Fort 1 Blue Screen?

[rilaw]

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? 

[cowboygames]

maybe check battery voltage?

[rilaw]

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..

[sardox]

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?

[rilaw]

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..

[Belbtech]

You might try looking at;
http://newlifegames.net/nlg/index.php?topic=255.0
it deals with known problems in Fortune Pokers...

Good luck...

God bless,
Mike><>