Re: Tempest

Never stopped Atari shipping them like this, but yes, tempests are notorious for having gold sockets, tin legs...

Andrew Welburn (mobile)
www.andys-arcade.com

On 11 Jul 2012, at 23:37, Rodger Boots <rlboots2@gmail.com> wrote:

> If reseating EPROMS fixes it for a while you probably have either gold pin chips in tin sockets or vice-versa. I had games that did this weekly because of this. DON'T mix the metals.
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> On Jul 11, 2012 3:55 PM, "Kevin Moore" <talon.k@gmail.com> wrote:
> Agreed, if you are having problems that are fixed by re-seating eproms every month, then they have most likely lost or are loosing tension. Either that or your sockets/ and or eprom legs are corroded or dirty.
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> I've personally not had any issues with the original gold double wipes, but the single wipes they used suck and should always be-replaced.
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> As for which eproms contain game data, I think it's pretty much spread through the majority of them.
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> On Wed, Jul 11, 2012 at 3:46 PM, Chuck <chuck@localsurfer.com> wrote:
> I would just replace all the sockets instead of reflowing them. I lot of games had cheap sockets in them that failed over the years. It will drive you crazy chasing things like that again and again. If the interconnect cable is still the IDC connector, I would replace that also. I think Bob Roberts sells a kit for that.
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> On Jul 11, 2012, at 4:19 PM, Robert Bayes wrote:
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>> I have a Tempest game that (surprise) has been difficult to keep running. When it fails, I'll pull the boards out, remove all the socketed proms, clean them and the sockets and reseat them and, it'll be good for another month or so. Last time, I was seeking a more permanent solution so I reflowed all the solder connections on the prom sockets and the interboard connectors. It worked for a couple of months but now, it has failed again. I know it's the proms again because the self test works fine. It's just when I switch to game mode that the screen goes blank.
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>> Two questions:
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>> 1.) I don't have a memory map so could someone suggest to me which proms contain the game software? I don't want to bother those proms that are still working by reseating them again.
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>> 2.) Would replacing all the proms help? I mean, besides the external connections do proms actually fail where they become flaky? I've always thought that proms either work or they don't--not that they can only work sometimes.
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>> Thanks.
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Received on Wed Jul 11 18:47:42 2012