Murray
Akari's Big Brother
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I have a 4-slot that (mostly) miraculously survived being underwater a couple days during a flood. I had to replace the backup ram to get it to boot and play again but it now does that quite nicely.
Unfortunately, it now kills the battery within a day or so of powering off the cabinet. When I turn it back on, all the soft dips are lost and when I go to reset them and the calendar, I find that the calendar is counting up the time at an incredibly fast rate. Once I reset the calendar, it works correctly until the cabinet is powered off.
This is new behavior. Before the flood damage, it could go weeks or even months on a single CR2032 and not lose anything.
So I have a couple of questions:
Unfortunately, it now kills the battery within a day or so of powering off the cabinet. When I turn it back on, all the soft dips are lost and when I go to reset them and the calendar, I find that the calendar is counting up the time at an incredibly fast rate. Once I reset the calendar, it works correctly until the cabinet is powered off.
This is new behavior. Before the flood damage, it could go weeks or even months on a single CR2032 and not lose anything.
So I have a couple of questions:
- Is there anyone in the US that does repairs? I know of a few that used to but it seems everyone has retired.
- If not, where is the best place to start troubleshooting this? What tools should I have? Right now I have a decent soldering iron and basic hot air station, an Xprotolab Plain scope of questionable utility (3.3v inputs on the logic analyzer but I could probably add level shifters), and a DSO138 scope (very questionable utility).