I have a Whitewater that I need to finally tackle a sound problem.
The problem is this:

The game always starts fine. But after a couple of games in the sound will cut off completely and just to to a high pitched wooooo sound.
A lot of times I can switch the power back off and on again and it will fix itself. But not always.

The game has a new CPU board and all new data cables.
I am guessing I need to start replacing parts on the sound board. If that is the case what are the usual suspects that would cause this?
Or might the problem be something else I have just not thought of.

I have thought about that. But $400 for a sound board is not in the cards right now.

Thanks Chris.
Already did all that . Brand new ribbon cables installed.
Did not help.
Hoping my F-14 board you repaired comes in tomorrow though.

Thanks for the info Chris.
By the way the F-14 board has arrived. (no time to install yet)

Anyway on the sound board for my Whitewater.
Here is a photo I copied from your pinwiki site. I indeed have a pre DCS sound board.
I noticed that one of the stickers that covers a sound rom window had fallen off. (I have since taped it off)
Are the two sound roms the ones you want me to swap places? Or were you just referring to ordering new sound roms and replacing these?
And yes this sound board is paired with a new rottendog CPU. The batteries had leaked to bad to save the original.
Not sure as to what chips I can swap.
Thanks.

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Little off topic, but since it is my topic...

Huge shout out to Chris Hibler for not only repairing my F-14 CPU board but then helping me diagnose what the shipping company did to it on the way back. I might have figured it out by accident but he methodically stepped me through testing and got the game to boot once again.
Thanks Chris.

Also just noticed that I have been mispronouncing your name all these years. Could have sworn it was Hilber. Ooops.
Got it now though.

Maybe my brain is just off right now. But what spare board?
Did you mean spare socket?

And are any of those chips still available at a reasonable cost?
Usually moving IC chips back and forth can lead to two broken games. lol
I do have an Addams Family and a Twilight Zone I could pull from, but if they are cheap and available I would rather just order new ones.

After finally pulling my sound board out of the game, the problem became evident.
I have a totally burnt capacitor.
If I put the part number in Marco's web page I get a hit but since the one in their photo looks nothing like the old ones one the board I thought I would ask the experts.

The Capacitor in question is C26
The part number is listed as 5041-09031-00
It is listed as a 1 ufd TANT in the manual.
Will the one in this Marco link work for this part?

http://www.marcospecialties.com/control/keywordsearch;jsessionid=B0F7A1644F12D5C44D26C7EA865BA070.jvm1?SEARCH_STRING=5041-09031-00

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Thanks Chris.
I am going to go to my local electronics shop first. They will either have it in stock or be able to get it in by Monday.
I can see the + mark on the one next to it. Guessing it will go in the same direction since they are next to each other?
I will clean up the board and look for markings on the board as well.
Unless you can already tell by the photo which end the positive side will go to.

That is awesome guys.
Thanks.

And what an amazing graphic that is.
Well done sir.

Marco has already shipped my parts. Man those guys are fast.
Found enough stuff to make the shipping worth it.
Went ahead and got 10 of the little capacitors as it made them only .39 cents each.

Update.
My parts just came in due to hurricane Harvey.
However even though I ordered the capacitors from Marco that I linked to above and got approval that they would work they just look way to large compared to what is on the board now.
I took a couple of photos to show the size difference.
Since modern parts are usually smaller I wanted to ask before squeezing this thing on the board.
So should I use this or not?

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Got it.
Thanks

And the hits just keep on coming.

Decided to replace the two largest caps since I had already purchased them.
Had the iron out so why not.
Only to discover this bad boy hiding behind them where you could not see.
It is labled C46 but if I'm no where near my manual to see what it is.
Arrrrgh!!

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Found an online PDF of manual.
Looks like C26 and C46 are the same part.
Never do I get that lucky. Lol

Thought so as well.
But it cleaned up nicely.
Got all the work done, but I'm at work now so I will install the board tonight and keep my fingers crossed that it works and no "magic smoke"

Well good news and bad.
Got my sound card installed and it works!!!
However I could not give it a good burn in test because all of a sudden out of the blue my Bigfoot head just keeps spinning to the left non stop.
Are the Whitewater gods against me?