adam for 1800 in late Feb. In the mean time, Adam bought a manual, replacement decals, and a nearly non existent ROM upgrade for it (Which I couldn't find while I owned it) before selling it to you. The ramp wasn't broken as you are showing it while I had it, and I have no reason to believe that Adam was trying to get one past you on this game by selling it to you broken. The only reason I sold it was because Adam told me he wanted it.

I played it about a month ago, and it played just the way it did when I owned it, and when I helped him get it into his basement in Feb.

I helped him carry this game from his basement to his SUV on Thursday before bringing it to you, and we babied that thing getting it in there.

Sounds like a conspiracy to me.

A replacement at 50 bucks is a pretty good deal. I'll tell you, the way I am with my pins, if I knew it was broken and a 50 dollar replacement was available, I would have bought it without a second thought. I'm pretty sure Adam is the same way as me.

Just thinking back, I had an issue with the DMD that came with the pin, and I replaced that with a better one before I sold it to Adam.

Don't Gottlieb's feel solid, once up and running?

I'll tell you something about Stargate:

I hadn't missed it a bit, until we loaded it into Astropin's SUV.

At the point I realized I'd not ever play it again, I started to miss it.

And yes, O-Din. It's more solid feeling than any B/W game, for sure.

I almost sold Big Hurt, but I'm real glad I didn't. That ones a keeper. And now with a fresh flipper rebuild, it is even better.

Stargate has not been immune to pinflation I bought mine exactly two years ago at an estate auction bidding had stalled at 700 and I thought it was going to be mine untill one of our local flippers jumped in and ran me up to 900 add 10% buyers premium and another 3% for using a credit card(I overbid my cash) and ended up aroun a grand.

If that ramp was separated along that bottom edge when I had it I certainly never noticed it.

If I had you would have been fully informed. I never "over hype" the condition of my games....never.

I took close up photos of the playfield wear that was taking place where the ball drops just so you could see in detail the amount of wear that was there. In fact the pictures looked a lot worse than what it looks like in person.

I'm glad you got it working. It was always fun to trap and go for your target. Trying to make the pyramid shot from the left flipper is a nice challenge.

If you want me to shoot you some money to help replace that ramp I would be happy to do so.

Adam

Well there's something most sellers never offer!

http://pbresource.com/Stargate.html

I paid 2200 for SG less then a month ago. Pinflamation I guess. Then again it's in almost collector almost uber mint condition and has the latest rom. It won't stay inexpensive forever IMHO.

Off topic sorry.Does the latest ROM make much difference.And if so where would I get one.

Latest ROM is V5. Only difference between that and V4 is code to deal with warm boot issue. V5 can be had from Steve Young.

viperrwk

Ill go get you a picture finishing my program first should post in about 30 minutes. 7:45 PM PST now.