Pole position arcade...pink screen of death...

[Nerd Of Nerds]

GRRRRRR!!!

i just got a BEUTIFUL pole position arcade machine...upright...

it was in my parents garage for a while and they decided to move it upstairs (where i live...i'm 16)

They had professional movers do it and aparantly they did a damn good job moving it from our garage up a flight of stairs...

they didn't hit anything from what i heard...

and now all i get when i plug it in is a big pink screen...i'm guessing it was the movers...if it can't be fixed then someone is going to lose their balls over this...

[Ken Layton]

Pole Position is a very power consuming game. The gameboard edge connectors like to burn/pit/tarnish causing loss of power to one or the other (or both) boards. This is less of a problem on the ones that have been converted to a 15 amp switching power supply. Sometimes these dirty edge connectors cause the power supply board to fry a resistor or two. This can happen on it's own so don't blame the movers. Is it possible that there could be a quarter or two or maybe a loose screw rolling around inside the cabinet that when it was moved may have fallen across something it shouldn't?

Sometimes the fuse down on the big power chassis blows that feeds the power supply boards. The original one that causes trouble was a 20 amp (yes that's right a 20 amp) fuse. Atari issued a service bulletin years ago to up that to a 25 amp fuse (you can get these at an auto parts store).

[ChadTower]

Could also be as simple as in the jostling, one of the connectors loosened enough to cause a bad connection, frying the same type of transistor.

Either way, Pole Position is a hard one to keep working.  They barely worked new.

[RayB]

ALWAYS, always inspect the interior of an arcade machine after a move like that. Check the main board connector is snug, and that nothing else is out of place/disconnected.