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I am going to burn my Cab I'm building!!!
AMDman13:
Hang in there and keep trying. Use a DVI to VGA dongle to connect that LCD. The VGA port on the AVGA card is for 15khz only. The DVI port is configured for standard VGA.
TOK:
--- Quote from: Turnarcades on May 16, 2009, 09:52:58 pm ---... and people often ask why we stick to PC monitors in our cabs... :dizzy:
Customers wanna install their own then fine by me. Personally I've never even wanted the headache for my own cabs, let alone other people's. :laugh:
--- End quote ---
I have cabs with a TV, computer CRT, LCD and arcade monitor respectively, so I've dealt with most of the common display types now. Once you overcome the minor hurdles of using an arcade monitor, there is nothing better for what we're trying to do. Honestly, setting up an arcade monitor was no more difficult than configuring a TV using component. BigDaddyE's issue here is atypical, particularly when using an Arcade VGA.
BigDaddyE:
I've been told I'm an atypical kind of guy!
Well, I gave up last night, so day 2.
I followed everyones advice, got the LCD hooked up, installed the drivers for the arcade card and still had a crt picture that had issues with horizontal and vertical hold, I think the back bar was gone.
So I have been working with Andy and Rick on where the issue lies. They think it is a wiring harnass issue, so I will be trying different combo wiring styles that Andy has suggested.
I will keep those who have helped up to date and if you have an idea, let me know, through you guys I was able to at least get the lcd working yesterday!
Thanks!
Eric
BigDaddyE:
Im at a dead end again.
Did some wiring tricks and got the picture a little better, still looks like the original picture I posted, now the colors are correct though.
Can't move that black bar, can't get the horizontal hold to hold and can't get the vertical hold to hold.
Eric
kegger:
You have to try to eliminate either the monitor or the video card from the picture.
Then you will be able to narrow down your problem to which peice of hardware it is causing the problem. Now from what I have read in the posts it sounds like to me the picture is rolling on the lcd and arcade monitor. If this is true then it could be a problem with the video card or drivers. What is it doing when you boot into safe mode on the LCD? Does the picture stay at that point? You want to try to get a 640X480 60hz video setting on the lcd and not have any rolling issues then you should be able to move the pc to the arcade monitor and have the same results or atleast be close. Take it step by step keeping track of what you tried. And if the rolling issue is keeping you from checking the settings then try a standard video card and get the settings correct in windows first. I know this has all been said in the above posts but all the advice is good and its important to know what it does in safe mode with the Arcade VGA plugged into the LCD. A regular CRT monitor would be better for testing. Good Luck. I have had the problem with plugging my arcade monitor into the VGA port of the ArcadeVGA and pulled my hair out on that too. :cheers:
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