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Is my ArcadeVGA dying?
Osirus23:
Missed the replies, thanks for the inputs guys.
I ordered the AMD card but haven't done anything with it. There wasn't anything new that brought this issue on, and the last time I tested it it would crash entirely now after being on for a few minutes. I might check out the PSU as well.
Osirus23:
Update:
It's definitely the card. I pulled the card and used the onboard GPU, there were no problems. Then put the ArcadeVGA in another PC, and it had the same screen glitches as before.
Is there any correcting this? Could it be a corrupted BIOS, and if so, is the ArcadeVGA BIOS available for flashing with ATIFlash? Or is it definitely hardware? I'm not against GroovyMAME and CRT Emudriver, but since I have the ArcadeVGA and a cabinet with MAME all setup to use it I would like to just keep using it for this cabinet if at all possible.
The ArcadeVGA is an RV630 512MB card.
buttersoft:
The AVGA BIOS is definitely proprietary. That said, contact Andy at Ultimarc and see if he can help on that front.
TBH it sounds more like a vRAM error or something though, and the card is dying.
Osirus23:
Yeah guess I'll stick a fork in it.