Got a DK jr board last weekend. It powered up and played but the background was missing and many sprites were corrupted. The picture was also shifted to far to the top of the screen, I couldn't see the high score or DK's head. Pulled the board and the horizontal pot on the video board was busted. Tried fixing it, but no joy. The pot's resistance is 30K - 50K, so I removed it and soldered in a 42K 1/2 watt resistor into the holes left by the outside legs. Worked great, the picture is right in the middle. And there is still a horizontal adjustment on the monitor to fine tune it. FWIW, if the horizontal pot's connection is open, the screen image is too high. If you jumper the connection with a wire (zero K resistor), the image is too low. The background and sprite issue was fixed by replacing the EPROM's found at 3N and 3P on the video board. They both had multiple broken legs on them. Now I just need to figure out how to leave both boards mounted in the cab, but switch back and forth. And no, I don't want to DDK the jr. board. It messes up the sound in DK. Sean McLachlan MIS Manager LithoFlexo grafics inc. 801.484.8503
Ok, so, as the resident Newbie (and apparently, I'm causing confusion on RGVAC being the second Chris Hardy), I'd like to ask a question. How many of you have Eprom burners? If you have them, where did you buy them? Thanks! Chris On Wed, 4 Aug 2004, Sean McLachlan wrote:
Got a DK jr board last weekend. It powered up and played but the background was missing and many sprites were corrupted. The picture was also shifted to far to the top of the screen, I couldn't see the high score or DK's head. Pulled the board and the horizontal pot on the video board was busted. Tried fixing it, but no joy. The pot's resistance is 30K - 50K, so I removed it and soldered in a 42K 1/2 watt resistor into the holes left by the outside legs. Worked great, the picture is right in the middle. And there is still a horizontal adjustment on the monitor to fine tune it. FWIW, if the horizontal pot's connection is open, the screen image is too high. If you jumper the connection with a wire (zero K resistor), the image is too low.
The background and sprite issue was fixed by replacing the EPROM's found at 3N and 3P on the video board. They both had multiple broken legs on them.
Now I just need to figure out how to leave both boards mounted in the cab, but switch back and forth. And no, I don't want to DDK the jr. board. It messes up the sound in DK.
Sean McLachlan MIS Manager LithoFlexo grafics inc. 801.484.8503
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On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:02:33AM -0600, Chris Hardy wrote:
Ok, so, as the resident Newbie (and apparently, I'm causing confusion on RGVAC being the second Chris Hardy), I'd like to ask a question.
How many of you have Eprom burners? If you have them, where did you buy them?
I have a pocket programmer I bought from someone on RGVAC.
Would you recommend it? On Sat, 7 Aug 2004, Pete Ashdown wrote:
On Thu, Aug 05, 2004 at 12:02:33AM -0600, Chris Hardy wrote:
Ok, so, as the resident Newbie (and apparently, I'm causing confusion on RGVAC being the second Chris Hardy), I'd like to ask a question.
How many of you have Eprom burners? If you have them, where did you buy them?
I have a pocket programmer I bought from someone on RGVAC.
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It does the job. I purchased it from someone who subsequently disappeared after it arrived and I asked the question, "Where's the software?" I eventually had to pay for a new software license, but at $35 it wasn't too bad. On Tue, Aug 10, 2004 at 12:26:15AM -0600, Chris Hardy wrote:
Would you recommend it?
I have a pocket programmer I bought from someone on RGVAC.
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