arcadevga help

[JD]

I got my arcade vga the other today and today finally got time to install it and it has been a nightmare

I have installed the drivers had to do it blind as blue screen appeared and safe mode was the real bad picture blured and and basicly unreadable .

After booting into xp the 1st screen is ok quality blue screen with xp logo then was xp boots its a crap unsable picture again .when i connect a pc monitor to the second port on the card the arcade monitor switchs of is this normal ?

any help gladly recieved as i  have hit a brick wall

This is my 1st experience with xp as i use redhat 8.0

[SirPoonga]

Someone here might be able to answer, but I'd email Andy if I were you, he has awesome customer support.

[tom61]

Let me guess, you didn't uninstall your previous cards drivers. Windows is stupid and will try to use the previous cards' drivers for the new card, and that really messes things up.

Put the old card back in and hook a regular PC monitor to it. Start windows in safe mode by pressing F8 when Windows first starts to load, or holding shift down while it boots. Go into Control Panel, select 'switch to classic view' then open 'add or remove programs' and uninstall anything that looks like it might be for either Andy's or your previous cards. Do not reboot yet.  Open 'System', click the 'Hardware' tab then click 'Device Manager'. Expand (click the plus next to) 'Display adapters' if it is not already expanded. Uninstall any cards listed.

Now shutdown, and install Andy's card back in and hook it up to an arcade monitor you shouldn't have any troubles installing the drivers now.

[JD]

I have know given up on xp and changed to win98SE at least it lets you do what you want .
Know I have the ati drivers and control panel installed but windows is still unusable I manged to get a game started and it didn't look to bad. Problem is in the game and windows when I get the monitor tuned to a point that is barely readable I open say the properties tab and the screen goes out of focus.

setup
monitor: hantarex mtc 9000
pc:800 ath 320mb memory
j-pac and arcade vga

[Minwah]

I'd suggest doing what Tom61 says... I had NO problems installing the card with XP, maybe because I had a similar ATI Radeon in previously?  Stick with it, believe me it's worth it...

[tom61]

I really need to get my arcade machinge to where I can work on it again, I want to play it, but the monitor is out of adjustment.

Anyway, instructions from Andy when my card wasn't displaying very well:

" The Windows desktop will be 640 X 480 interlaced by default. Interlacing
does give flicker on thin horizontal lines, no way around that. We are
displaying 480 lines on a monitor which can only display 300.
In XP you can run non-interlaced panning mode: Go into
display,settings,advanced,displays,monitor (top left monitor button)
set the Maximum resolution to 648 X 304. The screen will then display
non-interlaced. You can increase the res by clicking on the ATI icon on the
taskbar."

[AndyWarne]

There is an alternative solution for the "blue screen" problem when installing in XP in the troubleshooting section at www.ultimarc.com/avgainst.html

I have been liasing with this user by email. It seems like for some reason the monitor is objecting to interlaced display. From the description it seems like much more than the usual minor flicker. No doubt we will get to the bottom of it eventually.