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Hey everyone, my name is Alex and i am a web programmer for a local university.

Today i moved into a new house and with it came an old IGT Double Double Bonus Poker machine! It worked great for about fifteen minuets but after that it began to display errors alternating between coin timeout and door open.

This machine has me really interested, i would love to find out how to fix it, program it, mod it etc... I cant figure out how to open the box, i can unlock all of the door locks but non of the doors seem to want to budge. This model is a slanted screen with a bill collector on the top right. So any information on where i should start with this would be greatly appreciated!

Hey Alex, welcome to the site!

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I'm really short on time to give you a complete answer right now, but to open your machine:

There are two locks under the armrest -- one is a Jackpot Reset keyswitch which uses a small, double-sided 2341 key which turns about a quarter turn and then springs back.  This is used to reset jackpot lockups, display statistical screens, and also is used to change values in some configuration screens.  That is NOT the key to unlock the machine.

The other key there will turn roughly half way, and that un-latches the "hatch" of the machine.  Turn it and you should hear a click of the lock, and with the key turned lift up on the hatch (lift under the lip of the square bowl area where coins spit out to the player).

Is the error COIN-IN TIMEOUT, or COIN-OUT TIMEOUT?  They point to different areas.

Door Open errors can come from the main hatch door, the belly door (unlikely), or the bill validator door.

Again, I'm really short on time right now, but let's start with this.  Once you have the door open, press the white self-test button once (located in the lower left of the inside of the machine, if memory serves) to access the self-test screen.  The first screen should be self-test inputs, which will show you test states of buttons, door optics, coin optics, etc.  That will help you troubleshoot to figure out where your issues lie.

If you can, post a picture of your self-test input screen which might help us troubleshoot together.

HI, thanks for the reply.

I spent a lot of time with it today and fixed most of the issues. The door switch had a bad connection and i have no idea why the coin timeout was coming up but it went away after fixing the door and rebooting. I opened the mid section and went through all of the settings, it all looks great inside except the fact that open high voltage crt's scare the **** out of me.

After going through all of the settings i came across some interesting things. Firstly my bill acceptor is not working. It has some cut wires and a lot of plugs not being used. i guess this is the wrong section for bill acceptors but i would like to repair it. Next i see references in the menus about connecting this machine to another machine. can these be networked together by some interface? is there a way to run multiple games on one machine? i did some digging and found something about 5 chip wingboards. i am assuming this is a PE+.

Old electronics interest me way too much  :25-

Alex-

Well, that's good news.

Yes, I have a healthy respect for CRT monitors, too.  Don't reach in there when it's powered on, and still use a lot of caution even when it's unplugged.

Since your issue with the bill acceptor is likely a problem with its connection to the machine, and not within the acceptor unit itself, I'd post your questions here for it (instead of the bill validator categories, which are more for technical issues with the validators themselves).

If you can, post some pictures of the random wires that aren't attached to the validator, and we can try and help you figure out what goes where.

Also, if you post a picture of the MPU board in your machine (turn the power OFF always before removing or inserting the board), we can tell you what kind of board you have.  If you have a superboard, you can convert your machine to a 5-in-1 with chips alone (no hard-to-find wingboard necessary).

If you're interested in getting rid of the CRT in favor of a newer LCD monitor, check out the sticky topic near the top of this PE+ section for details on how to do it.

I'll get some pics after work tomorrow, it a little late over here (12:30) to start up the machine lol. Guess ill be taking the machine apart tomorrow, an lcd would actually be really cool considering the terrible burn in on it now.

OK here are some pics, looks like a superboard to me!  :3-

(http://img19.imageshack.us/img19/4434/boardzz.jpg)

snagging pics of the bill acceptor right now.

Yep, that's a superboard.

Take a look at the IGT Game Bible (http://newlifegames.net/igtbible/ (http://newlifegames.net/igtbible/) ).  Click on the Poker navigation at the top, and then the Multi Poker game title.  You can put any one of those game sets into your machine, and it will have the five player-selectable poker games as listed in the entry in the bible, turning your machine into a 5-in-1 game.

Awesome! i have done some rewiring on the bill acceptor and it is working great now! Is there a way to reprogram my existing chip sets? it looks like you can attempt to download images of the chips from the bible but i cant get it to download. If not were is the best place to look for those chips?

Images as in pictures perhaps but we have no copywrited Eproms on this site.

At one time we kept a library of manuals that members contributed but after a couple of douches thought this was a great source of material for their ebay sales we killed that off.

You can always post a "WTB" (Want To Buy) ad in the classifieds section of the site, and one of the vendors or members who has those chips available for sale can get a hold of you.

http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?board=112.0 (http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?board=112.0)