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SirPeale:
Ended up swapping the monitor out for a WG4600.  I got it for free from a BYOAC member.  Needed a cap kit and a flyback pot.

Updated the first post for a direct URL.  Have been updating my site.

SirPeale:
I had this cabinet out on my porch for Halloween this last year.  One kid said "this is the coolest thing I've ever seen, and I've been doing this for like six years!"  Had it running Ghosts and Goblins.

I had a yard sale today, and while I was waiting (and waiting, and waiting...) for customers, I took the time to clean up my wiring.  It was a MESS.  I had done just enough to get it working, but didn't secure anything down.

"Borrowed" monitor bezel and plexi from work so I could cover it up, need to make my own bezel and get a real piece of glass for it.  The plexi is just...WRONG.

SirPeale:
Symptom: cab will not boot unless I remove the cap trick plug I made and short the pins directly.  And when it does boot, I have to hook a keyboard up to bypass the settings.  Since this is using an actual arcade monitor, I can't read what's going on.  Since we've been playing this so sporadically, I've just been living with it.

Solution: replace the motherboard battery.  That's a no-brainer for the BIOS settings, but oddly that's also what was causing the motherboard to not boot with the cap trick.  Once I replaced the 2032 battery it boots, every time.

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