Re: Major Havoc Plays Blind, Monitor Works Fine...

From: Brent <newsgroup5_at_brentradio.com>
Date: Fri Aug 10 2007 - 20:43:28 EDT

I can swap in a Tempest board or another working MH board, and they both
work fine. So I know it has to be something with the board.

Thanks,

Brent
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From: "Christopher X. Candreva" <chris@westnet.com>
To: <vectorlist@vectorlist.org>
Sent: Friday, August 10, 2007 5:22 PM
Subject: Re: VECTOR: Major Havoc Plays Blind, Monitor Works Fine...

> On Fri, 10 Aug 2007, Brent wrote:
>
>> I have a Dedicated Major Havoc boardset that plays blind. The Monitor is
>> good, as I have tested it with other games. What could be the cause of
>> this?
>
> Well, working back from the monitor -- wireing harness, card connector,
> card
> fingers, op-amps, D/a converter, anything in the vector state machine, and
> the voltage regulators (if MH has one, I don't recall.)
>
> Oh yeah, and the AVG chip.
>
> Generally you start by verifying all connections, then all power supply
> voltages. Some Atari boards have regulators on the game board, I don't
> recall if MH is one.
>
> Your best tool is an osciloscope on the X/Y test points. Anything there ?
> If
> both are dead it's usually going to be something up stream.
>
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