Month: September 2025

Williams Firepower Pinball Machine Cpu and Driver Board Repair service

Your friends at Pinball Services want you to know we are doing what we can to remain business as usual while maintaining due diligence to prevent ANY issues from Viruses. This means using bleach an other remediation tools to clean while we work to keep our team, an our customers, safe an well. Offering Factory Trained Repair/Professional Service. Electronic circuit boards, cabinet harnesses, Playfield wiring. WILLIAMS FIREPOWER COMBO 2 BOARD CPU, DRIVERBOARD, FLAT RATE SERVICE. THIS REPAIR SERVICE RESTORES CORRECT SYSTEM OPERATION & RELIABILITY TO WILLIAMS SYSTEM 4 or 6 BOARDS. There has never been a Pinball SYSTEM so vilified, scrutinized, ostracized and generally dumped on than the Williams CPU/ MPU/DRIVERBOARD/POWER SUPPLY BOARDS Yet, the SYSTEM is still here and can usually be rescued. There is a good reason why they are still around after 40 Years. They were designed to take incredible abuse. With FAT traces and rugged pads they can be repaired dozens of times in the hands of many’techs’ and still survive. NOBODY WILL SAY A WILLIAMS BOARDSET IN A 35 YEAR GAME THAT IS ORIGINAL, UNDAMAGED, OR WITH MINIMAL OVERHEATING CANNOT BE REPAIRED TO WORK RELIABLE! AS A PINBALL OWNER WITH A NON WORKING SYSTEM YOU HAVE A CHOICE TO HAVE YOUR ORIGINAL WILLIAMS 3-4-6-7 SYSTEM SERVICED & RESTORED TO RELIABILITY. SERVICING THESE THREE BOARDS WILL ASSURE A GAME THAT WAS RUNNING AND SHUT DOWN WILL BOOT UP AGAIN. New technology installed into vintage technology IS NOT RECOMMENDED WITH CLAIMS OF ALTERED CIRCUITS AND TIMING CLOCKS, VOLTAGE RESET CHANGES DON’T MAKE A BETTER GAME OR SYSTEM AS THESE AFTERMARKET BOARDS MIMIC THE SAME OPERATION NO BETTER. TE IDEA IS TO GET A GAME UP AND WORKING AGAIN CHOOSING SO JUST A MATTER OF OPINION AND DOES NOT MAKE A BETTER OR MORE RELIABLE SYSTEM RATHER A CLONE WITH IT’S POTENTIAL UNDISCOVERD PROBLEMS, SEASONED TECS DON’T WANT TO DISCOVER NEW PROBLEMS THAT DON’T EXIST WITH ORIGINAL WILLIAMS BOARDS TEC SUPPORT IS USUALLY WEAK WITH AN AFTERMARKET. THE CLOCK CHIP BECAME OBSOLETE AND WAS NEVER A PROBLEM SYSTEM WISE IN FACT SYSTEM 3 AND 4 WILLIAMS CAN BE REBUILT TO BE RELIABLE AGAIN JUST THE SAME. WILLIAMS AS WITH ALL OTHER MANUFACTURERS STARTED USING THE NEW MOTOROLA 6808 AROUND 1979 WHICH WAS A SIMPLER REVISED DESIGN USING LESS PARTS AND OPERATED THE SAME WAY AS A 6800 NEARLY THE SAME AS A 6802 EXCEPT IT HAS AN INTERNAL RAM. A TIP 107 DRIVES A LAMP ROW AND SO DOES A TIP 42 AND A 27 OHM RESISTOR, AN INTERCONNECT OF 40 PINS THAT CONNECT THE BOARDS IS THERE FOR SEPARATE CIRCUIT BOARD SERVICE. WROTE A PROGRAM TO TEST THE CPU BOARD WITHOUT A DRIVERBOARD ATTACHED! AND IF THE DRIVER BOARD WAS FAULTY IT WOULD BE USELESS AND NOT ALLOW THE TEST TO CHECK THE WORKING CPU SIDE. THE RESET CIRCUIT IS BASED ON 12v THE SAME 12v THAT CREATES 5v A WORKING POWER SUPPLY WILL NEVER CAUSE A RESET PROBLEM FOR ANY ORIGINAL 3-4-6 OR 7 GAME. THE 40 PIN CONNECTOR IS QUICKLY REPLACED WITH TODAY’S MOLEX ADVANCED TECHNOLOGY WHO MAKE CONNECTORS FOR INDUSTRY, MARINE, DEFENSE AUTOMOTIVE, INDUSTRIAL, AND MEDICAL. AFTER REPLACEMENT OF THE 40 PIN CONNECTOR WITH MOLEX PRODUCTS THE CONNECTION PROBLEMS ARE SOLVED. THERE ARE NO SERVICE BULLETINS REGARDING THE ABOVE BECAUSE THE SYSTEMS DID NOT REQUIRE THESE MODIFICATIONS , IF YOUR GAME HAS ORIGINAL BOARDS ITS TIME FOR UPKEEP EVEN IF THEY ARE WORKING THEY ARE 30-40 YEARS IN THE MAKING AND NEED MAINTENANCE & SERVICE. JUST LIKE A CLASSIC CAR. WHICH RESTORES THE WILLIAMS FACTORY DESIGNED SYSTEM BOARD SET BACK TO ARCADE RELIABILITY FOR YEARS TO COME. BEWARE OF COPY REPRODUCTION BOARDS THAT ATTEMPT TO MIMIC THIS GREAT SYSTEM THERE IS RARELY A PROBLEM RESTORING A ORIGINAL Cpu, Driverboard, and Power Supply boards BACK TO ITS FORMER GLORY, NO NEED TO LOCK IN WITH A PROTOTYPE BOARD WITH SOCKETS AT EVERY CHIP WITH AN OVER 280 PIN INTERCONNECTS OF UNDERSOLD IC’S WILLIAMS SOLDERED IC’S ON THEIR BOARDS FOR THAT REASON. WE HAVE THE PROFESSIONAL TOOLS TO EASILY REMOVE AND REPLACE ANY SIZE CHIP WE DO NOT INSTALL SOCKETS INTO OUR BOARDS WE SERVICE, REPLACEMENT CHIPS ARE SOLDERED IN PLACE AS FACTORY STANDARD. AFTERMARKET BOARDS HAVE A SOCKET AT EVERY CHIP MAINLY BECAUSE THEY CANNOT WITHSTAND DE SOLDERING HEAT AS THE TRACES AREN’T AS RUGGED AND WILL EASILY LIFT FROM THE BOARD. WE DO NOT OFFER REPAIR TO AFTERMARKET BOARDS FOR THIS REASON. WILLIAMS LATER DROPPED ALL SOCKETS ON THE DRIVERBOARD BECAUSE IT WAS NOT RELIABLE PRACTICE. IF NEW BOARDS ARE BEING CONSIDERED THEN WE SUGGEST GETTING A FRESHLY MANUFACTURED MACHINE. ORIGINAL WILLIAMS BOARDS ARE RUGGED AND CAN WITHSTAND DOZENS OF REPAIRS. THIS SERVICE IS FOR ALL WILLIAMS 3-4-6-7 BOWLER AND PINBALL GAMES: Alien Poker Blackout Baracora Black Knight Blackout Pokerino Scorpion Solar Fire Starlight Stellar Wars Time Fantasy Contact Cosmic Gun Defender Disco Fever Fire Power Fire Power II Flash Gorgar Hot Tip Joust Jungle Lord Laser Ball Laser Cue Lucky Seven Phoneix Pharaoh Time Warp Tri-Zone Varkon Warlock World Cup. Big Strike Triple Strike Pompei LIST OF COMMON PROBLEMS THE SYSTEM NEEDS SERVICE. TWO RED LIGHTS LOCKED ON. ETHER ONE UPPER RED LIGHT OR ONE LOWER LIGHT IS LOCKED ON AFTER DIAGNOSTIC BUTTON IS PRESSED. GAME SHUTS DOWN DURING GAMEPLAY OR BY ITSELF. 1 POP BUMPER LOCKED ON OR INTERMITTENT GAMEPLAY CONTINUES AFTER DRIVERBOARD REPLACEMENT. SCORING NUMBER COUNT OFF AND OR INTERMITTENT SCORE FUNCTION. PROGRAMMING LOST AFTER POWERING OFF OR GAME IS LOCKED IN ADJUSTMENT FAILURE WITH A CODE DISPLAYED IN PLAYER 1 SCORE. GAME DOES NOTHING AND BOTH RED LIGHTS LOCKED ON. Keep your game original.