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Hiya folks, this is my cabinet v2 I now just need to get some trim that will go down the edges. I ended up buying a pc off eBay it has an intel i3 cpu with 3.4ghz and 4gb ram for £30 plus postage! Now I was really happy with that and it runs all the layouts perfectly fine. Luckily it just fit in as well! Thanks everyone who helped along the way

Hope it all goes well

Hello everyone. Again Today I’ve been messing around with the laptop and the hopper issue and I’m getting quite annoyed with it and it’s getting to the point where I just can’t be arsed to mess anymore tbh. Now this is just leading me onto looking at a pc to buy ( which I should of listened and done this from the start ) but anyways we move on! Now the whole point of me doing this build right from the start was to do it on a budget and if I was to look at how much I’ve spent on the cabinet it’s very low which I’m happy with! So anyway i want a pc that will run the layouts clearly which the laptop I was wanting to use does so the specs wouldn’t need to be any better than that. Now I know this is a very cheap Pc and most people would probably upgrade from this but I just wondered if someone could check this to see if it would at least work the machine! https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Dell-Optiplex-780-SFF-PC-Intel-Core-2-Duo-2-93GHz-4GB-Ram-250GB-HDD-Windows-10/193912290647?hash=item2d2612bd57:g:zdgAAOSwikxgNShs Thanks

Quick update: I plugged the ipac and pac drive into my main laptop that I use on a daily basis, and the coin mech and buttons work fine it’s just the hopper again that doesn’t so I am now wondering. Will a laptop work with a hopper? I still think I’m just missing something simple, or at least I hope.

Hiya @No1Stoney I’m a bit baffled! I’ve tried everything I can think of to get this hopper working. Now I first tried the config button nothing. Then I decided to plug the ipac and pac drive back into the old pc and get the 12 v source from it and the hopper worked fine. So after that I plugged the pac drive and the ipac back into the laptop but left the 12v source that was coming from the old pc in, and it never worked. So after that I checked the MFME and WinIPAC setting on the old pc and compared them to the laptop and everything is the same. The coin mech works fine from the laptop it’s just the hopper I’m having trouble with. So after this I can rule out wiring and tbh it looks as if I can rule out WinIPAC and MFME to which just leaves me with the laptop. Do you reckon there could be a problem there? It seems quite unlikely but you never know! If you or anyone else has any suggestions it would be really appreciated. Thanks

I'll try this and let you know what happens. I can't remember whether I did try this or not but I can rule out a problem with the pacdrive the ipac and the hopper because it all works fine plugged in the old pc, theres just the issue now. Thanks

Hiya folks, I’ve nearly finished my cabinet v2. After re wiring it all up everything seemed to work correctly, until it has to pay out. For some reason the hopper isn’t working now this is how I have it rigged up on WinIPAC and MFME. Everything is wired up correctly as I plugged the old pc in with the 12 v output and the boards and it worked fine. So after I plugged the ipac and pacdrive back into the laptop that is now running the cabinet, and left the 12 v that is coming out of the old pc, and it doesn’t work. So I am just wondering if you have to have the 12v output come out of the same pc that you have the ipac and pacdrive plugged into or you can use a separate 12v output. I’d imagine you could have a separate 12v source and there is something I need to do on the laptop, but I’m not sure. Any ideas would be great! Thanks

Hiya there, I had the exact same problem with mine. I bought some buttons off eBay and there had 12v bulbs inside which like you say would probably blow the pac drive. These are my buttons, and I put these 5v leds inside Which you can get off eBay https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/122265668678 as @No1Stoney pointed out to me when I was building my cabinet Hope this helps with you adding lamps.

Thanks a lot I'll do this

Hiya Pete, thanks for this, it’s a great help! I’ll keep looking out for a routing plug although I know they are quite hard to get hold of. If anyone finds any or knows where I could get one, please leave a link. Thanks, really appreciate it

Well then ... I’ve made a start altering . One question if anyone could give me a hand, on the coin mech I know you can direct different coins through different exits, but I have no idea on how to. I can see a set of pins on the mech that says route inhibit so guessed it could be to do with this. I just want so all coin exit out of one exit and go to the coin box, except pound coins I want them to go straight to the hopper. Just wondered if anyone knew, had a feeling @WibbleWobbleor @No1Stoneycould possibly point me in the right direction for this. Thanks

Yes I can see where you are coming from here just spent £20 on upgraded ram but I’m not going to spend anymore as like you said it would be a waste.

Ok thanks

Just checked laptop there is 2 x 2GB ram in, went to buy this but it has gone . Found this one which I’m gonna bid on when the time gets nearer https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/8GB-2-x-4GB-Hynix-PC3-12800-DDR3-1600/303879527461?hash=item46c0a19c25:g:spgAAOSwgLpgItWq Just one thing, the bus speed of this one is 1600 but on the laptop memory specs it says 800/1066 just wondered if this would cause any issues or whether the board can handle it. Cheers

Thanks for this I’ll get it ordered tomorrow after I check what ram is in it

I’d imagine there’s 2 but will have to check in the morning. Thanks

I haven’t will definitely do this in the morning

Hello thanks again for all the help @A:E @slasher I’ll have a look at buying more ram for the laptop and seeing about an ssd. I’ve been doing more testing today to try and get max performance out of it, basically I’ve just made as little as possible background apps running and boosted cpu performance to 100%, which obviously generates a lot more heat but it all seems ok. This has made MFME run even smoother and it keeps getting better and better so hopefully adding more ram will give it that finishing touch. Thanks a lot

Quick question this cpu I’m looking at buying https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Intel-Core-i7-740QM-Quad-Core-Processor-740QM-SLBQG/203250826553?hash=item2f52b17d39:g:ozkAAOSwfwlgBEjl is 45 W, and the cpu in the machine at the minute is 35 W probably nothing but just wondered if this made any difference. Thanks

Hiya folks, the model is Sony Vaio PCG-61211M. And about that thermal paste I’ll definitely grab some off Amazon or something thanks

Hiya @A:E I’m gonna have a go in upgrading the cpu, I’ll upgrade that then I’ll see about the rest after I’ve finished. Thanks for all your help!

Hiya thanks for the help, I need it I actually took the whole base off the laptop earlier and had a look at the cpu with all of the cooling things that connect to the fan, just to see how it comes apart if I was to ever replace it . With that i7 quad core if I was to replace the i3 with it does it just go straight into the socket of the i3 without any add ons or anything as I suppose I can’t really lose to having ago replacing it. Cheers

Hello, I’ve removed something from the laptop now tbh I’m not even sure what it is I don’t know if this is the ssd or it’s the hard drive whatever it is, looking at it it seems ok 500gb. But obviously I don’t know what I’m doing so if it needs upgrading I will do that or if it’s not even the ssd I’ll get one Thanks

It has 4gb of ram. Last night I was messing around with it and I changed a few setting that I got off google like boosting it’s performance and after I did that I could already see a massive change in MFME. I’ll definitely look into these SSDs and see if I can get one. Thanks a lot @slasher@A:E

Hi, I’ve been testing MFME on an old laptop I got given years ago which I recently updated to win 10. It works, but not great there’s quite a lot of lag on most of the reels on the layouts. I am wanting to upgrade the laptop so that I can get MFME running smoothly so that I could possibly do something so that this could go in the cabinet instead of the old pc with P4. It would also save buying a pc and it would get this laptop used. these are the current specs. I’ve researched the cpu socket and it seems to me that this should run a i5 or something like that, so that I can get it running more smoothly. Now I’m not even sure if it’s the cpu that needs upgrading but it would appreciate it if someone could let me know what would be the best to cpu to get and or anything else. Thanks