Sound/Audio Issues with Getaway HS2

[flippnaussie]

I have been playing a few games now I'm on holidays. While I left the machine on there were some strange noises coming from it. attraction type sounds.
After starting a game the sounds playing were all wrong, rolling over switches gave the wrong noise, and no ZZ top playing.

I think its time for some capacitor replacement, Audio PCB only or do all the PCB's?

Am I wrong alltogether?

Simon.

[MartyJ]

Are you getting any errors / BONGS on startup?

I'd try resetting the ribbon cable first before anything else.

Then try the sounds in test mode.

[flippnaussie]

The sounds start up ok, then fade over time.
On startup the tests work fine.
After it fails the tests fail...

Simon.

[Homepin]

I doubt it's capacitor related. My bet is also the ribbon cables - they are over 20 years old and were never made to last this long in a harsh operating enviroment.

Rather than "guessing" I would swap the sound board (first) with a known good one - or send it off to Beaky for checking. Replace the ribbon cables next - they are inexpensive really.

More damage can very easily be done by "fixing" things that don't need fixing.

[ktm450]

Try gently pressing the ICs on the sound board, I had a similar issue with sound stopping and weird noises from different parts of the game at the wrong times, where one IC just needed reseating, by gently pressing on them I worked out which one had the bad contact.

[flippnaussie]

Thanks KTM.
It seems to have done the trick, for now. I could not find my IC remover so I could only press them into the sockets not remove them and clean the pins with some deoxit. Another job for later.

Simon.

[ktm450]

No probs, glad it worked