If I'm able to do it, I'll post some instructions to help out other people that are trying to keep the Heighway pinballs working. I was hoping to find someone who has already done this that can help walk me through it. I figured there was some way to reload the firmware on the IO board outside of the machine. You can easily test it with with software available on FTDIchip site and connecting the the USB cable from the I/O to your laptop but the board will need power from the game.

User is root with no password.Īnother theory is a busted FTDI231x USB-I/O chip, I'm looking at PIC32 hex now and it shows USB VBUS offloaded to the this little chip. You can login to the Utilite by plugging in a USB keyboard or SSH. It has references only to to the PIC32MX795F512, which is the heart of these boards, so perhaps PICKit 3.5 would help to read the state of the polyfuses, or wipe the PIC32 and stick fresh code on, although I would think there are avrdude logs to be found. PinChatt, re your I/O board there is an nf baked into the the FT Yocto image.

Utilites can be made to boot from USB, TFTP, SSD, etc but a pain in the foot.

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