Hi all,
My first post on here, so go easy please. I did a quick search, but couldn't see a problem/solution.
I recently purchased a Big Century arcade cabinet from arcadecabinets.co.uk (an Ultimarc site) along with a Jpac and a PCI-E ArcadeVGA card. I plugged it all in today for the first time and powered it up. To begin with, without the PC turned on, the monitor made a bit of a high pitched whine, which died down, but did not completely disappear, but I thought this was fine, as I seem to recall you do get a bit of a whine with monitors/TV's.
When I switched the PC on though, the monitor started to make a sort of buzzing noise. The picture was absolutely fine. If I had to describe the sound I'd have to say it was like a short click, and it sounded like it was repeated at 50Hz - 60Hz, so I'm guessing it's linked to the output from the ArcadeVGA card.
My question is, is this normal? I waited for the PC to boot up, and then shut down without running MAME, just in case I was damaging the monitor at all. Even when it got to the 640x480 desktop it was still "buzzing", and I thought this monitor would run 640x480 fine.
Any help anyone could give on this, or any information they could supply would be greatly appreciated. I have also emailed Andy at Ultimarc (about 10 minutes ago) but have had no reply yet (obviously, given the time frame), and thought I'd ask elsewhere.
Thanks,
Francis Lillie