Re: Re: Tron troubleshooting/repair

On Thu, 07 Jun 2007 21:17:42 +0400, you wrote:

>> While I have no specific problem (it doesn't work, specific enough? LOL)
>> ATM, I was hoping to gather some FAQs/URLs for Tron related diagnosis
>> and repair info. I have some time to work on this and it's about time

>cables between the boards are crap,

        YES! Every MCR-series game I've ever worked on, those flat-membrane
ribbon cables are either shot to hell, or only step away from it.

        My preferred method for replacing them is to get 50-pin SCSI cables and
cut them apart to make new cabling. (A seven-device SCSI cable will have
eight 50-pin connectors on it, and can be cut apart to yield four segments
with a connector at each end.) Note that it needs to be a 50-pin SCSI,
since the MCR-board connectors are either 23 or 24 pins wide; a 44-pin IDE
cable won't be wide enough. (The MCR connectors are also *single-row*
connections, not dual-row like the SCSI cables, so pay close attention to
which rows "pin 1" is actually on when plugging them in!)
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Received on Fri Jun 8 00:23:35 2007