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Arcade Legends 1 conversion questions
pinlink:
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on September 06, 2017, 12:58:10 am ---Have you done the simplest thing to the original computer yet which is to replace the cmos battery?
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Yes, as I mentioned I have replaced the battery, and tested the power supply. Both are good. But it will not boot up in the Arcade Legends cab, or on my work table with monitor and ps2 keyboard hooked up to it. Can't even get into BIOS. A new hard drive is $150 and I don't even know if that is the issue. Could be the ram, the motherboard, etc. I just feel like at this point I should just spend the money on an old PC and a J-Pac i(f the J-Pac is even needed).
The plan at this point is to replace the AL computer with a new (old) PC and upload games to it and use the same control panel, cab, and monitor currently used for the AL. To do this I will buy a PC, hook it up in the same way the Arcade Legends computer is hooked up, power it on and hope for the best. If it doesn't work, I will probably need a J-Pac board and then I should be good to go, correct? Thanks again for all of the help, fellas!
nitrogen_widget:
--- Quote from: pinlink on September 06, 2017, 09:53:44 am ---
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on September 06, 2017, 12:58:10 am ---Have you done the simplest thing to the original computer yet which is to replace the cmos battery?
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Yes, as I mentioned I have replaced the battery, and tested the power supply. Both are good. But it will not boot up in the Arcade Legends cab, or on my work table with monitor and ps2 keyboard hooked up to it. Can't even get into BIOS. A new hard drive is $150 and I don't even know if that is the issue. Could be the ram, the motherboard, etc. I just feel like at this point I should just spend the money on an old PC and a J-Pac i(f the J-Pac is even needed).
The plan at this point is to replace the AL computer with a new (old) PC and upload games to it and use the same control panel, cab, and monitor currently used for the AL. To do this I will buy a PC, hook it up in the same way the Arcade Legends computer is hooked up, power it on and hope for the best. If it doesn't work, I will probably need a J-Pac board and then I should be good to go, correct? Thanks again for all of the help, fellas!
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did you try unplugging the power and holding in the power button for 20 secs to drain any power from the motherboard then hook it back up to see if it posts.
pinlink:
--- Quote from: nitrogen_widget on September 06, 2017, 11:32:26 am ---
--- Quote from: pinlink on September 06, 2017, 09:53:44 am ---
--- Quote from: Ken Layton on September 06, 2017, 12:58:10 am ---Have you done the simplest thing to the original computer yet which is to replace the cmos battery?
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Yes, as I mentioned I have replaced the battery, and tested the power supply. Both are good. But it will not boot up in the Arcade Legends cab, or on my work table with monitor and ps2 keyboard hooked up to it. Can't even get into BIOS. A new hard drive is $150 and I don't even know if that is the issue. Could be the ram, the motherboard, etc. I just feel like at this point I should just spend the money on an old PC and a J-Pac i(f the J-Pac is even needed).
The plan at this point is to replace the AL computer with a new (old) PC and upload games to it and use the same control panel, cab, and monitor currently used for the AL. To do this I will buy a PC, hook it up in the same way the Arcade Legends computer is hooked up, power it on and hope for the best. If it doesn't work, I will probably need a J-Pac board and then I should be good to go, correct? Thanks again for all of the help, fellas!
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did you try unplugging the power and holding in the power button for 20 secs to drain any power from the motherboard then hook it back up to see if it posts.
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No, I haven't tried that but I guess I will. Not sure what you mean exactly. Do you mean unplugging the plug from the power supply, then just flipping the power button on for 20 secs? It's just an off/on switch so a little confused by "holding in the power button". Really don't expect this to change anything, but I am willing to try all suggestions!
I will say that at one point the Arcade Legends would work when it was turned on for 15 minutes or so, then you flip the game off and on it would sometimes boot and play fine. At that point I changed out the battery, and now I can't even get it to boot by doing that anymore.
nitrogen_widget:
I thought since it was a standard PC it had a momentary switch for the power button on the PC.
guess not.
I guess you can try unplugging it then flipping the switch for a bit and then trying to boot it back up.
pinlink:
OK I am going to pick up this computer today unless you guys think this is not going to be able to run the MAME, NES, SNES, N64 games like I want it to:
HP 4000 Pro SFF.
160gb HDD
4GB RAM
Core2 e7500 2.93 GHz
Windows 10 Pro
$45