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Arcade Collecting => Miscellaneous Arcade Talk => Topic started by: orion on April 08, 2013, 07:59:39 pm

Title: PAC MAN on the fritz, can anyone point me in the right direction
Post by: orion on April 08, 2013, 07:59:39 pm

My Pac Man is dead, and my four year old kid is on a Wreck it Ralph kick, and wants it fixed! Lol! I don't have much experience repairing boards. It won't boot and the image matches nothing here. http://www.arcadegameover.com/pactrouble.html (http://www.arcadegameover.com/pactrouble.html). Below is a picture of the screen. Any ideas? Thanks!


(http://i611.photobucket.com/albums/tt193/orion7319/image_zpsbf527213.jpg)

Title: Re: PAC MAN on the fritz, can anyone point me in the right direction
Post by: orion on April 30, 2013, 02:18:50 am

Cleaned and reseated all the chips, replaced the z-80, the SBC, and the v ram. Nada. Could be these replacements are bad as they came from another dead board. If no suggestions, I guess I'll try replacing caps next... Just out of curiosity. What's the difference between the board type v ram and the JROK2003?

Title: Re: PAC MAN on the fritz, can anyone point me in the right direction
Post by: orion on April 30, 2013, 07:45:38 pm

Fixed it, if anyone's interested. It was one of the video chips on row 4. Funny thing is I already reseated them a couple of times and I didn't replace anything. I just changed up the order of the identical chips in that row and it fired right up.. Go figure.

Title: Re: PAC MAN on the fritz, can anyone point me in the right direction
Post by: mgb on April 30, 2013, 08:06:40 pm

glad to see you got it fixed.
also very happy to see you posted the fix in order to help others later on. :applaud:

Title: Re: PAC MAN on the fritz, can anyone point me in the right direction
Post by: orion on April 30, 2013, 08:42:22 pm

Thanks, that's why I posted the fix, hopefully it will help others!