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Title: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: hotlsot on May 24, 2017, 02:05:55 PM
I have 5 enhanced boards here that I've removed the battery and U16 and they all have the same symptom. When inserted back into the machine the red light flashes and the second yellow light flashes. None of the boards will clear, the 2 top yellow lights flash alternately when I install the clear chip, almost as though the ram is bad. It is a bad board not a power supply, I can install a known good board and the machine does fine, has to be the boards. Anybody have a clue as to what to do to fix these boards?
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: hotlsot on May 25, 2017, 09:09:53 AM
Could I at least get a (in your best Bones from Star Trek), she's dead Jim ......... then I could lay these poor pitiful boards to rest.
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: Jim on May 25, 2017, 09:24:37 AM
are the daughter boards and software chips good?  do they play on a known good 1270 board?

I have 1270 boards available, if you are in need. Tested by me, in a machine, complete with all the software EXCEPT  the game chip. the varta and U16 removed, new coin battery. 

Jim
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: hotlsot on May 25, 2017, 09:45:10 AM
The daughter boards are good, I've swapped and confirmed. The software is also good again I've swapped and confirmed. It just seemed weird that I would all of the sudden come up with 5 of these dead, they were in a load of machines perhaps the casino swapped good for bad. Wouldn't be the first time I've seen that. I was hoping there may be one last trick in the bag.
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: qbert on May 25, 2017, 09:58:51 AM
Coin battery at 2.8V or above?
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: hotlsot on May 25, 2017, 10:28:04 AM
yes, brand new coin battery at 3v.
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: cowboygames on May 25, 2017, 10:54:56 AM
What VS chip are you using? Seems like I read somewhere that it matters
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: hotlsot on May 25, 2017, 10:58:44 AM
I'm using 598 version chips. Did not occur to me that could be the problem.
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: hotlsot on May 25, 2017, 12:20:59 PM
It's not a software problem. Threw a set of 363 at all five boards and still have the same condition. I've been at this since the fortune one days and I think this is the worst board IGT produced. Seems the engineers were drawing up board plans on cocktail napkins at 3 in the morning.
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: qbert on May 25, 2017, 01:27:01 PM
Cowboy was talking VS chip not SG
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: hotlsot on May 25, 2017, 01:49:38 PM
oops, the vs chip is an x1 (vs011gx1)
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: cowboygames on May 25, 2017, 02:52:53 PM
Version chip is good. Any pin or socket problems on the MPU's or motherboards?
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: cowboygames on May 25, 2017, 02:55:45 PM
Sorry, you already tried known working MPU's, so motherboards are good. Any chance there's a short across the pads where you pulled U16 from the board? Do you know if any of the boards worked before you modified them?
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: hotlsot on May 26, 2017, 09:23:02 PM
These boards all come in with dead bad looking batteries, so rather than replace them I just did the U16 mod. So I really don't know if they were working or not. I'm pretty careful when I pull the U16 so no short across the pads. I just really don't know if anything can be done with them.
Title: Re: 1270 enhanced board failure
Post by: cowboygames on May 26, 2017, 09:34:19 PM
Don't remember ever reading where someone resurrected one, sorry
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