Whats wrong with this picture (Arcade VGA)?

[southpaw13]

So I bought the newest ArcadeVGA.  I plugged it in and I am getting the attached picture at startup.  When it finally gets to Windows Vista, it looks like I might be getting 4 colors.  It had a hard time installing a driver, when it finally did, I got the blue screen of death that said something about a memory dump.  I have tried re-seating the board and nothing helped.  I verified that the monitor is plugged in the DVI port.  Is there something in the bios to fix?  Do I need to put the old card back in and uninstall something?  Or do I have a defective ArcadeVGA?  Thanks for looking at this....very frustrating...

[delta88]

Kinda looks liek the card itself is fubared.

try all the norm like re-seating and stuff but deff get a hold of Andy. He will help you trouble shoot the issue. I had a defective card and he exchanged it without any issue, this was back in 2003-4.

[UberCade]

Actually that's exactly how my ArcadeVGA 3000 looks at the POST screen as well but all looks normal at the Windows loading screen and beyond. I think it's just that way at the POST for some reason. I had it hooked up via DVI to my LCD for installing Windows and setting everything up, and then hooked it up via VGA to my arcade monitor to test it out and it looked the same at the POST using both connections. You may just be experiencing a driver issue if it's crashing in Windows. Maybe you could do a test install of XP just to see if it's an issue with Vista?

[divemaster127]

All of the cards look like that on boot, I got in 9 of them & i always test before shipping
dm

[southpaw13]

Thanks for the info....I am going to try and re-install the driver....

[DJ_Izumi]

Yeah, uhh, this can't be an issue, there are no drivers in USE while just POSTing, cause the operating system isn't even initialized yet.

That's a hardware issue of some sort.

[southpaw13]

True, but now that I know that the post screen is normal, i can work on Windows crashing.  Working on the driver...

[southpaw13]

OK, so everthing is installed properly...
Now I am getting the attached blue screen of death...
Any ideas?

[lilshawn]

trash it and re-install

best to start fresh again

[southpaw13]

I did a re-install 3 times and it crashes the same.  I actually restored the computer before the initial install....

Any suggestions?
Thank....

[lilshawn]

no i mean windows...

if your having the same issue, even after re-installing the driver, there may be a bad file in the windows install. (since probably 30-50% of the files most peripherals need when you install a driver use windows files of one form or another. thats why you used to have to insert the windows disk all the time when installing hardware (pre xp) people just got lazy, so now when you first install windows it copies all the files it might need so it doesn't ask for the disk anymore)

when troubleshooting problems of this nature, it's best to start with a clean slate and re-install windows. it only takes a few minutes and eliminates about 1000 possible points of failure.

it will narrow your issue to:

motherboard configuration
motherboard incompatibility with arcade3000
arcade3000 jumper configuration
arcade3000 driver issue
defective cable
defective arcade3000

be sure to check the motherboard configuration (if it has on-board video as well) to init the arcade3000 first