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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: Apollo on July 24, 2005, 06:45:23 pm

Title: Help with arcade monitor problem please.
Post by: Apollo on July 24, 2005, 06:45:23 pm

I have a Street Fighter Zero game currently totally original i.e. no J-Pacs or anything other than a normal JAMMA cab.
When I turn the machine on everything runs fine (stiill haven't got sound working) but there are vertical lines on the monitor spaced about 1 inch apart and the lines are about 3/16th" thick.
I have searched for an answer to the problem and I'm sure it is something very simple, not bad video RAM or something like that.
Any advice would be very welcome, this is getting frustrating.

Title: Re: Help with arcade monitor problem please.
Post by: Ken Layton on July 25, 2005, 01:06:53 am

What does the picture look like when you enter the game's test mode?

Title: Re: Help with arcade monitor problem please.
Post by: Apollo on July 25, 2005, 03:38:19 am

Thanks Ken, no the lines don't appear in test mode.

Title: Re: Help with arcade monitor problem please.
Post by: Ken Layton on July 25, 2005, 10:31:16 am

It sounds like you have a gameboard problem. You'll need to send it off for repair.

Title: Re: Help with arcade monitor problem please.
Post by: Apollo on July 25, 2005, 05:10:30 pm

Thankyou, and damn it.

Title: Re: Help with arcade monitor problem please.
Post by: Apollo on July 26, 2005, 03:51:32 am

Thanks Ken, it was indeed a game board problem but not terminal thank god.
I took the Capcom A & B boards apart cleaned everything etc and put them back together and we're good to go. Seems to be a problem with Capcom boards being mounted any other way than flat, don't know if you have come across this before. Unless it was just random crap shorting something.