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Does this board look salvageable?

Alan Syson

Alan Syson

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Battery damaged Data East mpu
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If so who’s best to tackle it?

Cheers, Alan.
 
I have done a worse one, trouble is it's always worse than it looks when you start stripping componets and cleaning the fragile traces!
 
Same here! (But agree that it looks salvagable....) Most of the damage is on the Grounding trace around the outside. Only a handful of components seem to be affected, however you never can tell untill you get underneath those and the sockets!

Does it actually work??? (i.e. has it been tried?). My instinct is that it will, just by looking at it.
 
ronnie63 said:
It's whitestar I think?
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It’s not my board Ronnie, trying to help someone out. Not that familiar with Stern/DE stuff but I do believe it’s whitestar which I know are pretty much unobtanium.
 
Paul said:
Same here! (But agree that it looks salvagable....) Most of the damage is on the Grounding trace around the outside. Only a handful of components seem to be affected, however you never can tell untill you get underneath those and the sockets!

Does it actually work??? (i.e. has it been tried?). My instinct is that it will, just by looking at it.
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Not my machine Paul and it’s in Spain. It won’t boot.
Even offered free accommodation if I’d go over and look at it but as we have a house full of rescue animals that’s a non starter.
 
Paul said:
if it's in spain probably best to chat to the guys at STRPinball in - they undertake board repairs i believe
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Paul. The board’s in my hands, machine’s at his holiday home. Guided him through board removal, sharpie/take pics etc.
Got to be easier getting it repaired here, wouldn’t have a clue who to contact and can’t speak the lingo.
 
Yes, it's repairable. I've repaired a lot, lot worse than that. As others have said, it is a Whitestar MPU fitted with T3 roms.

Whilst I'm not against repairing it, I prefer to have a game (or a test rig) to test it in and at the moment I have no Whitestar games (or test rig) at SWL.
 
If he is not in a mad rush I will do it, I have 2 Whitestar games here assuming it's compatible with Xfiles or jurassic park? I still have some parts I ordered for mine, also would advise him to order new ribbon cables just in case
 
Remembered I posted about this a while back with a video of the non booting machine.
The fount Peter @Moonraker correctly deduced battery damage.

T3 problem

Bit of a long shot I know but here's a short vid of a T3 having issues. The machines owned by a bloke whos pins I look after, he's clueless on pin maintenance, Problem is it's in Spain! Anyone care to take an educated guess as to the problem? Cheers, Alan.
www.pinballinfo.com
 
Just received this from Alan , made a brief start, as you can see the ram socked is bad !


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Not seen this mod before! Anyone hazard a guess?

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So the rot always ends up worse than it looks as see a few tracks that will need mending!
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Cheers Paul, I have done far worse, that one drove me round the bend! But I have better tools now and more experience and you can do it in drips when your in the mood
 
Turns out it was salvageable thanks to @ronnie63. Video was taken after the board was put back but things still weren’t 100% but after some international toing and froing over the interweb a badly seated ribbon was found and now fully working.
 
Alan Syson said:
Turns out it was salvageable thanks to @ronnie63. Video was taken after the board was put back but things still weren’t 100% but after some international toing and froing over the interweb a badly seated ribbon was found and now fully working.
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Nice one I love a successful repair👍
 
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