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The two flashers in the head (the lizard eyes) stay locked on.

Lizard eye flashers locked on, then not flashing: bad drive parts and a missing resistor

Cause: Several faults. The flasher drive transistor had been fitted upside down years earlier, the parts upstream had failed, and the 5 ohm resistor under the playfield on that flasher circuit was missing.

Checks

  • Check the drive transistor's orientation and test it, then its pre-driver.
  • Check the 7408 gate's output pin for that circuit with a logic probe, and compare it with the same pin on the other 7408s.
  • Find every resistor on the flasher circuit on the schematic and check it is fitted.

Fix

  • Replace the faulty parts in order (transistor, pre-driver, 7408, and the CPU if the logic still misbehaves), and fit the missing 5 ohm resistor.

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Source: Pinball Repair help group!! (Facebook group)