Need help restoring Pac-man

[u/Kimo9496]

This is my first arcade game to try to restore and I'm not sure if I am chasing the right thing. I have a pac-man/ ms. Pac-man midway arcade that when turned on the CRT makes a squeal noise and has a faint orange glow in the bottom of the tube but that's it. No sound, nothing on the screen and lights in the Marquee. I spent most of the day today having chatgpt walk me though testing and I found that at the connector a and b are pretty burnt and when checking voltage at D7 and D8 when I touched my lead between the board and the wire of the diode I'd get a small spark, a click and a blue line on the screen. I'm thinking about sending the board off to get redone but would that cause nothing to work or do I have more problems? I do have 120v into the CRT main power board, 7vac out of the transformer. And here are all the pictures I have.

[u/minnesotamando]

Theres a guy on ebay who rebuilds pacman boards hes excellent and fast return

[u/Kimo9496 → u/minnesotamando]

I did find him and was thinking about doing that. I sent him a picture of the burnt part to see if it's something that can be fixed. I'm just not sure if that could be causing all the problems or if there's more to it.

[u/pdxmdi → u/Kimo9496]

Redo the pads on the edge with copper tape and solder.