Star Wars - 1983 Atari Star Wars Upright. Purchased on 5/14/2008. Coin counter was at 46,577 when purchased. Serial #3857. This is game #4 in my collection.

6100 Repair Log Link

Side art is in good shape with a few minor scratches here and there.

Serial #03857

Monitor is a WG K6100 color vector and seems in fairly good shape.

This is a 3 PCB set (Main, AVG, Audio)

Star Wars power supply board. Big Blue cap replace approx. Aug 2008 due to random resets. Replacing Big Blue fixed the problem.

Here's a shot of the inside of the cabinet, back of coin door.

This is how the ARII-02 board looked originally. Board was rebuilt on 11/28/09.

Machine started acting up in November 2009. Left side of screen was unstable with vector lines looking very wavy. ARII board was rebuilt, along with doing a cap kit on the WG 6100 using Bob Roberts deluxe kit with all 'additional parts'. Reflowed all of the solder pins on the deflection board, neck board, and HV board as well. Shotgun approach resolved the issue. Monitor is once again 100%.

Repair Log: 12/10/2009 Star Wars was not consistently saving the top 3 high scores, so I replaced the x2212 chip so hopefully that will restore consistent high score save.

12/10/2009: When the machine was acting up in Novermber, I ordered a new AVG chip from Arcadeshop just in case that was the issue. Turns out that was not the problem, but I went ahead and replaced the AVG chip as a preventive maintenance measure.

2/5/2011: Replaced the chassis mounted transistors (6 of them). Also reflowed some header pins as the vectors are squiggly when cold. Helped a lot, but not 100%, still a little squiggly when cold. EDIT: Replaced the WG6100, all is fine now.

Here's a picture of the Arcadeshop AVG chip replacement.

6/27/2011 Installed SW/ESB kit from Vectorlabs:

Step 1: Remove proms 7H,7J,7K,7L

Step 2: Plug in kit prom board

Step 3: Remove 5 eproms (1F, 1H/J, 1J/K, 1K/L, 1M)

Step 4: Remove x2212 (1E), Remove 6809 (2C)

*********** To Be Continued (ESB Install)

7-10-2011 I recapped all 3 game boards (Main, AVG, Audio) and replaced the +/- 15v regulators on the AVG Board. Also reflowed connector header pins and cleaned edge connector fingers

AVG Board:.

Main Game Board:

Audio Board: