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Aussie Pinball Forums => General Discussion => General Pinball Discussion => Topic started by: PinPal on March 24, 2011, 10:07:34 PM

Title: Pinball Tip
Post by: PinPal on March 24, 2011, 10:07:34 PM

I had a small bug creep into my Williams Getaway this week, when I got to multiball mode the CPU would crash and re boot (switch off and power up).  ^&^  I trobleshooted it tonight and went over every connector, unplugged and re seated them including the ribbon cables. Now when I get back to multiball mode the game does not crash anymore  #*#  Unplugging and reseating the connectors cleans the pins and deters bugs from creeping in to the game.

Title: Re: Pinball Tip
Post by: pinnies4me on March 24, 2011, 11:13:25 PM

Quote from: PinPal on March 24, 2011, 10:07:34 PM

I had a small bug creep into my Williams Getaway this week, when I got to multi ball mode the CPU would crash and re boot (switch off and power up).  ^&^  I trouble-shotted it tonight and went over every connector unplugged and re seated them including the ribbon cables. Now when I get back to multi ball mode the game does not crash anymore  #*#  Unplugging and reseating the connectors cleans the pins and deters bugs from creeping in to the game.

+1, resistance build up and/or simply loose connectors are a great place to start whenever odd behaviour starts.