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Author Topic: Stuck on bootup screen. What causes it?  (Read 2632 times)

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Stuck on bootup screen. What causes it?
« on: April 12, 2005, 11:49:05 pm »
Ok, what does it mean when an arcade game powers on, and is stuck on the screen with all the scrambled graphics...like its getting ready to boot up but it never does?

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Re: Stuck on bootup screen. What causes it?
« Reply #1 on: April 13, 2005, 11:56:58 am »
It means there's a problem with the game.

It could be anything.  You didn't post what the game was, or the error you were getting, so it's really hard to help here.

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Re: Stuck on bootup screen. What causes it?
« Reply #2 on: April 13, 2005, 01:41:11 pm »
It means there's a smurf inside chewing on the PCB. A few D-con Smurf Motels
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Re: Stuck on bootup screen. What causes it?
« Reply #3 on: April 13, 2005, 03:14:16 pm »
It means there's a smurf inside chewing on the PCB. A few D-con Smurf Motels

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Re: Stuck on bootup screen. What causes it?
« Reply #4 on: April 13, 2005, 03:50:26 pm »
a history lesson?  and i thought this board was useless for anything but building arcade controls...

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Re: Stuck on bootup screen. What causes it?
« Reply #5 on: April 13, 2005, 05:23:40 pm »
A couple of games. One is a robotron. It just stays on that jumbled screen.

Another is a Dig Dug that was doing this, then eventually stopped powering up at all. So it is worse.

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Re: Stuck on bootup screen. What causes it?
« Reply #6 on: April 13, 2005, 10:36:33 pm »
My Digdug shows very briefly what looks like a background scene (like 1/4 second of time), then goes to the ram test.

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Re: Stuck on bootup screen. What causes it?
« Reply #7 on: April 14, 2005, 01:59:29 am »
Have you checked the power supply voltages on them yet? If the Dig Dug got "worse", that'd be the first thing I would check.

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Re: Stuck on bootup screen. What causes it?
« Reply #8 on: April 14, 2005, 08:36:18 am »
Jeeze, I'm sorry.  That Robotron is irreversably damaged.  I'll get it out of your house, so you don't have to deal with it anymore.