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I just bought my first arcade machine!
honkey:
--- Quote from: cotmm68030 on November 07, 2011, 02:36:02 pm ---The "safe answer" is 'maybe', but many of us here have been doing this sort of solution for a very long time with no issues.
Where you'd run into trouble is when there is a component that's already at the verge of failing getting pushed over by running just out of spec for a short period of time. Chances are that given the brief period before windows kicks in, you'll be ok.
If you really wanted to play it safe you could do something like get an LEDWhiz or similar device and use the +5V from it to trigger something like this:
http://www.sparkfun.com/products/9842
That way the monitor would never power on until Windows was fully loaded and the LEDWhiz initiated.
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Interesting... I have not messed around with front ends or anything like that. Is it easy to put the computer to sleep so the monitor powers off without having to go through the problem of sending too high of a signal each time you turn it on?
newmanfamilyvlogs:
I just let my K7400 monitor display the Bios and WinXP startup screens garbled until Windows kicked in, but I did use a device just like that (powered off of a bare USB port) to turn the monitor on/off when the PC goes to sleep.
once it booted from 'sleep' to screen on and in a front-end was as quick as it took the monitor to power up (maybe 3 seconds?).
Mac Green:
funny my first game was also a TTT and it was a MK2 conversion also :D