The NEW Build Your Own Arcade Controls
Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: FrankLepore on January 22, 2024, 03:19:53 am
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Hey, all!
With the plan to either pick up a cabinet and fix it up or build my own, I recently came across an X-Arcade cab on Craigslist for $200. Seemed like a great deal, even if I just hallowed it out and used the carcass, so I jumped on it.
I got a new PC set up for it tonight with the intent to test the monitor, which is a fairly large CRT. Unfortunately, the following was the result: the screen was bright orange/red with diagonal lines going across it. A blue splotch on the right and a yellow splotch on the left gradually grew larger.
I have no idea what this means, as I'm not a CRT expert.
The cable I used was the original cable: a VGA cable with a missing pin on both ends, that seems to be correct. I tried both plugging the cable directly into the VGA port on my motherboard, and also plugging it into a DP-to-VGA adapter that someone mentioned worked. Both scenarios yielded the same result.
Is anyone familiar with what this might mean? Is it fixable? Should I just try and swap it out for an LCD monitor? Does anyone have any recommendations for that, if so?
Thanks in advance!
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