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