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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: Doc Thirst on December 07, 2005, 10:40:28 am
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OK a couple of disclaimers...
Sorry again if this is in the wrong forum (don't see a trouble shooting forum)
Sorry for my ignorance
OK I mentioned before that I had a good lead on a hydro-thunder. Turns out my good lead turned into my bosses good lead. Doing what every good yes man might do, I offered to help him fix it, and failing to do so said I would "haul it off" if we couldn't get it up. Now I know you are all thinking sabotage...but I think I'll do what I can, and try and score a raise out of it.
As I mentioned, for a while you get video and sound, then the video dies (20 min or so), but you are left with sound. After a few months of this the video dies all together, and the service man is called. Then the process starts again. The service man isn't returning phone calls (assuming he is a bit bent out of shape for not getting to "haul it off" himself), so we are on our own.
When you hook a reg. computer monitor up directly to the video card on the mb the game runs fine. The vid card and a 9pin serial from the mb both run to a separate card (analog converter???) then that card has one line to the monitor.
Question 1:
Is there anyway aside from a multimeter or test lite to verify power is getting to a monitor?
Question 2:
What is the 9 pin serial for?
Question 3:
Am I right in assuming that second card is an analog converter?
Question 4:
Is it uncommon for "analog" cards to fail?