An oldie but a goodie (monitor)

[Ummon]

I got this monitor (Mitsubishi AM-3151A - 15-36khz/45-90hz) at the local university auction for about five bucks. Not digital, and some horizontal underscan at VGA that the pots can't fix, but a very nice picture running games horizontally, native. Almost as good as my arcade multisync, I'm pretty stoked.

And there's a story to this. I didn't go to the auction; didn't even go and pre-check it; just set my proxy bid at ten dollars. Apparently no on bid on it, and I got it at the starting price. I went to pick it up, and found out it was a 31-inch. OH. I for some reason thought it was twenty-seven. So I get it home, my (girl) friend sorta drops it on one leg just in the door. However, come to find it needs a BNC cable for analog. I didn't have one.

I didn't get around to turning the thing on for a couple/few days. No nice tube 'whoomp', no high pitch whine. Nasty buzzing in the back to one side up top. ---steaming pile of meadow muffin---. So I leave it plugged in and leave it alone, think about giving it away. A week later, just before bed I have this intuition to turn it on. And it worked! No way. No input, but whoomp and whine are there. No buzz. Oh yeah. So I get excited and hook up S-video. Ehn, looks kinda lame - but the overall color looks good. Hmmm. So I look for a BNC-ended VGA cable. Today I finally got one. (You can see if you click inside the pictures after clicking on them. I posted them, but they came out looking like dog's ass.)

[BASS!]

+ 1 for these things. I had the exact same one but the am-2751 . This is by far the best looking monitor that I have ever seen playing games. Awesome score, I had to pay 130 for mine. They did give me the original manual that had a reciept for $6,000 from 2001 though:-D. One of the noises you are getting could be the fans that cool the unit. I ended up ripping mine out and putting in new silent 120mm fans. I wish I knew 2 months ago that you would break yours, I ended up throwing all of the cabinet parts away from mine, I do still have the speakers for it if you want em.

[Ummon]

No, it's working all fine, now. I was thinking the original bad noise was something related to the chassis or something, but all gone now. Anyways, what speakers do you mean?...external?  (By the way, yeah, this one says '92 on the back.)

[BASS!]

No, it's working all fine, now. I was thinking the original bad noise was something related to the chassis or something, but all gone now. Anyways, what speakers do you mean?...external?  (By the way, yeah, this one says '92 on the back.)

I have the original speakers that screw onto the chasis:-) As far as when it was made and when they bought it those are 2 different things. They gave me their used reciept. It was used when the studio got it. Not much though as it looked brand new.