Arcade Collecting > Restorations & repair
Asteroids Restoration -- Hardware 100% / Starting Cab work...
mcfreak:
Okay, made the repairs from above, re-seated all chips and cleaned prongs, found one other problem which I also fixed in picture 1...
Picture 2 is the only date I could find on any chip/board. It's an Intel Chip dated 1977. I don't know if that's good or bad but it's something.
I replaced the capacitor at C34, the one that was blown completely away, with a best guess because I don't know what board it is. :dunno On power on, it that capacitor gets very hot and smoked for a short time. (until I pulled the plug). :timebomb: I don't know if I got the Cap right or not but at least its some progress. Obviously something still isn't right...
Pictures attached.
mcfreak:
Also got new Slow Blow fuses... Still blows, disconnected the secondary board, still blows...
Grrr.... :banghead: :banghead:
IG-88:
Just curious, but how in the heck do you fix those traces? :dunno
mcfreak:
Here's a pic. I did it pretty dirty just to see if it would make a difference.
This worked well back when people would use too hot of an iron on their original xboxes. I did a lot of "patch" jobs for friends that didn't think.
You basically just follow where the trace should go and bridge them with small wire, then clean up the traces to make sure they arn't touching... I don't know if this is the "right" way to do it as I am a tinker-er...
IG-88:
Ahhhh.... makes sense. Thats some darned small soldering. Doubt if my hand would be steady enough anymore.... :P
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