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Strange issue with GroovyMame v.146

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mamenewb100:
Ah ok. It will let me see if doublescan and running GroovyArcade in Linux is worth making the overhaul to a different OS and Frontend. But I would at least be able to keep the ArcadeVGA. Worth a shot, Thanks.

mamenewb100:
Well Calamity I burned your GroovyArcade LiveCD ISO to a CD because I have an extra hard drive. I was able to see the pretty boot screen when I restarted my PC with the CD. I selected VGA mode, which is the only one that would work with my monitor. The rest are 15 Khz modes. Problem is when it came up with a selection of video resolutions to choose from, anyone that I picked resulted in a "Over Specification" error. I imagine it is treating my monitor like PC CRT or LCD which uses odd frequencies that are higher than the monitor supports.

  I didn't get a chance to try it this morning but I'm sure if I hook up my other LCD monitor that I'll be able to install it that way.

In case your wondering I downloaded the newest version I could find  GroovyArcade-Arch2012.06.09-x86_64

mamenewb100:
Ok I was able to see what was going on during installation after I hooked up my LCD monitor but now gives a bunch of errors right before installation. Yet continues to show the GroovyArcade installation screen and load GA.. then out of nowhere just stops loading and doesn't proceed any further. I also got an error saying that processor #1 was not responding. This kind of stuff happens everytime I try to install an operating system other than windows. Bad luck?

The only option it gives on the CD is changing the boot command. What are the things I could try and are any of these errors normal?  (included pic)
 ???

UPDATE: The cd works on my other computer, so apparently there is something wrong with the Bios or something. I'm going to try to tackle this myself. What a mess.  :dizzy:

Calamity:
Hi mamenewb100, there seems to be an error with the cd-rom reader or the cd itself. No idea about the other errors however.

Provided everything worked without errors, I would install it with a LCD monitor and then edit mame.ini, etc. with your specific monitor specs, those are not defined in the default options. Then you should be able to boot with your arcade monitor. This is the theory, I've just tested it with normal 15 KHz monitors, so I don't know if there would be any remaining issue like a frontend resolution of 15 Khz or something like that. All that should be fixable but you'd need some manual tweaking and knowledge.

When new version is ready I'll be installing it and testing the process so I could be of more help to you.

mamenewb100:
I've established now that there is something strange with the Motherboard keeping GA from running on my cab PC. I put in the AVGA into my other AMD PC and it works fine.

Only problem now is I'm a total Linux newb and can't figure out how to use the internet or install drivers for the video card. I've read about mounting drives but there is no clear cut explanations on exactly how to do this since there are 100 different Linux distros out there. But I'm determined to figure it out.  ;)

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