LCD Sinbad

[SMAAAARTY]

im a new sindbad adventure owner today and im having problems with the LCD screen its just blue with no animations ,it looks like its just not going into the animation mode,the lcd is on and blue and looks like only 1 pixel in the middle is not working,ive checked all the connections and all is ok ,if i press the right hand button next to the key i can see something like a bar chart with 1 horizontal red line in the middle with a small green line on the left on the lcd any ideas?,is there any setting or anything else i can mess about with to get this game lcd to work before i send it back to sender,could the shipping have nocked something off?the game works fine ,thanks for your time,
Ian ,
uk.

[millermaster1]

Ian, Welcome to Pachitalk!

Did you perform a game reset? Did you get keys?

[Chrisdice]

Welcome to Pachitalk!!!


Have you tried a full reset yet?

[SMAAAARTY]

Not yet ,i need step by step on how you do this ,i have 2 keys 1 for door and another for the switch on inside.

[millermaster1]

reset steps:

1: Open the door to your machine
2: Turn power switch off
2: Insert the reset key & turn to the right
3: Turn power switch to the "On" position
4: Hold down the spin knob for 5 seconds
5: Turn the reset key back & remove
6: Close the front door

[SMAAAARTY]

Did a reset ,number 1 and 0 on display ,still no animations .

[luckydog]

i would bet the bank on it still having a poor video connection somewhere

it should go to date screen then attract mode.

[webhead]

All these people taunting me with Sinbad this week. Looks like a nice machine, I hope you get it working!

And if anybody has one of these around WI/IL let me know.

[luckydog]

here's its much rarer cousin

Monkey Magic

YouTube - monkey magic pachislo bonus round

I wish I could have got a Sinbad pachinko when they first came out

[djcasper_bpm]

welcome to the site. you are gonna like sinbad (when it gets fixed) of all my machines sinbad gets the most play time.

[new in town]

There are two more connections to check but you have to remove the LCD screen and take it apart.

If the seller is willing to fix or replace the machine I would opt for that. It's your call if you want to check this.

The pictures below show the frame of the LCD coming apart. The 4th Pic with the 2 white arrows are the connections I speak of. Out of the two I would guess that if this is where the problem is, it's the smaller gold ribbon cable that's giving you the problem.

[Chrisdice]

the only problem with taking the lcd apart is dust getting in between the layers. at least for me it was.

[new in town]

I have a NASA "Clean" Room 80 miles south of me and "Connections".

Spoiler

Sid.
Wwhen are the April Fools Avatar Zaps going Away? My Badger Won't "Dance" while Zapped.

[Eddie]

it's the smaller gold ribbon cable that's giving you the problem.

How do you go about repairing the gold ribbon cable if it is the damaged component?

[SMAAAARTY]

Thanks for your posts,ive found out that if i pull out the left connection (white thin with about 20 fine wires) on the lower left side of the graphic card i can almost see the animations if i take it out and put it in halveway its a short cabel that goes into the right lower side of the card with the same connection ,im not sure what this is telling me any ideas?,at the moment with it halve in i can see movement on the screen (box shapes), i look forward to any ideas.

[new in town]

How do you go about repairing the gold ribbon cable if it is the damaged component?

9 out of 10 times the fault with these are at the connection points. Being this one is inside of the frame and is not "Flexed" at all the runs on it should not break.

If a run should break you can make a repair by carefully scraping the varnish off of the run a length of about 1/2 inch from each side of the break. Put a little flux on the run and lay 3 or 4 fine wires across the break on the exposed run.

Heat with a solder iron and flow a small bit of fine solder to the run and fine wires. Just enough to flow solder in the repair area.

As long as you did not expose any of the other runs, the solder will not flow to them and short out the ribbon.

[SMAAAARTY]

Phoned the seller today he is going to exchange for a working model in the next few days,thanks for your support and helpful advice.

[hanabi]

Phoned the seller today he is going to exchange for a working model in the next few days,thanks for your support and helpful advice.

That sounds like the best solution for you,

Hope you will continue to post and enjoy the Forum here

[new in town]

[outdoorenth]

Wonderful! Glad to hear you'll be getting a replacement. Hope it arrives soon.