WPC 95 AV boards failing..wayne?

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I'm just wondering if and hoping that Wayne will make us replacement
wpc95 av boards. I allready got 2 local friends who have a av board
with a broken asic (dead sound)..unrepairable

Hopefully this isn't going to be a trend, or all our beloved pinballs
of the wpc95 era are going to be broken without repair possible cause
of the broken asic.

I have bought a spare asic, just in case...

 

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>>I'm just wondering if and hoping that Wayne will make us replacement
>>wpc95 av boards. I allready got 2 local friends who have a av board
>>with a broken asic (dead sound)..unrepairable

Are they sure it's the ASIC? More often than not the ADSP has contact problems.
Just yesterday I bought back a DCS from the dead by just resoldering it. They can
try by pressing hard on it. If it boots it's the DSP.

>>Hopefully this isn't going to be a trend, or all our beloved pinballs
>>of the wpc95 era are going to be broken without repair possible cause
>>of the broken asic.
>>
>>I have bought a spare asic, just in case...

Me too.

Does anyone know what's the going rate for dead unhacked AV baords? Would like to
buy 2 to 5 for me and two friends.


Regards
Frank-Rainer Grahl
(frgrahl@REMOVE.ME.gmx.net)

 

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Frank-Rainer Grahl wrote:
>>>I'm just wondering if and hoping that Wayne will make us replacement
>>>wpc95 av boards. I allready got 2 local friends who have a av board
>>>with a broken asic (dead sound)..unrepairable
>>
>
> Are they sure it's the ASIC? More often than not the ADSP has contact problems.
> Just yesterday I bought back a DCS from the dead by just resoldering it. They can
> try by pressing hard on it. If it boots it's the DSP.
>

Trust me, I've fixed plenty of DCS and A/V boards and if you've fixed a
DCS board that had a cold solder joint then consider yourself *very*
lucky. 🙂 I have never seen a DSP failure on an A/V board (plenty on
the DCS booard though). The glue logic in the A/V ASIC that deals with
the DSP fails resulting in loss of audio but the video continues to
work. A classic tell-tale sign of this is the video continues to run but
the LED fails to strobe and remains off (along with the audio).

In every case that an A/V ASIC has been available and exchanged on the
board, it's cured the audio loss problem when all other problems have
been eliminated. Also, if you get RAM errors on the A/V board, it's
usually the same root problem.

>
>>>Hopefully this isn't going to be a trend, or all our beloved pinballs
>>>of the wpc95 era are going to be broken without repair possible cause
>>>of the broken asic.
>>>
>>>I have bought a spare asic, just in case...
>>
>
> Me too.

It's been a trend for some time now. 🙂

>
> Does anyone know what's the going rate for dead unhacked AV baords? Would like to
> buy 2 to 5 for me and two friends.
>

Enquiries have been made into the future availability of Wms ASICs and
we're waiting for information. My suggestion would be to hang on to
those faulty A/V boards because there is a possibility they may get
their voice back.

Clive
---
Board repairs, EPROMs, servicing...

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(864)238-1707
http://www.coinopcauldron.com

 

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>>Trust me, I've fixed plenty of DCS and A/V boards and if you've fixed a
>>DCS board that had a cold solder joint then consider yourself *very*
>>lucky. 🙂 I have never seen a DSP failure on an A/V board (plenty on
>>the DCS booard though). The glue logic in the A/V ASIC that deals with
>>the DSP fails resulting in loss of audio but the video continues to
>>work. A classic tell-tale sign of this is the video continues to run but
>>the LED fails to strobe and remains off (along with the audio).

I was lucky with one A/V board from a friend. Cold solder joint on the DSP. Did
boot up when pressing on it. Wouldn't have touched the Asic because I do not have
the equipment. Same with two DCS. The third one had a broken trace. Looked like it
was a problem out of the factory. So I wouldn't completely rule this problem out.




Regards
Frank-Rainer Grahl
(frgrahl@REMOVE.ME.gmx.net)

 

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>Enquiries have been made into the future availability of Wms ASICs
and
>we're waiting for information. My suggestion would be to hang on to
>those faulty A/V boards because there is a possibility they may get
>their voice back.

Good to know that action is being taken to keep those newer machines
repairable. Lets keep the fingers crossed. Please inform us of future
developments...thanks!