Captain America and the Avengers Repair Log #2

Next step was to remove all the chips for a deep cleaning.

It was even nastier underneath:


After using a nice paint brush to remove most of the dead insect parts and spider egg sacks, I prayed the entire board (both sides) abundantly with Simple Green.

Rinced it slowly in the sink after letting the Simple Green rest for a minute or two, then removed more stuck dead insect parts and did the same process once more for good measure.

I let it drain and dry a little bit, and then used my ESD protected Air Duster to push the excess water out of the sockets and help the drying process (now more than a minute or two at a time).



I let the board rest for a day and a night in the nice hot Californian weather, using the Air Duster a few more times once in a while.

Next step was to do a full visual inspection of the board.

• Nothing major detected, no lifter legs on the legs of the chips, but a few scratches on the traces.
• Used the multimeter to check continuity and all seemed fine.

Before doing more tests, I proceeded to cleaning the EPROMs and Pals.

• One of the EPROMs had a bent leg that I managed to carefully salvage while cleaning it.
• For the rest, I used a nail filer to carefully clean all the dirt off from the legs.
• I then re-seated all of the chips in their sockets to do a quick test:

Color are back, screen is stable for the Attract mode!

I let it run for a while and all good!



Starting the game gives me still that debug code  


But pressing start on player two made it disappear!!



Played the game for about 25 minutes with no issue!

• Image good, controls good, sound perfect.

Success! It was an easy one!