So I spent a fair time updating the LOTR I just bought. Updated it to new quality leds, added LED OCD, a bunch of light mods, updated to 10.02 and PAL LE/Display 10.00 for the Shaker, which I added and was working fine, despite it being a little bit of a bind. All I had left to do was add a Pinsound with the newly released OST, which had got a great review - icing on the cake!
Anyway I spent a while fixing the Pinsound in, which has a piggy back board for the CPU and just a couple of connectors (speakers at CN4 and power at CN2). I *hate* fiddling with IC's, the source of many issues such as bent, broken legs all too easy.
Anyway despite reseverations, I managed to get the Pinsound working, although getting the pinsound mix to work was another matter but 3hrs or so later (using different USB's and software) I got a mix that loaded fine and worked.
And I think it's fair to say that despite a few nice samples, the LOTR mix just didn't feel right, it had music way better than the stock game, but it just didn't sit right in the game, I was a little un-comfortable about keeping it on (being a perfectionist) so I decided to remove it and go back to how I'd started the day. I did get it working for a video.
So just a small matter of replacing the connections at CN2 and CN4, remove the CPU out of it's piggy back board and put it back in the original socket it came out of.
So despite all the care and attention, somewhere along the lines I've cocked up at this last stage...
Turning the machine back on, a loud crack (F120, F123 fuses blew). Replaced those and despite power all fine, it just sits there with it's lights on, the logic doesn't run.
Thinking I've may have likely damaged the CPU, I've ordered another one at £10. I'm really hoping it's just that and not another very expensive sound/MPU board. T
he power board seems fine and I've got a v9.0 LOTR ROM and associated PAL/DISPLAY chips and will try those with the new CPU.
Bugger. Been quite a while since I caused a catastrophe, such a good run of modding and general repair.
There is one thing, you do tend to learn from your mistakes, I just wish I knew which mistake I'd made other than attempting the Pinsound thing in the first place! I knew when a piggy back CPU board was involved it could get messy.
Anyway I spent a while fixing the Pinsound in, which has a piggy back board for the CPU and just a couple of connectors (speakers at CN4 and power at CN2). I *hate* fiddling with IC's, the source of many issues such as bent, broken legs all too easy.
Anyway despite reseverations, I managed to get the Pinsound working, although getting the pinsound mix to work was another matter but 3hrs or so later (using different USB's and software) I got a mix that loaded fine and worked.
And I think it's fair to say that despite a few nice samples, the LOTR mix just didn't feel right, it had music way better than the stock game, but it just didn't sit right in the game, I was a little un-comfortable about keeping it on (being a perfectionist) so I decided to remove it and go back to how I'd started the day. I did get it working for a video.
So just a small matter of replacing the connections at CN2 and CN4, remove the CPU out of it's piggy back board and put it back in the original socket it came out of.
So despite all the care and attention, somewhere along the lines I've cocked up at this last stage...
Turning the machine back on, a loud crack (F120, F123 fuses blew). Replaced those and despite power all fine, it just sits there with it's lights on, the logic doesn't run.
Thinking I've may have likely damaged the CPU, I've ordered another one at £10. I'm really hoping it's just that and not another very expensive sound/MPU board. T
he power board seems fine and I've got a v9.0 LOTR ROM and associated PAL/DISPLAY chips and will try those with the new CPU.
Bugger. Been quite a while since I caused a catastrophe, such a good run of modding and general repair.
There is one thing, you do tend to learn from your mistakes, I just wish I knew which mistake I'd made other than attempting the Pinsound thing in the first place! I knew when a piggy back CPU board was involved it could get messy.
TZ was just a quick fuse change.