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MKFan4Life:
--- Quote from: Nephasth on March 16, 2012, 01:32:24 am ---What a dick. Once again you have offered no real help to someone asking for it. This is a DIY forum, your first advice shouldn't be to "find a professional to fix it for you."
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I feel better someone took that load of crap the exact same way I was taking it!
Gee, paigeoliver, did somebody kill your puppy today?
??? :blah:
BTW... I had never performed a repair on a monitor chassis involving bad traces and replacing the flyback until I did one on a chassis for a guy who frequents this forum, and I was 100% successful. I have an extensive multi-part video on YouTube of the repair with his response video of receiving the chassis back and installing it with perfect results. It's still running for about a year now. And guess what? It all happened because I had a little knowledge of my own coupled with help from people here who truly WANTED to help.
paigeoliver:
Not being trying to be a dick here, but you really shouldn't try to do repairs on other peoples equipment if you don't know what you are doing. It opens you up to all sorts of liabilities. You can end up breaking things that weren't broken in the first place, ordering parts you didn't need (which you will either have to eat or charge the person for) and it can end up turning bad later on if you don't manage to fix it or anything else breaks later.
If this was your own machine I would suggest the following. Print up the Pac-Man wiring diagram and read up on Pac-Man repair. Make sure all the interlock switches and wiring are where they are supposed to be. Check your voltages and buy a new ribbon cable. Then if it doesn't work find someone else local who has a Pac-man and test the board in their machine. If it doesn't work then buy the Two Bits ABC Diagnostic and Repair Kit and use that to repair the board. If unsure of that then send the board somewhere for a repair or exchange.
MKFan4Life:
--- Quote from: paigeoliver on March 16, 2012, 01:55:14 am ---Not being trying to be a dick here, but you really shouldn't try to do repairs on other peoples equipment if you don't know what you are doing. It opens you up to all sorts of liabilities.
If this was your own machine I would suggest the following. Print up the Pac-Man wiring diagram and read up on Pac-Man repair. Make sure all the interlock switches and wiring are where they are supposed to be. Check your voltages and buy a new ribbon cable. Then if it doesn't work find someone else local who has a Pac-man and test the board in their machine. If it doesn't work then buy the Two Bits ABC Diagnostic and Repair Kit and use that to repair the board. If unsure of that then send the board somewhere for a repair or exchange.
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Listen. Around here (where I live) friends help friends, and if they mess up we forgive them. I'm confident I can fix the machine, but I have to be honest when I talk about what I have had experience with and what I haven't. Maybe I shouldn't have said he has no experience with arcade machines. Maybe I should have said, "I have 3 cabs I have successfully performed repairs on in the past and I think with a little help I would be successful this time, where he might not." But some things should just be inferred don't ya think?
I rarely send ANYTHING off to be repaired. Heck, I'd never built a house before in 1997, but BEHOLD the structure still stands to this day and everything's in decent repair. Even the entire 2 floors of wiring I did myself have managed to function flawlessly with no fires (yet) and nobody has been killed by electrical shock.
So yes, I take STUPID risks and try to use my TINY noodle to do things on my own. Someone shoot me... lol.
No... seriously... SOMEONE SHOOT ME... drop an MK on my head... put me outta my misery.
With that said, thanks for the helpful paragraph here.
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