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This game is absoulutley ridicoulous.  Thought problem was in software.  Changed 4 diff. times with diff. versions of this 3-reel non-dot game.  Clear chip goes as it should with display etc. game spins reels after diag. button intiations etc. the battery is new of course.  Registers a coinj code every time, replaced ALL coin hardware with known working and same.  As a note with the conj error if you shut the machine off and pwr back up-NO display -nothing.--Back plane problem- :103-.  Have not had this much headache with any of the other williams dots/non-dots I have.  Probabably why I have it-- :25- :208-.  Thanks in advance Barry.

bump,  See who wants to help ME for a change.

Well I'm glad you gave everyone the benefit of 2 hours and 8 minutes to help you

Whoa Nelly!
Have some patience there young man!
I just woke up on a sunday morning to see this for the first time...
Not everyone gets on and logs in to NLG as much as I do so
you have to give people a chance to at least "read" your question, okay?
Barry, we would all love to help you in any way we can...seriously.

Okay,
Now -  is the power supply okay?
Funky power outputs always give out erractic computer behaviours.
Start off by dis-connecting the power supply and reading the outputs of it
with a multimeter to see if it's giving out the correct power outputs then we will move down along the line.
If the power supply checks out ok, then you gotta move down and
check out the power harness and see if the pins are making excellent contact.
Keep going down the line by reconnecting things one at a time and see how things are working out.

Remember, I do not have this game and
I know nothing about it but any computer will act silly and
have "boot up" problems if the power supply is bad, a bad wire, or a corrupted "boot up" file/chip.

Do you have a different Dotmation machine you can try the software in by chance to see if the problem follows the software or stays with the problem machine?

 Hi Barry,
   You say you changed the coin in hardware with known good stuff, I take it that included the opto boards?  When you open the door, does the coinj stay?  if these two, then I would think the main board .

Thanks,
Wayne

Thanks to everyone that pm'd and helped here.  Due to my Lack of time, Impatience with this game,  I was pretty much out of line with my posts on the issue.  I was aggrevated with the game and sorry I may have up-set anyone here with my wording on that one.  The game is repaired and working.  The problem was in cpu board.  I was using one that came with game and one that was bought from "other" for I think it was 35.00 bucks,  It was no good either.  I am not a big fan of robbing my working games but pulled one from the stamede (non-dot) set it up and it worked.  I should have known better than to "assume" the cpu's I was playing with was good.  Sorry to have wasted all your time--It is my own Fault!.  Time to some how "slow-down" in this rat-race econmy etc. ----"Stress".  -B.

Good job Powerstroke! :3- I knew you could figure it out! :89-

A older friend told me this once when I was fretting over things...
he said  "step back for a bit and come back to it later"

I go out and play a round of golf or something... :72-
You get wrinkles between your eyes sometimes? ...too much stress..."step back for a bit"...

Glad you figured it out, Barry. Sometimes these WMS can give you the fits!  :25- My High Speed credit panel is givinng me problems and I just haven't had the time nor the patience to troubleshoot it.

 Dan (tacman)