Just in case anyone was watching this out of curiosity...

I found that by removing the game PROM, turning it on, then off, then
re-inserting the chip it caused an error "bad cmos ram" which in turn forced
a reset of some kind which gave me some options and then it fired up and now
plays good as new ...well good enough for home use

JD


"Jonathan" wrote in message
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Hi all

To those with experience servicing these....I have just obtained a couple
of the older variety with the 5 spinning wheels (lucky lines and lucky
hearts if that matters), both with the same problem. A couple of seconds
after it's switched on all the wheels begin rotating and don't stop. I
assume it's performing some kind of self test, and when you shut the front
the display on the front says "power up" with a credit level of 9, a coins
played value of 5 and a coins won value of 0. I would have thought those
numbers would all begin at 0 so I'm thinking it's displaying a fault code.
I'm concentrating on the power supply area at the moment to make sure it's
brains aren't being scrammbled over noise, but I think that's a long shot
as some things are registering (i.e. missing wheel, wheel tilt, door
open/close).
Have re-socketed all ICs as well (I have seen this to be a problem in old
stuff).
All help greatly appreciated
JD
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