PE+ Blue Screen after moving machine.

[markhart]

I moved a PE+ Upright Double Double Bonus Poker yesterday.  It was working fine, move went smooth, no sudden drops or anything.  When I tried it today at the new location I am just getting a blue screen.  I removed the board and reseated it several times, I checked for stray coins before plugging it in, fuses all good. Any guesses of what went wrong or what I should try? Thanks

[knagl]

Does the game still work?  ie. if you put a coin in, can you hear the coin-in sound and when you press deal, does it seem to deal the cards (and light up the hold/discard buttons)?

No guesses as to what happened, but it might be worth your time to unplug the machine, pull the monitor out, pull the MPU board out, and check that all the wiring harnesses that plug into the motherboard are firmly seated in their sockets.  Before you re-insert the MPU board, look at the pins and see if any are bent/broken.  Reinsert the board firmly, then put the monitor back in and see if that made any difference.

After that, do you have another PE+ MPU board you can try to see if something decided to flake out on the board when you moved it?

[markhart]

There were no bentg pins on the connector, I checked that.  The game lights up but the game itself does not come up.  The BV oir coin comparitor is not active.  My next step was to pull the power supply unit and see if a coin ended up somewhere that I can't see.  There were about 15 nickles floating around the bottom of the cabinet that I cleaned out before plugging in the first time after the move.  I have to leave town for a couple of days so it will be a few days before I jump back in. Thanks,
Mark

[markhart]

Update.... I checked all of the connectors and everything felt secure. I wiggled the wiring harness on the floor of the machine behind the hopper and the game came on.  I wiggled it some more and could not get it to malfunction again. I did not see any loose wires.  Also the #5 hold button was working intermittently and I found a loose ground wire on the button assembly.  Wire was touching but connector slipped off the pin.  Everything working now.  Mark

[knagl]

Glad to hear it's all working.

For what it's worth, those ground wires on the buttons don't do anything.  Literally.  The metal pins on the buttons where you attach the ground wire go into the plastic of the button.