As an actual pro tech on Merit games with 31 years experiance I can tell you to simply go to Merits tech support web tech support/games page and to troubleshooting and theres a list of tech alerts for boards, hard drives and monitor fixes. You can also call them direct at their tech support hot line. I own about 18 of their games and repair and sell them still even tho I,m semi-retired now
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Theres a VERY good board repair source on ebay. His name is Dave under Megatouch store. DO NOT attempt to repair a board if you don't have serious experiance doing so you,ll be
. You can easly "toast" a board
!! I have the equipment to. Even changing a cap on them takes serious knowlege how to without damage to the board. I have a HAKKO 470B desoldering and a 936 soldering station and know how to use them correctly. There's tricks to use them correctly and I was shown by a electronics proffesor @ a local collage. No, I don't take outside board repair work. Dave does and anyone bad mouths
him they are clueless !! When I was the service / route manager and owned 40% before they sold out ( I took the parts,equipment and wharehouse stock in trade as my payout) in Islamorada in the keys of the biggest route from Marrathon to Homestead I used him exclusivly as I was to busy to repair boards.
I do now but still use Dave when I have a
*##@&
* board driving me nuts. He WILL NOT take calls. Email him for info to send a board from Ebay.
Merit has a page that crosses software with keys.
Merit games are FAR superior to the Williams version which pretty much copied Merits games. Earning wise Merit blew them not just outta the water, outta the galaxy !! Every one we repalced a Merit with we immediatly got complaints.
Tech wise the same.
Given Williams got in late and went out of business
should kind make it clear.
My Wife won't even THINK about selling hers and when it has problems you can guese which one is #1 on my repair list !! I keep a spare board and harddrive on hand just for hers
!!!