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Author Topic: Bought already modded cabinet, PLZ help figure out VGA connection.  (Read 1064 times)

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I bought a Tekken Tag Tournament cabinet with a 25" Sharp Image monitor. The cabinet was modified to run a Dreamcast. The previous owner ran the video through CAT5. I've identified that there is a 6 pin connector on what I believe is called the "chassis board". All 6 pins are in a row.

My question is, to hook it to my ArcadeVGA card, do I just cut the cat5 end off and connect the red, green ,blue ,ground and 2 sync wires to the appropriate wires on a standard VGA cable? Pins, 1, 2, 3, 5, 13 and 14?

See attached image, I don't seem to have the little 3 wire connector at the bottom of the pic.

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Re: Bought already modded cabinet, PLZ help figure out VGA connection.
« Reply #1 on: June 16, 2008, 09:52:20 am »
yup!
as long as you know where the RGB, sync and ground signals are going into the monitor, it's just a matter of hooking those up to an old VGA cable to those lines.  You're on the trolley.

Don't sweat that extra 3 connector-you won't need them.




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Re: Bought already modded cabinet, PLZ help figure out VGA connection.
« Reply #2 on: June 16, 2008, 10:06:30 pm »
Can I screw anything up if I wire it wrong? I think I know what I need, but need to know if I can screw anything up by wiring it wrong.

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Re: Bought already modded cabinet, PLZ help figure out VGA connection.
« Reply #3 on: June 17, 2008, 11:57:46 am »
I'm not a monitor or hardware expert, but I'd say no.

there are only signals coming out on those lines, not power, so getting a wire crossed somewhere will not cause the magic smoke to come out of your video card or your monitor.

The worst you could probably do is send some crazy sync signals in and your video output is garbled, which could potentially cause long term harm, but you're not going to be leaving it powered up a flashing a bad sync signal for a month straight...

I am using an arcadeVGA to a WG standard res arcade monitor, and it was really as simple as just following that wiring diagram.