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Title: Green areas on screen
Post by: raventy on December 30, 2004, 12:28:27 pm

Hey guys,
On my Mortal Kombat machine I noticed that on some parts when the game is playing there seems to be a greenish area surounding certain objects in game..

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: ChadTower on December 30, 2004, 12:29:57 pm

cap kit

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: RayB on December 30, 2004, 12:45:42 pm

Are your whites too bright? Sometimes if you play with the POTs (potentiometers--those knobs that control red, green, blue, brightness, etc) it helps a little.

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: raventy on December 30, 2004, 03:39:50 pm

I see the 5 or so knobs on the back board.. but which one is for the colors and brightness?

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: ChadTower on December 30, 2004, 03:50:04 pm

Is that Cobb's Knob?

 ;D

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: raventy on December 30, 2004, 07:11:20 pm

cobbs knob? lol

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: Ken Layton on December 30, 2004, 07:29:51 pm

And the make & model of the monitor in question is....?????

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: raventy on December 30, 2004, 08:55:51 pm

lol I dunno.. im having trouble finding that! All I see is DPI written on one corner of the boards.. i cant seem to find any other writing. Any ideas?

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: Ken Layton on December 30, 2004, 11:02:26 pm

Did you look at these monitor ID sites yet?

www.dameon.net/BBBB/

www.jomac.net.au/mon.htm

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: raventy on December 31, 2004, 12:29:51 am

ah excelent links! I never saw those sites --BINGO! Either that, or I was attempting to say "before" but it was too many letters to type--! I belive Its a Wells-Garner 4900 I have.. heres the pic on the site: (http://home.comcast.net/~ano316gamer/g1.JPG)
and heres a few pics of my board:
(http://home.comcast.net/~ano316gamer/m1.JPG)
(http://home.comcast.net/~ano316gamer/m2.JPG)
(http://home.comcast.net/~ano316gamer/m3.JPG)

What do you guys think?

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: Ken Layton on December 31, 2004, 01:07:56 am

Yup, you got a 4900 series allright.

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: raventy on December 31, 2004, 03:57:21 am

so you guys think a CAP kit will solve that color "bleeding" problem im having? It kindove does it a little with red too.. but mostly green sorta appears in streaks around objects and such. Anything else you guys think it might be too?

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: Ken Layton on December 31, 2004, 10:08:08 am

Capkit first then see how it looks. If still not correct then turn down the "Color Cutoff" controls on the neck board for those particular colors.

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: StephenH on January 01, 2005, 06:39:20 pm

Also, try deguasing using a deguasing coil

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: raventy on January 02, 2005, 03:31:01 pm

how do i degause it? I thought by default monitors degaused themselves at turn on?

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: ChadTower on January 04, 2005, 02:03:40 pm

They do now... they did not 20 years ago.  Your monitor is old.

Title: Re: Green areas on screen
Post by: raventy on January 05, 2005, 03:14:52 pm

ah hehe :) so how do I degauss a monitor such as this?