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Help w/ Japanese Capcom Impress cab
shmokes:
Might as well do it now as wait until tonight as I understand. I've always been told to wait like a week.
Impostor:
--- Quote from: Impostor on April 25, 2003, 03:26:00 pm ---AFter this, I turned on the whole system and I got a big fat nothing on the monitor! But wait! Looks like there's picture, but it looks like a shadow of a picture. There's no color. The RGB gain knobs aren't working. A closer inspection inside the cabinet and the monitor board shows that the connector for the RGB gains were disconnected when I rotated the monitor. I didn't want to stick my arms inside there, being so tight, and getting zapped with the monitor. So I unplugged the cabinet and let it sit until tonite. Then I'll try to plug the RGB gain cable back into the board. Sure hope the monitor charge dissipated.
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To get to the 4-pin connector for the RGB gain controls, I had to remove the power supply unit. The PS unit can be removed by unscrewing the screws in the back of the cabinet by the unit itself. Then carefully pull it out so that it doesn't touch the monitor PCB. It's really really close.
Once the PS unit is out, you can put your arm inside and carefully reconnect the RGB gain connector. This connect sits on the large PCB all the way toward the front of the monitor. I was very careful to make slow deliberate movements with my arm, hands, and fingers just to minimize the risk of touching anything dangerous. So please be careful too!
After connecting it, the monitor regains the RGB colors, and gain controls.
Software-wise, I use MAME32 GUI. My WinXP is displaying still as horizontal. Still trying to figure out the best way to display games on a vertical monitor...
Impostor
CthulhuLuke:
Btw, your monitor wont decharge by unplugging it. That's like the number one rule. You gotta find a tutorial on how to discharge your monitor if you want to do it safely. Monitors will hold in a charge big enough to kill someone for monthes. Infact, the cabinet I got had a monitor in it that the arcade vendor took out before he gave me the cabinet, and the thing looked like it hadn't gotten use in 6 monthes at least, well I knew 2 for sure *how long I had to wait for it* and he was still able to get it to zap a discharge out.
-Luke
Impostor:
I figured that it still contains a charge enough to be dangerous. That's why I was being very very careful in plugging the connector back in.
So folks, just b/c I stuck my arm and hands in there doesn't mean you should too.
Thanks for the warning CthulhuLuke.
Impostor
anthony691:
Nothing is more satisfying then the clapping sound of discharging.
<ZAP>
I have a million awesome stories about monitor injuries, I won't bore you with details; at the computer reseller my father works at, they have all this crazy saftey stuff and yet some guy got fried trieing to bring a 23" monitor back into focus. He was alright (thrown about 3 ft.), but it certainly taught me to be carefull around my monitor!