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Offline rustalan

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RFM problem
« on: December 24, 2012, 06:00:12 PM »
Had a new battery installed on the main pc board. Started it up and the boot up was fine. Problem.... It says coin door is open when its not and not responding to door buttons at all. !@#

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Re: RFM problem
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2012, 11:07:36 PM »
Might throw this in there but obviously the motherboard was not moved.

Problem: Machine reports coin door open all the time
Solution: Check motherboard mount in Pin 2000 computer case

If your machine is reporting this, check the raised mounts under the motherboard in the Pin2k computer case.

Inside the Williams Pinball 2000 computer case, there are 6 raised, threaded metal lugs acting as mounts beneath the motherboard to secure it to the case. However, some of the replacement boards don't allow all the holes to line up. The top middle peg (closest to the power supply) can grounding out on the bottom of the motherboard where there was no hole to secure it and causing the machine to think the coin door was open.

To fix this, cut three rubber mini post grommets in half horizontally to make two small rubber doughnuts and use the six rubber pieces to create insulators for all six posts. Once it's insulated and re-secured to the mounts through the insulator/spacers you made, problem should be solved!

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Re: RFM problem
« Reply #2 on: December 26, 2012, 03:46:25 PM »
This is usually a problem with the parallel lead not being connected properly. Most of the time its where they are  joined  mounted in the back of the machine.
« Last Edit: December 26, 2012, 03:48:44 PM by Dann36 »

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Re: RFM problem
« Reply #3 on: January 01, 2013, 03:19:26 PM »
Ok after much head scratching and diagnostics with an old win 95 keyboard, heaps of cursing. Put in another DB25 cable connector  to the motherboard in the pc and discovered that the ribbon lead was on the wrong way around. So now all is good. The tech who put the battery in must have been having a bad day.  :lol:

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Re: RFM problem
« Reply #4 on: January 01, 2013, 08:47:18 PM »
well done
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