Help with the arcade monitor

[dkssprs]

I am about to get an old arcade cabinet and rebuild to play my favorite games with friends. It will have an working arcade monitor.
1.I am not familiar with the monitors and i read in many sites about "discharging" the monitor. Why sould i do that? I have no perpose to take the monitor out of the cabinet.
2.I think that the only thing i sould do is to wire a vga cable to the correct cables at the monitor.(am i right or wrong)
3.Also i read that the arcade monitor works at 15 Hz but my graphics card has minimum 60hz. This high Hz will damage the monitor?Or it will work ok?
4.I read about special graphics card....are they worth their money?

[grantspain]

no need to discharge a tube unless you remove the monitor board(chassis)

depends on the monitor model number but most arcade monitors pre 1994 are 15khz(cga)only

you graphic card will output 31khz,you will not get a stable picture and you could blow the horizontal output transistor on the monitor chassis

ultimarc sell a vga card for this purpose

[dkssprs]

no need to discharge a tube unless you remove the monitor board(chassis)

depends on the monitor model number but most arcade monitors pre 1994 are 15khz(cga)only

you graphic card will output 31khz,you will not get a stable picture and you could blow the horizontal output transistor on the monitor chassis

ultimarc sell a vga card for this purpose

About the ultimarc card....i will have to put away my xfx 6800gs away and put the ultimarc card?? Will the ultimarc card play all the mame games in good speed or some like tekken will be slow.

[grantspain]

read this post
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=66402.0

you may be able to get your card to run with this software

[dkssprs]

read this post
http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?topic=66402.0

you may be able to get your card to run with this software

:O thanks that would be fine and do the work!!

I have a new question now

The cabinet has many original circuits plates and i am going to put them off the cabinet and keep only the monitor and place inside a pc which will have all the mame i want. My question is...

How can i make the arcade monitor to power on when i power the pc?(can it be done)
Or what is the proper way to power supply the monitor by its own?

Sry for my bad english

[grantspain]

don't change any of the monitor power wiring as it will be how it should be.

[dkssprs]

don't change any of the monitor power wiring as it will be how it should be.

Grantspain first of all thanks for the answers and your time.

The bad thing is that i dont have the cabinet yet but in a couple of days i will.

The quetsion is how originaly the arcade monitor is powered....?i remember that the cabinet had an switch at the top that powered the monitor and all the circuits to get the game started. Now i will have a pc inside.... and get of the original game circuits. Do you think that getting of the circuits ruin the monitors supply?

I hope you can understand my english

[dkssprs]

This cabinet looks like the cabinet i will have in a few days. Its a greek cabinet very old. Has anyone from onother country (not greece) seen a cab like this?



I am going to make it perfect

[grantspain]

all you need to do is take out the original power supply and use the 220v mains to provide the power for you pc

[SirPeale]

As far as I can see, all the questions you've asked can be answered by searching this forum.  They've all been asked before.

[dkssprs]

As far as I can see, all the questions you've asked can be answered by searching this forum.  They've all been asked before.

Yes you are right but the forum has 165 pages!!!!
It would be better if there was a search engine for topics or...there is?
But you are right i sould read more....
Anyway the informations here are great help from you guys....keep up the good work

[SirPeale]

It would be better if there was a search engine for topics or...there is?

http://forum.arcadecontrols.com/index.php?action=search

Right on the top of the page.

[Ummon]

It's true the format used here is very uncommon and finding things above can be a little difficult until familiar.

[BASS!]

It's true the format used here is very uncommon and finding things above can be a little difficult until familiar.

But there is more weird and helpful info on this forum then any forum I have ever been to. So its worth it!

[SirPeale]

It's true the format used here is very uncommon and finding things above can be a little difficult until familiar.

I'm a member of quite a few forums, and most of them follow the same format.  ALL of them have a search function of some variety.

[dkssprs]

i didnt have perpose to say bad things about the forum.....in no way.
I just didint saw the "search" button at the top of the page....thats all.

Now my new problem...

I decided not to keep the original arcade monitor (cause i am not sure if its safe to keep an monitor 20 years old) and replace it with a new CRT TV (in greece they cost 120E 21"). My problem is that the crt TV has not VGA but only scart and the 3 inputs.Is there a easy way to connect pc's VGA to the crt TV?Or trying S-video will give me good screen playing mame?Will i need a software or something? PL help

[gokun]

Maybe this would help you....
http://www.gameland.gr/geoanas/realarcade.htm#scart
or more likely you probably want something like this....
http://sewelldirect.com/Gefen-SCART-to-VGA-Adapter.asp?source=froogle&utm_source=Froogle&utm_medium=cse

or maybe not...just trying to be helpful.

[SirPeale]

...cause i am not sure if its safe to keep an monitor 20 years old...

Sure it is.  There are older monitors out there still chugging along.

[dkssprs]

Has anyone played mame using a CRT TV connect to a pc by s-Video cable? Is this connection with good screen quality. I hear that s-video gives best quality at res 640x480...is that true?

Again thank all of you for your great help and when the cabinet is ready i will upload photoes

[Ummon]

Has anyone played mame using a CRT TV connect to a pc by s-Video cable? Is this connection with good screen quality. I hear that s-video gives best quality at res 640x480...is that true?

Again thank all of you for your great help and when the cabinet is ready i will upload photoes

Well, since you now know where the search button is, go for it.