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Main => Project Announcements => Topic started by: Jigenjuke on March 05, 2009, 06:29:54 pm
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Hey there guys, I have recently finished a 1/2 scale tempest replica cabinet (the art is all original and not tempest) Looks great, but when I boot into windows the little Circus 8inch monitor. It goes through the windows booting screen and then it looses the signal. I am using a GeForce Ti 4300 128mb AGP video card, with a MALA front end rotated 90 degrees clockwise. I am wondering if the problem is either in the resolution (the Circus 8" is 800x600) or if it is a refresh rate problem. If I boot using a different monitor and then switch to the 8" circus everything works fine. The PC is a 1.4ghz celeron with 512mb memory. Please help! I am almost at my wits end. :'(
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I will not even consider helping unless you post some pics of this thing. >:D
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Have you tried connecting to a regular monitor and setting the display in windows to 800x600?
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I had a problem like this when I fired mine up. But my frontend was set to play at a higher resolution then the monitor could handle. so I had to make sure the frontend was set to a lower resolution that the monitor could handle. I am using Hyperspin and it has that option. I dont know if yours does or not. Hope this helps.
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Ok, here goes.
With a normal monitor attached, do the following:
Right-click anywhere on the desktop.
Left-click "Properties"
Left click on the top tab named "Settings"
Move the slider to 800x600
Left click "Advanced"
Left-click "Monitor"
Left-click "Properties"
Left-click the "Driver" tab at the top
Left-click "Update Driver"
Click on "Install from a list or specific location (Advanced)", then hit "Next"
Click on "Don't search. I will choose the driver to install", then hit "Next"
Un-check "Show compatible hardware"
At the very top of the left column select "(Standard monitor types)"
In the right column at the bottom select "Super VGA 800x600"
Click "Next"
Click "Finish"
Click "Close"
Put a check in the box that says "Hide modes that this monitor cannot display"
Click "OK"
Click "Ok"
Reboot on tiny monitor.
This may not work for a few reasons, but now windows should know not to set it higher than 800x600.
You may need to do the above on the actual tiny monitor (if its plug and play) if so, just press "F8" just before you see the windows boot screen, the select "vga mode". then do the above with the tiny monitor plugged in.
If you have to, try adding " /BASEVIDEO" to your boot.ini, it will force that setting every time.
Now where are the pictures?
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Ok thanks for the help. I promise I will be posting pics very soon, I won't forget ya.
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When this happens to me, I reboot and hammer on F8 after the boot logo and before the windows logo appears to bring up the startup options. Select VGA mode. When you get in, go to display properties and make your changes and you should be all set. This way you can do it all on the little monitor and not have to switch things around. The only thing that may mess it up is if you're on some kind of managed computer that used to belong to a company that has some kind of stupid group policy that keeps resetting the settings.