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Darksoft and I have been talking :) Thanks Pascal!

Looking for a replacement motherboard for my 246a (first-gen that plays Ridge Racer V). Also willing to buy the entire console if the pcb isn't avail separate. Thanks

Seems pretty difficult to find a 246a (racing pcb). Not sure if boards from other revisions would swap in? I was curious if RR5 would work with other revisions of 246...

Reflowed those questionable chips and still getting the same error. :/

Thanks for the reply. Not entirely sure what you mean by "look for pairs"? Also, not very versed in pcb repair but under visual inspection this transceiver looks like it has a pretty badly oxidized leg - not sure if something like this could cause the error I'm getting?

Quick update - I swapped all PCB's (minus motherboard)/Ram/dvd drive between the working and non-working unit. Still getting the same error. I'm thinking it's a chip on the motherboard? Anything known to burn out/go bad on these boards? It's the 246a ps2/namco combo motherboard. Thanks!

I recently started to get this error on boot when it gets to the initialization screen (pic). "Acsetup: buffer ram mismatch." Both systems were booting the game fine until now. One gives the error the other continues on to load the game fine. I tried swapping the ram between units, swapped...