Midway 4-Player 25" Dedicated Video Game manual Software Update Troubleshooting Table

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Enter Monitor Tests Menu. Watch Crosshatch

Picture is too narrow

Maladjusted WIDTH

 

Screen while adjusting WIDTH pot for best

 

pot

 

picture. You’ll find this pot on Monitor Remote

 

 

 

Control Board, behind coin door.

 

 

1. Enter Monitor Tests Menu. Watch Crosshatch

Picture is too short

Maladjusted HEIGHT

 

Screen while adjusting HEIGHT pot for best

 

pot or damaged

 

picture. You’ll find this pot on Monitor Remote

 

vertical circuit

 

Control Board, behind coin door.

 

 

2. If pot has no effect, service vertical output circuit.

 

 

 

Enter Monitor Tests Menu. Watch Crosshatch

Picture seems shifted to one

Maladjusted

 

Screen while adjusting HORIZONTAL POSITION

side

HORIZONTAL

 

pot for best picture. You’ll find this pot on Monitor

 

POSITION pot

 

Remote Control Board, behind coin door.

 

 

1.

Substitute working yoke.

Keystone-shaped picture

Shorted turns in yoke

2.

Have service bureau converge monitor.

 

 

3.

Retest monitor.

Software Update Troubleshooting Table

 

SYMPTOM

CAUSE

 

REQUIRED ACTION

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

You skipped steps or

 

Return update components to kit, reinstall

Update didn’t work

performed them out

 

original parts in cabinet, and try process again.

 

 

of sequence.

 

 

After update procedure,

Installation error may

1.

Inspect for bent or broken pins.

 

screen reports lower than

have damaged

2.

If you have another kit, try it.

 

latest version

device.

3.

Ask your distributor to check your upgrade ROM.

 

 

 

 

No Attract Mode screens

Mismatched boot

 

Boot ROM and disk version numbers must

 

 

ROM update version

 

match. If necessary, replace boot ROM or disk.

Board indicators illuminate,

and hard drive.

 

 

 

but screen is completely

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

blank

You installed boot

1. Be certain that boot ROM device resides in

 

 

ROM in wrong

 

 

 

proper socket.

 

 

socket.

 

 

 

2. If necessary, move boot ROM to proper location.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

1. Install disk ROM. Only use upgrade socket for

 

 

You installed upgrade

 

hard disk drive updates.

 

 

ROM in wrong

2.

Load ROM contents onto drive.

 

 

socket.

3.

Remove ROM from game.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Upgrade ROM

1. During game play, upgrade ROM must be

 

 

remains in VGM

 

 

 

empty. Switch off VGM.

 

 

(video game

 

 

 

2.

Remove upgrade ROM.

 

 

machine) during

 

 

3.

Switch on VGM.

 

 

game play.

 

 

4.

Retest Game Mode.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

NOTICE: Someday, software updates for your VGM (video game machine) might become available. These upgrades may improve your VGM’s performance or add new VGM features. Such upgrades tend to appear sometime after factory first releases VGM. Contact your distributor for information about updates.

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Midway 4-Player 25" Dedicated Video Game manual Software Update Troubleshooting Table