freddiefiasco
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I suck at documentation so this is as good as it gets from me.
Picked up half of a WMMT3 cab from a local merchant. Powered up, nothing on the CRT, plugged in a VGA monitor, monitor doesn't even light up. (No picture needed since nothing shows up). Just the CPU fan attached to the motherboard powered up. Namco N2 consoles are a modified version of a standard PC motherboard with a special BIOS split into two chips. More info here.
Did a complete teardown of the motherboard to assess the PC:
The only obvious damage was #3 and #5 on the motherboard.
#3 - Popped capacitor
#5 - Some sort of dried up spill
#1, #2, #4 - Caps with a black mark on them. Not sure if these were marked by someone or if the cap produced these, i don't know of any caps that produce these so I'm just assuming.
Bad Capacitor Reading #4 / Good Capacitor Reading #4 Replacement (I didn't take pics of #1, #2, #3 so you get the idea):
The Ribbon cable on the JVS board also had liquid damage:
All the parts:
All cleaned up:
Plugged in without Hard Drive/Dongle Combo:
Plugged in with Hard Drive/Dongle Combo:
It works, I'm happy.
Oops, forgot to add total cost:
$2.15USD and 2 hours of work. 30 minutes account for soldering iron heat up time. 1.5 hours of desoldering and cleanup.
Picked up half of a WMMT3 cab from a local merchant. Powered up, nothing on the CRT, plugged in a VGA monitor, monitor doesn't even light up. (No picture needed since nothing shows up). Just the CPU fan attached to the motherboard powered up. Namco N2 consoles are a modified version of a standard PC motherboard with a special BIOS split into two chips. More info here.
Did a complete teardown of the motherboard to assess the PC:
The only obvious damage was #3 and #5 on the motherboard.
#3 - Popped capacitor
#5 - Some sort of dried up spill
#1, #2, #4 - Caps with a black mark on them. Not sure if these were marked by someone or if the cap produced these, i don't know of any caps that produce these so I'm just assuming.
Bad Capacitor Reading #4 / Good Capacitor Reading #4 Replacement (I didn't take pics of #1, #2, #3 so you get the idea):
The Ribbon cable on the JVS board also had liquid damage:
All the parts:
All cleaned up:
Plugged in without Hard Drive/Dongle Combo:
Plugged in with Hard Drive/Dongle Combo:
It works, I'm happy.
Oops, forgot to add total cost:
$2.15USD and 2 hours of work. 30 minutes account for soldering iron heat up time. 1.5 hours of desoldering and cleanup.
