jetset Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 Ok, I have a 2 port 5200 with a 4 port bios. It's been working fine. Today, it suddenly stops working. None of the games come up on screen. Power light comes on....but nothing. Funniest thing is, I have a 2600 adapter. The games through the adapter play fine. How can this be? ANy ideas???? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sku_u Posted August 23, 2003 Share Posted August 23, 2003 That is very weird. I've never heard of something like that happening before. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Charlie_ Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 That is the same exact thing that happened to one of my 5200s. One if the socketed bug chips are bad on the motherboard. I had an extra board laying around a swapped all the bug chips from my extra board to the broken system and it worked fine after that. Charlie Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jetset Posted August 24, 2003 Author Share Posted August 24, 2003 That is the same exact thing that happened to one of my 5200s.One if the socketed bug chips are bad on the motherboard. I had an extra board laying around a swapped all the bug chips from my extra board to the broken system and it worked fine after that. Charlie Is there any way to tell which one it could be??? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
omne Posted August 24, 2003 Share Posted August 24, 2003 "bug" chip? Is that just slang for an IC (interrated circuit)? When socketed, those are easy to swap. Finding working replacements, not so easy... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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