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Title: Fort 1 Blue Screen? Post by: rilaw on December 18, 2010, 05:26:03 PM So... My Fort 1 was working fine in the spring, then it just sat in my garage. So, now when I turn it on, blue screen, thats it. I checked all connections, pulled the board, cleaned contacts, hit the breakers, checked voltage to the board (fine).... nothing... Any ideas? :37-
Title: Re: Fort 1 Blue Screen? Post by: cowboygames on December 18, 2010, 05:50:09 PM maybe check battery voltage?
Title: Re: Fort 1 Blue Screen? Post by: rilaw on December 18, 2010, 06:03:47 PM maybe check battery voltage? If your speaking of the battery on the board, it does not have one, never did. Just an empty socket. Worked fine with out it so I never bought one. Thanks.. Title: Re: Fort 1 Blue Screen? Post by: sardox on December 21, 2010, 04:22:51 AM Try reseating the CPU, game ROMs, CAP ROM, character ROMs and anything else on that board that goes into a DIP socket.
Be very careful if you have gold-lead ROMS, the pins break very easily. They may have migrated from the temperature changes. We know you're getting something from the MPU board, because it's throwing blue video... Sounds to me like it could be a bad CPU? Title: Re: Fort 1 Blue Screen? Post by: rilaw on December 21, 2010, 07:16:37 PM Try reseating the CPU, game ROMs, CAP ROM, character ROMs and anything else on that board that goes into a DIP socket. Be very careful if you have gold-lead ROMS, the pins break very easily. They may have migrated from the temperature changes. We know you're getting something from the MPU board, because it's throwing blue video... Sounds to me like it could be a bad CPU? OK... I pulled and reseated every chip on the board, crossed my fingers, and.....drum roll.......Blue Screen, sigh.... Thank You anyway, doh.... Guess I will have to keep an eye out for a board. I wanted to give this to my father last spring, but went through a bunch of bad sound boards and went on to other projects. So recently I figured I clean it up and just give it to him anyway, and this is what happened, can't win I guess.. Title: Re: Fort 1 Blue Screen? Post by: Belbtech on December 22, 2010, 04:08:55 AM You might try looking at;
http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=255.0 (http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=255.0) it deals with known problems in Fortune Pokers... Good luck... God bless, Mike><> |