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Brutal E:

I have a Golden Tee Fore Complete green board. Brand new power supply and bypass cable. I have it all set up and wired up. I am using the Jamma converter "RGB to VGA HD-Converter. This high quality video converter auto-detects and up-converts your CGA, EGA, VGA, or YUV Component video to a higher selectable resolution VGA device."

So I was real careful in wiring this up and following the directions in the manual. Doing as much research as possible. This is my first time with arcade equipment. Here is where I stand. Power supply wiring harness I am getting 5.05 volts after adjusting the power supply adjustment nob. With in requirements for booting up according to manual. I power it up Status 1 LED solid green, Status 2 LED blinking green, and IDE Status LED comes on for a split second then goes out. Hard drive seems to be on and spinning.

So when I check the video output on my monitor I got the card interface and menu on and working but no signal. Tried auto scan, changing outputs, changing the card resolution and no signal. Board video card is hooked to converter card directly via VGA cable.

Bummed to say the very least. New hobby equals big bucks and lots of work and nothing to show for it so far. Waaaaaah! OK enough sobbing this bastard is going to work if I have to get a PHD in Electronication.


 Got to finish this project another one is coming and one is waiting not to mention the other hobbies.    

TOK:

Sounds like you might be fighting a battle on two fronts here... Establishing whether the board is working and whether your video converter is working.

You didn't mention having sound, so I'm going to venture a guess that the board isn't working. If you can get video, the GT boards will actually tell you if the voltage is correct on the boot screen. Can you hear the hard drive spinning up?

Did you try feeding the video converter signal to the board in both medium and standard resolution?
I have one of the Yaton (ebay seller) VGA converters and it works fine in standard resolution, but is very flaky in medium res.





GMZombie:

there is a dipswitch setting on the board for standard or ega resolution. have you tried to change that. Also im not sure you can hook directly to the video card cause you would cut out the video from the board i believe..not sure on that though...try using the jamma harness to get the video and then into your converter maybe... cause you can still get ega resolution out of the jamma harness just need the switch set correctly.

Brutal E:

I am not getting sound. I tried both resolutions standard and medium. I hear a crackle of sound when the board boots up. Nothing after that. I will try wiring up the video through the jamma harness and see what happens. The hard drive makes a loud clunk on start up after that it seems to be spinning.

What lights should be lit on a working green board?
Should the IDE activity light be on?

I am starting to think I might have a bad hard drive. The board would still boot up into a menu of some sort?

TOK:

It POST's just like a computer with a "Detecting IDE Drive" type of message, so I think you should have some text on the screen at startup even if the drive has crapped out.

There are two green LED's marked Status 1 and Status 2. Both should blink.
The red LED marked Activity should be doing a fast blink while data is loading.

There is also a solid red LED in a row of 4 up near the top, I think those relate to modem connectivity. One of those will be lit solid red, the rest will be off.

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