Re: Asteroids Loud Buzzing

At 8:35 AM -0500 3/30/07, Robert Gonyer wrote:
>Hi everyone,
>
>My Asteroids restoration is 99% complete and
>it's coming out great. One problem basically
>remains - there is a loud buzzing coming from
>the speaker during play. I can still hear the
>sounds underneath the buzz, but only faintly.
>The loud buzz does vary with the volume knob- If
>I turn it all the way down, it is gone. When I
>turn it up, the buzz is 10 times louder than the
>game. The monitor and AR have been capped, and
>I replaced big blue trying to get rid of the
>buzzing, and that didn't help. Any other ideas
>off hand?
>
>I also need to get rid of the speed up mod, but
>I'm sure I can find that via searchŠ.
>
>Thanks for any help!!!

Check for toasted connector pins on the edge
connector. This will cause poor continuity and
can lead to noise, flickering, etc. If the edge
connector gets warm or hot to the touch after a
few minutes turned on then this is your main
suspect.

John :-#)#

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