Alex Atkin UK

It actually boots up, the reels spin, the display cycles through the normal procedure and its only when the attract mode starts that 10p fault appears, displays for three seconds, moves to the next attract mode action then immediately shows 10p fault again for 3 seconds, thus making attract mode operate in slow motion.  I can't seem to get into test mode either.

A followup, it was the 10p error that the PSU board fixed before, it was the random resets.  What fixed the 10p error before was re-seating the connectors, although it doesn't seem to be helping this time.

This has to be false error as it prevents the machine from working at all, I can't even get into test mode, and triggers even with the coin mech disconnected.

 

What bothers me is how ALL the stepper motors get really hot which surely is not normal when they aren't even in operation?  Is some current leaking where it shouldn't be?

Unfortunately its died again today.  Hadn't used it in a while and powered it up to 10p fault.  Left it running to warm up and suddenly I hear a relay click, then a relay click, its powering up for a second then resetting again.

Frustratingly I hadn't been back here in the meantime so had missed the battery warning and of course it leaked.  I had cleaned that up a few years ago and everything was still fine, but who knows if its gotten worse over time as there seemed to be minor corrosion in places where I couldn't be 100% sure I had succesfully neutralised it.

To be fair, the 10p error is exactly what it did before so it could just be the PSU board again, but I really don't have the energy to look into it right now.  Kinda wish I could just stick a Rpi in this thing and run it off a ROM dump now as this old hardware is a PITA.

 

Indeed it should, but unfortunately when the Epoch emulation forum was created it did not pick up the setting that does that, and despite some time spent searching I haven't yet been able to work out where that setting is. The admin side has literally dozens of hooks and modules, many of which are unclear or seem to overlap.

 

At the moment, putting the article literally at the top of the front page of the root of the site is the very best I can do. The PC is being packed away today while boiler installation takes place so there won't be much opportunity to work on it properly for a week or so.

 

Edit:

I've sent out an email to 12,197 members informing them of this thread. Short of taking out a full page spread in the London Evening Standard, I've done as much as I reasonably can at this time.

 

As one of those members you e-mailed, a big big thank you.

 

I haven't been on this forum in AGES as my desktop OS is Linux so I get around to playing the fruit emulators.  This news is definitely worth keeping an eye on though, I wasn't even aware anyone was working on these newer machines.

Found someone who told me how to rewire the touchscreen, that is fine now.

I also discovered the onboard sound card was broken on this motherboard (figures both boards would be faulty) but through guesswork got it disabled and stuck a Soundblaster Live! in it.

Everything is working now apart from one thing - the sound on the videos keeps stalling and so going out of sync. Its odd as if a video is not playing the sound is fine.