Preventing damage to an arcade monitor?

[Popcorrin]

I am a little confused on this issue.  I know how to set up arcadeos and advmame for use with an arcade monitor but how does a person prevent damage to the monitor during the boot up process?  For the record I am planning on using a J-Pac so I won't have to worry about it but I assume there is a way to get by without the J-Pac because I have seen websites that explain how to hack a vga cable to be used with an arcade monitor.  What I haven't seen is an explanation as to how to prevent damage to your monitor while it is displaying dos before loading the front end.  Thanks in advance.

[Thenasty]

some ppl wiat till the FE is booted up and then turn the monitor on, but I don't do that. Since I use PURE DOS as my OS, I just turn everything on at once. I have been doing this for 1 year not I have not seen any damage done to my monitor. Maybe cause my BOOT proecess does not take that till my FE kicks in w/ 15khz frequency.

[mattv]

Most frontends can be configured to play a sound when it is safe to turn the monitor on. Some frontends also have a feature to turn the monitor on via the paralell port once the card is outputting in 15khz mode.

Most people are using a jpac or arcadevga these days - I think your plan to use a jpac is a good one

[SirPeale]

You can use the monarc.sys utility to boot to 15KHz right off the bat.  Make it the first line in your config.sys and you should not have any problems.