Jamma won't boot

[Stu Dapples]

Morning all!

Picked up a cab which was sold as not working. Had a look and ran a new supply cable to the monitor, all good, happy days, £150 for a multicade!
For no apparent reason, it froze with no response. I cycled power, no it won't boot, monitor wouldn't show to start with then eventually got a none moving progress bar... Any thoughts what could cause it?

 

[TheDaddy]

Check al voltages are OK , what type of screen and multi board is it ?? Poss post some picks.

Dave.

 

[Stu Dapples]

Check al voltages are OK , what type of screen and multi board is it ?? Poss post some picks.

Dave.

 

[Stu Dapples]

Pretty sure it's over heating, runs for a while then freezes... I'll strip it out and give it a good clean, see if there's anything blocked?

 

[Retroman839]

If it’s pc based ..
Will it have a cr022 battery inside to hold the bios ?
It may be a dead battery , also could be a bad hard drive

 

[richmal]

Looks like it’s one of the old Games Family/Baby star Pentium 4 PC based units.Hdd are prone to failures on these or as Retroman says the cr022 battery has died.

 

[TheDaddy]

Sorry i missed pick , Check batter & hdd as above. I missed the none moving progress bar , as retroman says hdd need checking.

Dave.

 

[Retroman839]

I still have my games family
And I’m going to test it again soon..
I backed the hdd up twice 🤣🤣

Hdd raw will clone it..
I recommend as once it’s gone it’s gone.

 

[Retroman839]

I pulled this pc from the land fill last week
No boot - no post
CPU needed reseating and a new cr022.

I will drop a groovymame build on it and put it in a cab. 😊

Also from land fill this week ,
4 Tb drive
16 gig pc4 single stick
1Tb nand flash drive
Some psu.

Only because I had to throw a greenhouse away randomly walked past a dented pc In skip asked guy if I could use the psu .

And he let me / couldn’t remove psu..
He said just through it on your car ..
So did .. now it works

 

[Retroman839]

Stuck loading bar is bad hdd
If your lucky hdd raw will still read it
So you could clone it ,,,
You can clone optical to a ssd Also
For faster loading

 

[Stu Dapples]

Thanks all! The weird thing is it'll boot sometimes, not others. When it's running its fine but then randomly freezes after an hour or two?
Can I plug in keyboard and mouse to get onto the windows side (despite it being in Chinese from what I see on the boot screen)

 

[TheDaddy]

I used to make loads from tips when they were council owned. Had a mate working there and i used to slip him a few quid for a beer and i had shed loads of vhs players, hifi systems (when they were trendy and expensive) , pcs and lots more. I used to repair and sell them on , made a few quid !! All ended when he left and the greedy gits took over.

I was offered an original Space Invaders 10 or so years ago for nothing of there but i was away and could not get anyone to get it for me. Ended up in crusher , gutted !

The good old days ey ........

Dave.

 

[Retroman839]

I used to make loads from tips when they were council owned. Had a mate working there and i used to slip him a few quid for a beer and i had shed loads of vhs players, hifi systems (when they were trendy and expensive) , pcs and lots more. I used to repair and sell them on , made a few quid !! All ended when he left and the greedy gits took over.

I was offered an original Space Invaders 10 or so years ago for nothing of there but i was away and could not get anyone to get it for me. Ended up in crusher , gutted !

The hood old days ey ........

Dave.

Yeh ! ..
really . Tech savvy people should be
Fixing and re purposing this stuff.
Even if it was for those less well off to have a pc at home for educational purposes & computer games of course 👍.
I was asked by Oxford council recycling shop recently as they actually not only do this . They also ofer an electrical fix bar, You decide what you want to donate if your item is fixed,
Fixers are volunteers.
It was popular - as you can imagine
People from far and
Wide asking can you fix my stereo ?
Computer .?
Laptop etc.. this poor old boy is drowning Under all this stuff!
Oxford council bring stuff from the land fill and fill the shop up with it .
They sell it on for donations ..
It such a good shop and you can save a few £ shopping in there as well.