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[WANTED] Somebody that can help me fixing a CPS2 B-Board (Xmen vs. SF)


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I recently acquired a used CPS A+B combo with Xmen vs. SF. I worked great for a couple of hours but then crashed (garbled video output) on Day 2 while playing. When I turned on the arcade the next day I was greeted (quite literally as you may notice [emoji39]) by some garbled output on the screen.

 

From what I read this will likely NOT a suicide situation, as the board doesn't show a solid coloured screen but garbled gfx output.

 

Any suggestions how to fix this myself are welcome. Otherwise it would be awesome to know if there's somebody that has a great track-record on troubleshooting and fixing CPS2 boards. I'm located in Sydney but would certainly pay for the repair incl. shipping both ways.

 

Thank you guys!

 

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I gave the the edge connector (using a pencil eraser), as well as both boards a good clean again. I also reseated them one more time. No luck =( As I already tried the setup on another cabinet, it doesn't seem that +5V is the issue.
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Seperate and reseat the 2 boards - try another A board if you have one. Ideally you need to open your B board and check to see if the battery has died, it's usually a solid colour when it suicides but not always.

 

If it's suicided, I can fix it for you by either replacing the EPROMs with decrypted code or installing a new battery and reloading the decryption keys.

 

 

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Cheers mate. I reseated the two boards a couple of times by now and also checked the battery which is still at 3.6V. I'll get another A board, hopefully by end of next week, and will see if that fixes it.

 

I'll keep you all posted on that!

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If another A board gives you the same issue, it's either a voltage issue as dragonlee said and neither of your cabs is giving enough, or a ROM or some other part has failed, but keep us posted

 

 

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Quick update. While I haven't received the other A board yet, I checked the actual voltage coming from the PSU it was connected to when it suddenly stopped failing on Day 2. It was 5.4V and 12.1V... So maybe that was a little bit too much? I should have checked that when I received the arcade a few weeks back. Lesson learned... :# I now corrected the voltage to be 5.1V and 12.1V..

 

All measurements were done while another board was connected (RPi3 + RaspberryJAMMA) and running a game... So yeah, during load ;)

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Quick update. While I haven't received the other A board yet, I checked the actual voltage coming from the PSU it was connected to when it suddenly stopped failing on Day 2. It was 5.4V and 12.1V... So maybe that was a little bit too much? I should have checked that when I received the arcade a few weeks back. Lesson learned... :# I now corrected the voltage to be 5.1V and 12.1V..

 

All measurements were done while another board was connected (RPi3 + RaspberryJAMMA) and running a game... So yeah, during load ;)

 

How did things end up? Happy ending?

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I just got another grey "A board" to make sure it's actually the A board that needs fixing. aussiekanga once offered me fixing things for quite cheap including return, unfortunately i can't pm him anymore?!
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