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ANOTHER AVGA QUESTION
« on: October 05, 2005, 11:00:58 pm »
Hey has anyone ever gotton a "split screen" effect?  I am having trouble getting my acrcade VGA to display on my Sony 25" arcade monitor.  I am using s-video and it was fine for a while, and then just recently it booted to like a double screen, one on top of the other.  and it is VERY FUZZY to read, and cannot get the AVGA to adjust correctly anymore.  When i click on the icon in the tray, i only get like 4 resolutions, and "display settings" and i cannot read really anything at all.  I tried to reload the driver from Ultimarc, and got some error message that i could not read, it is really weird.  Also when it displayed correctly, it was a bit fuzzy on the words, but everything else looked good.  Also when i lauched mamewah, it ran great, but when i exited it, the screen would kind of blink or flash black, and not exit to the operating sys at all, i had to reboot everytime.  Anyhelp would be great as i really do not know what to do.  I have talked to Andy and we are trying to figure it out, but any input for you guys would help.  I can put another video card in and use the TV OUT (s-video) and it works great on my monitor, but like i asked in my other post, i am not sure that i will not damage my monitor using a "normal" video card.  I think my monitor is 15khz only, and to my understanding the NTSC signal comming from the s-video out of any card is 15 Khz.  If this is correct, i will not need the arcade vga card right??  Please help me out as i am having GALAGA withdrawls!!

Any help would be great.  Oh, I cannot "force the driver" as i cannot read the screen enough to even attempt it.  Let me know what you all think!


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Re: ANOTHER AVGA QUESTION
« Reply #1 on: October 05, 2005, 11:01:43 pm »
BTW, my monitor is a Sony PVM-2530.
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Re: ANOTHER AVGA QUESTION
« Reply #2 on: October 07, 2005, 01:21:14 am »
You don't need an AVGA if you are relying on S-video output.
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