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my 5 year saga to get my arcade machine working! help!

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SirPeale:
Hold on there, cowboy...before you go getting a whole bunch of new stuff, let's see what you have that's working first.

The screen control is a knob on the flyback.  It's a large usually back object on the back of your monitor.  There are two knobs, one for focus, and one that says screen.  It's a coarse brightness adjustment, more or less.  If you crank it all the way up and your screen turns white, there's a good bet nothing's wrong with your monitor and you can rule it out.

BilldaCat:
ok.. video of the machine:



couldn't find the knobs you mentioned, but messed with the thing that had brightness/contrast on it.. nothing.

TheShanMan:
I didn't watch the video, but the flyback is what has that big wire that goes to the suction cup thing on the tube.

BilldaCat:
ok, found it.  mine didn't have the two knobs labeled.

neither knob seemed to do anything.

CUE IDIOT ALERT

so, i eventually realize.. hey.. the power supply fan isn't even whirring.  nothing is getting power.  the hum must be from the power strip or something. 

i flick the switch on the left side of the machine, the one in the video i thought was just powering the lights.  power supply comes on.  yay!

i feel i'm making progress at this point.  i then go and grab my PC, and plug it in.

zzzzzzap.

i didn't get zapped, but the whole machine shut down.  i then tried to plug my PC in directly to the wall outlet.. nothing.  i am sad.  machine won't come back on.  not getting power out of my garage outlet any more.

i then realize the outlet i have the power supply plugged into has a couple buttons on it.. i hit one of them, power is restored.  took my PC inside, still wouldn't power on.  gave it a few more minutes, tried again, fires up.

i am obviously incompetent enough that i may get myself electrocuted and am getting a little concerned.

so .. what's next?  ;D

BilldaCat:
bump.. wondering why things got shorted out and what to try next (obviously hesitant to try the same hookup and risk frying something, including myself)

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