Problem Pandora Box 10th Anniversary - Controls not working

[JohnT]

Bit of a strange one, this was working fine then suddenly stopped. I vaguely remember some kind of power issue when I was using it and wonder if something on the board inside it has been damaged. There’s now no input working from the arcade joystick or buttons and the ‘settings’ Button on the side of it isn’t responsive. However, if I plug a USB keyboard into it I can navigate and control it with that. Few things I’ve tried:

- I’ve tried another Pandora box in the same machine and that works with the arcade controls without an issue
- I’ve tried this Pandora box in 2 other machines and it has the problem
- Read about the ground on pin 27 issue that can lock up controls, which I was aware of, and trying on a jamma connector without gnd connected to pin 27 doesn’t change anything
- I’ve tried with a chamma to jamma connector And it has the same issue

Has anyone got any thoughts or experience of this?

cheers!

 

[stevebm1]

I had one do the exact same thing as that a few years back,due to a power surge,luckily it was less than 2 weeks old,so I was able to send it back for a refund

 

[JohnT]

I had one do the exact same thing as that a few years back,due to a power surge,luckily it was less than 2 weeks old,so I was able to send it back for a refund

I’ve had this for a while and I don’t think you can buy this version anymore. :-/