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loading problems
#180572 - 02/09/09 12:37 AM
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Sorry to all for any dumb questions, I'm new to the mame game. I bought a mame machine from a guy 5 years ago. It worked fine for a year or so. We since moved a couple times and, now, it stopped working. I know enough about this stuff to get into the hardware end of things, but nothing more. So, here is the problem.
The PC mother board would not turn on. I took the hard drive out of the machine and hooked it into another mother board I had. It loaded up the Arcade OS 2.5 and display the list of Games to choose from. When I select one of them, the screen goes blank, the hard drive whirls, then it returns to the same list. It doesn't look like anything is "loading". I tried to put it back into the old mother board, and nothing happened. I think the mother board is fried. I am trying to get the games to fire while the hard drive is just hooked up to a bench computer and keyboard before I stick all of the stuff back in the cabinet. Why aren't the games "loading up"?
By the way, I have a Dos based Mame version. Not sure which one. There are also some mechanical problems but I can deal with those later.
Thanks in advance for all the help!
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Re: loading problems
[Re: Mame newbie]
#180585 - 02/09/09 02:08 AM
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To add to this, I found out I have Advancemame version 0.62.2. I'm not sure if this helps or will get me kicked out of the forum, lol. Also, when I select the game, a small menu comes up saying "running 'whatever game'" and then the screen goes black, the hard drive makes some noise, and then goes back to the list.
Thanks again.
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Re: loading problems
[Re: Mame newbie]
#180596 - 02/09/09 02:38 AM
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> Thanks in advance for all the help!
First off, paying money for MAME, or even a cabinet pre-loaded with MAME violates the MAME license. Buying game ROMs is illegal. I just have to put that out there. It's possible that this whole thread will be deleted for this reason. Also, your post doesn't belong in the programming forum. Theres a PC Hardware/Arcade Cab Tech Support for this sort of thing.
Since your problem isn't really a MAME problem, you may want to go go to the BYOAC forums... http://forum.arcadecontrols.com instead for help. They deal more with people running MAME in an arcade cabinet and the problems associated with it.
But anyway...since it's running in a cabinet, the front end and advancemame are likely set up to run on an arcade monitor, so I'm not surprised that it didn't work correctly when connected to your PC with a PC monitor.
I really don't think your problems are software related. You should check the machine inside your cabinet for obvious things like...
Lose memory or add-in cards
A dead motherboard battery
Bulging and/or leaking capacitors
Failed power supply
Grounding or shorting problems with the motherboard and case
I'm sure there's more but that's the top ones I can think of off the top of my head.
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