Dealing with a tempermental trackspot

Ok, apparently someone made this light mad. First thing was Vreg2 was missing. I replaced it and it was really mad lights blinking, motors shaking, followed by a little smoke from somewhere around C42. I quickly unplugged it. Apparently that missing Vreg2 was replaced into the home of Vreg1. So I got that fixed. Its happier now, but what is happening is the fan is not turning on, and the fan led is barely glowing, followed by the famous error tone. I do not get the error when all the dip switches are off, but when i put it in self test I do. Is this due to something going on with the fan circuit. I am guessing all of the chips may have seen 12 V down the 5V line due to the vreg being in the wrong place. Any ideas. The wheels do home correctly.

BTW the board is the red one V1.5 with the V2.1 Eprom. Also does someone have a link to the older bin files so i can install version 2.5.

After further investigation, the Fan light comes on like normal if i unplug the fan but if i plug the fan back in it dims down to almost being out. The fan being connected or disconnected does not make a difference in the error tone.
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  • I had a similar issue recently, and it turned out to be the register IC used to read the dip switches (IC6). I replaced it, and the same thing happened. After futzing around a while, I replaced it again, and it was fixed (must've had a bad part the first time).

    Check that part. Also make sure that all of the dip switches work properly (watch the voltages change as you change their settings). The trackspot will make the error tone if its set at an invalid personality value, which could be caused by a bad switch or IC.
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  • I had a similar issue recently, and it turned out to be the register IC used to read the dip switches (IC6). I replaced it, and the same thing happened. After futzing around a while, I replaced it again, and it was fixed (must've had a bad part the first time).

    Check that part. Also make sure that all of the dip switches work properly (watch the voltages change as you change their settings). The trackspot will make the error tone if its set at an invalid personality value, which could be caused by a bad switch or IC.
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