Build Your Own Arcade Controls Forum
Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: honkey on January 11, 2012, 07:54:02 pm
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This is starting to get really old...I just bought a new video card from Newegg. It is a Jaton Video-PX558-DLP. When I first put it in my computer, Windows displayed perfectly on my TV via the component port. No emulators worked because I hadn't installed drivers yet. So I went and installed a driver. When the computer restarted, I saw the BIOS screens, it looked like it was about to load as I saw the Windows XP loading screen, and then went to a scrambled mess of colors... So here is what I did after that...
-I tried booting in Safe Mode. It worked.
-Went to Device Manager, then to Display and uninstalled the driver.
-Restarted Computer
-Did not display Windows as it previously had done
-Restarted again and went back into safe mode
-Installed an older driver
-Same Problem
So now I don't even know how to display Windows without being in safe mode even though before I installed anything, it displayed with no problems. Any ideas how to fix this?
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Which driver did you uninstall?
It didn't say VGA driver by any chance?
Looks to be a decent 8400 variant with component out.
Have you tried getting the latest Nvidia drivers?
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Which driver did you uninstall?
It didn't say VGA driver by any chance?
Looks to be a decent 8400 variant with component out.
Have you tried getting the latest Nvidia drivers?
The first one I installed was 285.58 and the second one was 266.58. Since I can't get the tv to display anything even after uninstalling the driver, it makes me wonder if there is another file or something installed that I need to delete. I am not much of a computer person beyond basic computing skills and it doesn't make sense to me why the picture looks fine in safe mode.
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I think I have determined that it has something to do with resolution. I did manage to make it display in a way where the part of the screen that should have been on the right was on the left and vice versa and I could read text. I can't fogure out how I did that, but that did happen. With the resolution set for 640x480 there is a picture that is scrolling. I am not sure how to fix this, but I feel like I am getting close. Anyone have ideas?
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I am still messing around with this and seeing what I can figure out. I did manage to get back to where I can use Windows clearly. However, if I install the driver, I can't get a picture to display anymore. Since I do not have DirectX installed, I can not play any games. If I do install a driver and plug the computer into my LCD TV, I can get a perfect picture. Any suggestions?
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I may have found the problem, but don't know the solution. When I install the driver, there is no option for 480i only 480p. Anyone know how to fix this?
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I gave up for the night. I managed to get a display that was distortedly customizing the resolution to be interlaced. However, what should be the left side of the screen starts in the middle and the right side fills up the left side of the screen. I also tried using powerstrip, but that didn't work out too well for me... Not really su what I was doing.
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I finally got it fixed and my arcade machine is playable! I had to roll back the driver to Nvidia 182.50 and then I had the option to output at 480i SDTV. The games look great! I am very pleased with the picture quality of all the classics (Galaga is the most important game for me to have) and the Street Fighter games look incredible as well. What is really cool is Nestopia has an option for RGB... Looks completely different but in a good way.
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Pictures, please.