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JoeB:
I recently rebuild my Arcade PC with Windows 7 x64 on a 250GB SSD drive (tired of losing brand new Western Digital SATA drives!).  I migrated from Windows XP x64 and so far I love it.  I've got everything working great on my PC LCD screen (Hyperspin, RocketLauncher, GroovyMAME 0.171).

I'm ready to install the Windows 7 drivers and plug in the 29" Arcade monitor following the guide.  But I did run into a small issue and I need help with.

My ATI 4350 card is one of those that has DVI, HDMI and VGA port (VGA is on a ribbon that plugs into card PCB).  I currently use the DVI port via DVI to VGA adapter (it's how it worked with Arcade monitor/JPAC before).  The problem is that I'm missing the VGA plug/ribbon on video card for LCD/Monitor swaps!! Not sure why I removed it at some point.

I was wondering.  Either:

1) Can someone share a pinout of the ATI PCB to VGA port
2) Can I install the drivers using LCD monitor, and then somehow switch resolution, shutdown, plug Arcade Monitor, reboot and have it work?

This video card already has Atom-15 installed.  So I don't see the BIOS screen on boot up on my LCD monitor.  :)

Calamity:

--- Quote from: JoeB on March 16, 2016, 11:44:38 pm ---Not sure why I removed it at some point.

--- End quote ---

You guys have an unlimited creativity when it comes to producing new and unexpected edge cases  :)

You could indeed do the whole process with your LCD. The problem is the new drivers force monitor detection on both outputs, so chances are your desktop might end up on the wrong output during the process, and you'll be unable to bring it back. I didn't count with the possibility of an user physically removing the ribbon cable.

Just try it and tell us how it goes, it will help others.

In the worst case you could fix things with a remote desktop app.

JoeB:
I got the driver to finally install, and reboot in "test" mode with LCD still connected to it.  But the only way I can get VMMaker to run is on the real LCD screen, when you try to get VMMaker to run on remote desktop, it displays the RMD video adapter as the only one it found, so it won't be able to "write to registry".

Somehow, going back and forth, I finally got VMMaker to run, and rebooted system.  But now system hangs on Windows loading screen (bad device driver?).

I ended uninstalling everything and going back to the drawing board.  I might just have to either:

- Source another 4350
- Purchase a newer Radeon card
- Purchase ArcadeVGA and use these drivers instead of Andy's

I do have a couple of questions though. 

1) If I were to purchase a new video card replacement, which is the best one to get for Windows 7 X64 support?
2) Will the "Test mode" always display in the bottom right with this driver?

Suggestion:

- Somehow during install, I got a missing DLL error.  It was corrected by downloading the Distributed C++ 2010 package from Microsoft.  (should have wrote down the name of the DLL)

Calamity:
Are you using CRT Emudriver 2.0?

JoeB:
No. The older one / none beta.

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