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DarkKobold

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Help! I-Pac is dead!
« on: August 07, 2003, 09:39:40 pm »
Help me!
   I just built my controls... And my I-pac was working, but a bit flaky... now it just doesn't respond at all. On closer inspection, the port to the PC is loose! Has anyone dealt with returns to london???? I don't want to have to buy a brand new I-PAC!

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My games: Tapper, Asteroids, Cocktail-MAME, Tron, ROTJ, Tempest, Star Wars (not working)
My wants: Warlords Cocktail

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Re:Help! I-Pac is dead!
« Reply #1 on: August 07, 2003, 10:23:54 pm »
Email Andy - he's awesome to work with and fantastic in product support. ;)
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Re:Help! I-Pac is dead!
« Reply #2 on: August 07, 2003, 10:45:20 pm »
OK, I may be stupid, and I may have voided my warranty... (if I had one) But after 10 minutes of freaking out and sweating, I used my EE skills to figure out the problem. Apparently, the ground had come loose, and so the board wasn't responding at all. So, with my trusty soldering iron, I made a quick fix. Hopefully Andy won't call me a moron, and tell me I shouldn't have tried to fix it myself. But, the dork in me had to figure it out. I wouldn't have slept tonight  ;D
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Re:Help! I-Pac is dead!
« Reply #3 on: August 08, 2003, 01:43:21 am »
dude, you are my new hero. i cant frickin believe i didnt see that. i did plug it all in and wiggle the plug while pushing buttons but it didnt work that way.
the 2 ground connections were broken in a perfect ring. fired up the iron and resoddered them. works fine now. thank god im so lazy and hadnt sent it back yet.


Andy, you should check your Ipac 4's, you seem to have gotten a bad batch.
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Re:Help! I-Pac is dead!
« Reply #4 on: August 08, 2003, 03:09:37 am »
and btw, why is P3 down and P2B6 both 'K' ???
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