Re: Please help with Battlezone board

From: Jon Raiford <raiford_at_mindspring.com>
Date: Thu Nov 02 2000 - 08:26:23 EST

I had this same problem before and it turned out to be the big blue capacitor in the transformer assembly. Check your +5v on AC and see if it registers anything.

Jon

At 10:48 PM 11/1/2000 -0800, you wrote:
>>Watchdog is resetting in play mode.
>[...]
>>Address lines from the CPU all show activity as they should.
>>I'm pretty stuck on this one, please help if you can.
>
>Does it run at all? (Can you play for a while, or does it just perpetually reset when in play mode?)
>
>(If it plays for a while and dies, I'd watch the power supply closely with a meter or scope. My BZ was glitching during play-- turned out the +5 rail was browning out to around ~3.6V from time to time. I shotgun debugged it with a spare ARII and it's been fine ever since...)
>
>-Clay

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