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my 5 year saga to get my arcade machine working! help!
bkenobi:
I agree with the wiring, but why replace all components too? If the wiring is all as bad as in those pictures, I would probably rip most of it out and redo it. I would personally start by checking the stuff that's basic though (like is the PSU wired up correctly) and then move up to the VGA cable. If those are good, you should be able to test the display. I wouldn't turn everything on though (lights, CP, etc). Anyway, good luck!
BilldaCat:
ok.. narrowing it down. pictures:
those 2 white things obviously connect together. it's apparently the power to the monitor, from what i can tell. the blue little u-shaped clip.. i don't know what that connects to.
when i hook up everything else in the machine and leave that part disconnected, the power supply whirrs up, etc. when i connect that, nothing. the power supply will try to come on, but shut down within a second.
so, i guess the questions now are:
1) is that blue thing supposed to connect to something? if so, what?
2) .. i don't know enough to formulate what the other questions would be. i'd be surprised if the monitor itself is actually dead.. i mean, it's just been inactive for a while.. i guess it could die, but i'd blame the shoddy wiring job and my incompetence before i suspected a dead monitor.
any idea as to what i should do next?
BilldaCat:
oh, and everything appears power-related. in the top pic.. the white/blue thing on the side, they are bundled together with cable ties and run down to that white connector in the middle of the first pic. from there, you can see it connecting to a bunch of black wires.. the ones going up run to the power switch for the whole machine, the ones below go into cables of which 1 plugs into the power supply of the machine, and the other runs to a power strip which is where the speakers and other stuff plugs into.
BobA:
In your top pic I see an isolation transformer. The AC for your monitor should come from the transformer. When you say you hear a fan is it on the power supply for the cabinet or the fan in your PC supply? Not sure about the blue connector on the white wire without having some idea where it comes from.
BilldaCat:
isolation transformer.. is that the thing with the red wires running out of the bottom?
that tag on the 2nd pic (shows the french side) mentions something about an isolation transformer being needed.
those 2 red wires don't connect to anything. so .. that could certainly be an issue.
the fan i am referring to is the fan on the power supply for the cabinet.
i'll try to figure out where that blue thing is going.. i'm pretty sure though it runs down into that white connector in the middle of the first pic.