We grabbed a new (refurbed) sys11 MPU board last minute to get DINER working for Pinfest.
Major thanks to the Pinfest NLP guys and @pinballmania to swapping the board in and assisting with the errors.
The issue is, most of the time it doesn't boot up, you get the WPC test bong noise and U10 PIA failure. If you turn off and on a few times the game boots but instead of the test bong you get a sound effect from the game, which is not expected behaviour. The old board and my other sys11 does the test bong on every boot.
Andy and NLP guys seem to think it's the u10 socket, it could be dirty ? If U10 itself has failed or has issues would it still boot intermittently?
We got the board from @BrianSoton and he's been great. It tested and worked fine on his test rig and his own game and is happy to have it back to look at and attempt to resolve. But if it's something simple or cheaper than the postage to send back I may as well have a go. Plus I'm less likely to lose all the great high score from the players at Pinfest if I take a look at home as it still has batteries.
diner is a SYS11C Game but the board isn't a 11C, not sure which it is but it has the sound area populated. I'm not sure if that's an issue.
We are taking Diner to the UK Open in 3 weeks so would be good to solve this before then.
Is it worth trying a replacement 6812 IC? Where can I get them, Andy is out of stock and I need a couple anyway. eBay only seems to have ones that ship internationally. Unless there's an equivalent more easy to find IC I could use instead?
Major thanks to the Pinfest NLP guys and @pinballmania to swapping the board in and assisting with the errors.
The issue is, most of the time it doesn't boot up, you get the WPC test bong noise and U10 PIA failure. If you turn off and on a few times the game boots but instead of the test bong you get a sound effect from the game, which is not expected behaviour. The old board and my other sys11 does the test bong on every boot.
Andy and NLP guys seem to think it's the u10 socket, it could be dirty ? If U10 itself has failed or has issues would it still boot intermittently?
We got the board from @BrianSoton and he's been great. It tested and worked fine on his test rig and his own game and is happy to have it back to look at and attempt to resolve. But if it's something simple or cheaper than the postage to send back I may as well have a go. Plus I'm less likely to lose all the great high score from the players at Pinfest if I take a look at home as it still has batteries.
diner is a SYS11C Game but the board isn't a 11C, not sure which it is but it has the sound area populated. I'm not sure if that's an issue.
We are taking Diner to the UK Open in 3 weeks so would be good to solve this before then.
Is it worth trying a replacement 6812 IC? Where can I get them, Andy is out of stock and I need a couple anyway. eBay only seems to have ones that ship internationally. Unless there's an equivalent more easy to find IC I could use instead?
