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abispac:
So this is the project that got me interested on installing a marquee at the bottom, great job bro, thanks for the inspiration, i made a vigolix cab with a marquee on the bottom and it looks great.

On hyperspin being slow at first, im amazed you guys mention ony 10 to 15 seconds, for me its about 1 minute, on a 3rd gen i5 pc with 8gb of ram and an 1gb amd card. on windows 7x64. And yes after that all games load instantly. I think its a hyperspin bug. I did some research and got no real solution for that. so i always tell my friends, who i made cabs for them, to wait for the first game to load as the computer still loading stuff, and then after that you can exit and enter games as you please. It would be cool if we can research on what makes hyperspin behave like that. To bad that Bad Boy Bill aint around anymore to fix that bug.

And on your computer not finding the fan, perhaps you can set you bios to take 5 seconds after trun in on to load everything, im not sure how that feature its called, but ive seen it on most computer even nowdays. 5 second delay i think its is on the power options.
Nice cab and nice job, heres a pic of mine.

javeryh:
Ha - that's hilarious because I was the one who said I hadn't seen it before. I guess I meant directly below the screen and not... directly below the screen!

:laugh2:

javeryh:
Well... I think the computer inside of this thing is dead. I left the cab on and went away for the weekend and when I got home it was off and it will not turn back on. The smartstrip inside has power and both of the monitors appear to have power as well. I've been playing it almost every day since I finished building it so this is disappointing to say the least.

When I press the button to turn the computer on, nothing happens. There are also no lit LEDs on the motherboard or anywhere else... but I can't remember if there were any to begin with. Is there any way to tell what is wrong?

I'm not sure what to do - I had been running Hyperspin with the Hypermarquee plug-in but it was so slow and kept getting slower and slower over time. Upon boot-up, the main menu would come up but it would take almost 90 seconds from pressing the start button to the ROM actually loading. The computer is super old so it's not a huge deal but I am not sure I want to go through the huge hassle of setting up Hyperspin again when there are other more streamlined options out there.

There are 2 issues I need to figure out if I want to switch to another front end:

1. The second marquee monitor needs to be configurable. Hypermarquee created a window that displayed the marquee image that could be sized exactly where I wanted. Last time I looked at Launchbox, for example, the second monitor image could only be centered. This is no good.

2. I need to figure out how to get one button to act as Pause while pressing it but Exit back to the front end while holding the button down for 2-3 seconds.

I have a spare computer that I can set up - anyone have any front end suggestions that would work for me?

:angry:

Zebidee:
DON"T PANIC

First thing is to try and recover your computer. It is more likely that something other than your mother board has failed, but even then you have better options than starting setup from scratch with a new PC.

- To start with, check RAM (reseat, restart)
- No beeps from PC (warning, diagnostics)? Of course, maybe your PC doesn't have an internal speaker.
- no CPU fan trying to start?
- try replacing the CMOS battery
- try removing and reseating everything else (RAM, GPU, drives). See if PC will try to boot in basic configuration (nothing), then with RAM (one stick at a time), and then progressively as things are plugged in.
- Your symptoms suggest power supply more than anything else, so get another power supply (you said you have a spare PC somewhere?) and try that, or grab a new one. It is not unusual for a PC to want a new PSU occasionally, especially if it is run continuously and/or in hot/humid conditions.

I think it is unlikely your drive has failed, because then the PC would still be trying to boot and producing an error on startup. If it has failed with a weird nasty short or something that upsets your motherboard, then unplug it and the PC should try to boot. You can test the HDD/SDD and data separately anyway, then make a backup and port that setup over to a new computer (or new motherboard, if that is what has failed). If your drive really is dead, then go to recovery from backup. No backup? Well.....

On the other hand, a failing HDD could be explain why your setup kept taking longer and longer to startup (taking longer to read critical data), which you were reporting before. But then the motherboard should be throwing errors - and slow startup could also be explained by a struggling PSU.

If all that fails, phone a friend with better IT skills :D

Good luck!

yamatetsu:
I would try switching the PSU first. Try starting the spare PC. If that one works, put the cab's PSU into it. If it doesn't work => PSU is dead. Replace PSU in cab.

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