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The Firepower Club

By wiredoug

10 years ago


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#1250 7 years ago

Just acquired A Firepower, having some interesting problems, I get different issues almost every time I fire it up, this is what I have seen so far on start up, display shows memory loss, try to get it in attract mode, won't go, batteries are good, sometimes LEDs flash once go out, do the switch test, lower one stays on, sometimes LEDs stay on, Sometimes LEDs flash once go out, do the switch test nothing happens, no LED. Have replaced batteries, IC's 12, 13, 16, and 19. Any help would be great, displays have shown various strange things and makes a weird sound that tapers off to silence when first fired up,
Thanks,

#1255 7 years ago
Quoted from mof:

Don't know your familiarity with system 3-7 flaws/weak points -- but -- I I've had some recent success starting with:
(assuming it's an original mpu/driver board) Get all that potential flakiness from heat/motion/flexing/movement/transport out of the way first...
1. Reflow all header pins
2. repin 40 pin connector
...Am I forgetting anything?
-mof

Thanks, did all those already,

#1256 7 years ago
Quoted from Schwaggs:

So any one of these issues can happen when you start it up? Nothing seems to consistently happen? Does it ever start without memory loss?
1) Make sure you have all the boards mounted snuggly with screws. This impacts the ground reference between boards.
2) Have you checked the ROM and chip sockets for Scanbe sockets? If you have those, you need to replace them all first thing. They are notoriously bad.
3) Have you replaced the 40 pin interboard connector? Also notoriously bad.
4) You are chasing your tail until items 2 and 3 have been completed.
EDIT: forgot to add mof's excellent suggestion - reflow or better yet - replace all the connector pins on all the boards.
If you are ordering parts, I would get electrolytic caps for the power supply board, sound board and the 100uf cap on the CPU and Driver boards.

Thanks, it never starts without memory loss, I will replace the ROM sockets and see what happens, the 40 pin has been done already, so have the connector pins, thanks for your input,

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#1349 7 years ago
Quoted from Schwaggs:

With the power off and batteries installed, check for battery power between pins 8 (ground) and 22 (Vcc) of the 5101 RAM chip. Did you remove the stock battery holder and install a remote battery holder?

Thanks for all your help so far, now that I have replaced all the ROM sockets my problems have changed, when you first fire the game up the LED's blink once then go off, will not go into attract, push the lower button for self test on MPU board, no LED's come on, checked for waveforms on the CPU, getting activity, I have removed the stock battery holder, checked the voltage on the 5101 and replaced the 5101. I will start again on it tonight, I have a Leons test ROM, a O scope and DVMs at my disposal, thanks again, I can't wait to get this game running again,

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