Trouble hooking PC to Arcade Monitor

[Andrew79]

I bought a Vga breakout cable from Ultimarc and I'm having trouble getting anything to show up on the arcade monitor that I have. I have a Wells Gardner Model #25k7173 Chassis # WG433716. When I hook the vga breakout cable to my pc video card all I get is the image below. I have a Matrox Video card and a Onboard video card. I've tried using both and they give me the same blurry image on the monitor. Is there anything else I need to do to make this work? Do I need to buy the ArcadeVGA or can I make any video card work with my pc? Thanks for the help.

[northerngames]

you need the arcadevga for a arcade monitor

[SirPeale]

you need the arcadevga for a arcade monitor

Not necessarily; some video cards will work just fine.  The picture he's provided isn't in sync.

See the post stickied at the top of this forum regarding Soft15KHz.

[northerngames]

yeah the 15k soft mod thing is also available but I was never a fan of any softmodding of anything really.

there's also alot of page's with problems and headache's for that soft 15k where the arcade vga is pretty much good to go out of the box.

also the arcadevga is made for mame and the arcade monitors and it has a decent amount of power as a card itself beside the arcade stuff.

to me I would rather buy the arcadeVGA card and know it is safe and works then try to save a few bucks and end up wrecking a few hundred dollar arcade monitor.

[FrizzleFried]

I've got 2 ArcadeVGA cards and they are about as plug-n-play as you are going to get.

For the OP...basically your PC's video card is putting out 30khz and your arcade monitor needs 15khz.

[Andrew79]

Thanks for the replies everyone. I guess I'll have to break down and buy the ArcadeVGA. I'm relatively new to the hobby and find arcade monitors frustrating. Nearly everything else I've been able to handle but dealing with the large variety of problems with older arcade monitors makes me want to just go with a television set. A friend of mine interested in the hobby is feeling the same way. He's leaning toward getting a X-Arcade Tank and setting it on his coffee table for use with his tv whenever he wants to play Street Fighter or whatever.

For me its too late to back out. I have a Tekken Tag cab that I've invested in and a couple hundred bucks in buttons and joysticks. Things are starting to get expensive and it gets frustrating seeing all these parts sitting around. If you don't hear from me again it means my wife has murdered me and hid my body.