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**Video Poker, Keno, Slots, 21** Gaming machines => BALLY Game Maker => Topic started by: br549autosales on December 12, 2016, 06:17:17 PM

Title: Game Maker won't boot up and play anymore
Post by: br549autosales on December 12, 2016, 06:17:17 PM

I recently replaced a battery and did a clear, then set up denomination, etc. on a Gamemaker. It worked fine for about 3 weeks and now when I turn it on, I'm not getting anything on the screen at all and it won't coin up. The monitor seems to be ok, power wise but nothing else, no sounds, no touchscreen response, nothing, lol! Any ideas on this?

Title: Re: Game Maker won't boot up and play anymore
Post by: rickhunter on December 12, 2016, 06:55:28 PM

I would check the power supply.

Title: Re: Game Maker won't boot up and play anymore
Post by: Badbaud on December 12, 2016, 10:05:38 PM

Are all of the green lights lit on the front of your board?

If so check your power supply voltages with everything plugged in and powered up.
Attached are the test points on the silver power supply.

Title: Re: Game Maker won't boot up and play anymore
Post by: br549autosales on December 13, 2016, 07:13:37 PM

The only green light that is on is the +24v, the other 3 are not lit up

Title: Re: Game Maker won't boot up and play anymore
Post by: rickhunter on December 13, 2016, 09:26:55 PM

Open up the power supply, you probably need to recap it.

Title: Re: Game Maker won't boot up and play anymore
Post by: Badbaud on December 13, 2016, 10:20:57 PM

The 24V is generated with a Full wave bridge and a large capacitor tied to the main transformer.
The +5, +12, and -12 voltages (the other green lamps) is produced via a small switching power supply module inside the power supply box.
It is cheaper just to replace this module than trying to troubleshoot the bad one.
There is a sticky somewhere on this site, placed by me, that tells you where to purchase a replacement module for under $20.
I think it is in the Bally 5500 section.
Find that, order one, and be done with it.

Title: Re: Game Maker won't boot up and play anymore
Post by: br549autosales on December 13, 2016, 10:44:05 PM

Thanks guys, it was the power supply, I just robbed one out of another machine that I had, I will repair the bad one from the instructions from above.