My MVS just blew up!

I turned on my arcade machine to play my MVS.. Suddenly, there was a quiet "bang", and the game refused to work. Trying again, I'm now faced with a garbled screen, and my MVS won't play games, nor go onto the system check, with the grid.

Is this common, or is this a freak accident? If so, is there any way to fix it? Sorry I can't be very specific with the contents of the screen, but that is all it is- A garbled mess.

THank you very much in advance.

Wow. I wouldn't think that's any kind of common problem. Hmmmm. Not sure what could have caused it. The garbled mess you see might be because the Neo Geo PCB is damaged. If you have another PCB you can try in the cabinet, I'd start with that to see if anything will work in the cabinet. I know that most Neo PBC's have a slightly different JAMMA pinout, so if your cabinet is a 2 or more slot, it may NOT be a good idea to throw in a JAMMA PCB with mono sound into a cabinet wired for stereo. If you have another spare Neo Geo PCB, that'd be ideal to try out. Hope this gives you someplace to start. Good luck with it.

First thing to do is to get the pcb out and see what is actually blown. It may be a psu problem and not a pcb problem. As there was a noise when it died you should beable to find a damaged part on the pcb quite easily if the problem is there.

Raz

Razoola said:

First thing to do is to get the pcb out and see what is actually blown. It may be a psu problem and not a pcb problem. As there was a noise when it died you should beable to find a damaged part on the pcb quite easily if the problem is there.

Raz

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I was kinda thinking about that too. Could it be his battery perhaps? I'm not sure, but I thought you got an error message when the battery is dead. I've never had anything on a PCB make a bang noise before.

I've had a 4 slot do that too me... it was handling power incorrectly and it just blew.

-Nick