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FinalFight

FinalFight

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Not long picked up a Rfm (3rd one 🤣)
It's using original crt and computer but the computer has at some point been with Andy (pinballmania) and had a new power supply fitted.
Anyway when it arrived it was doing random resets (it was working great for previous owner and fully trust it was)
Anyway I decided today to take the computer out and check everything.. you can see it's totally clean inside its had a new cpu fan and new psu fitted)
Instantly noticed one side of the psu cable was not fully plugged down into the mobo.. it was shipped on pallet so guessing maybe that's caused it to jump out slightly .. anyway I thought great that'll be the problem but anyway I reseated all the parts Ram,prism ect and cleaned the connectors put it back.
It played for 20mins (bit longer than usual then reset.. so after that reset it was on playing for 3 hours straight fine until I had to shut it down and leave...
Any ideas what this could be?
One thing I didn't do was mess with the prism card I just left it complete and cleaned the pins before reseating.
Could it be old caps on the mobo? I didn't even check them tbh as everything looked really clean
It's confusing as it's staying on longer
Thank you
 
This is going to upset the purists.

I have been doing RFM/SWE1 updates for years, must have done 20.... Get rid of the monitor - sell it on whilst it is good, and change the computer.

Game boots in about 30 seconds. Is also a lot quieter. The new amp sounds better to my ears as well.

The old hardware is 25 years old.

RIght - behind the line now awaiting for firing squad!
 
Is there more info on when it reboots? ie in attract or during a game at a certain point? heavy traffic in multball etc or its random?

My guess would be its most likely prism card related. Bad motherboards usually mean no boot at all
 
Also, new computers wise, there's a new emulator system that i have been helping the author with for some time and it blows the old nucore/pinbox system out of the water. So if you decide to change it out later, wait for this system.

Proper DCS2 emulation with all correct sounds, unlike nucore for a start..
And runs on any new hardware you like to.
 
myPinballs said:
Is there more info on when it reboots? ie in attract or during a game at a certain point? heavy traffic in multball etc or its random?

My guess would be its most likely prism card related. Bad motherboards usually mean no boot at all
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Hi Jim, It's just been random during gameplay even on one ball :/ it was happening quite often like every few mins but seems to be happening less the longer it's on ... 3 hours straight it was played yesterday and didn't cut of once had multiball quite often.. That's why I started to think is it something like caps charging up and making it stay on 😆
One thing I haven't tried Is going into the test menus.
BTW I think its still on the original code so I do need to do full updates as I want to get your 6 ball kit and a shaker fitted to this one
 
FinalFight said:
Hi Jim, It's just been random during gameplay even on one ball :/ it was happening quite often like every few mins but seems to be happening less the longer it's on ... 3 hours straight it was played yesterday and didn't cut of once had multiball quite often.. That's why I started to think is it something like caps charging up and making it stay on 😆
One thing I haven't tried Is going into the test menus.
BTW I think its still on the original code so I do need to do full updates as I want to get your 6 ball kit and a shaker fitted to this one
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Physical ball lock now an option to with the upcoming v2.6 and new hardware kit

I would try putting the prism card in a different pci slot...

I have spare parts if you want to try a swapping out things, dm me.
 
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