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Main => Monitor/Video Forum => Topic started by: Vampyre on April 29, 2003, 10:18:49 pm

Title: ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: Vampyre on April 29, 2003, 10:18:49 pm: Does the arcadeVGA require a dual res monitor.

Because I've got a single res mon and it wont display anything except for the post info. if i go into the bios or try to boot windows it cant display them properly.
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: Thenasty on April 30, 2003, 09:34:08 am: ArcadeVga is for the 15Khz Arcade Monitors only.
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: Vampyre on April 30, 2003, 09:38:02 am: how do i know if my monitor is a 15khz mon or not ?

it came with the cab and i dont know much about it.

oh and this is an arcade monitor
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: Thenasty on April 30, 2003, 11:34:18 am: Quote from: Vampyre on April 30, 2003, 09:38:02 am
how do i know if my monitor is a 15khz mon or not ?

it came with the cab and i dont know much about it.

oh and this is an arcade monitor

What game did it come with ? There are 15khz (Standard res) 25khz (Medium res) then the 31 khz (High res). It depends on the game you got. Look at the chassis and find the model number.
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: gamecaptor on April 30, 2003, 12:09:59 pm: Uh, does the ArcadeVGA work with a WG D9200...hope so, cause I have one and I just ordered an ArcadeVGA card....
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: paigeoliver on May 01, 2003, 01:23:42 am: Quote from: Vampyre on April 30, 2003, 09:38:02 am
how do i know if my monitor is a 15khz mon or not ?

it came with the cab and i dont know much about it.

oh and this is an arcade monitor

They are almost ALL 15khz monitors. The 31 Khz ones will almost certainly have a VGA plug in the back, and mid res monitors are nearly non-existant. Few games used them.
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: MrArcade on May 01, 2003, 01:53:54 am: a lot of high production games used medium res monitors....nowhere near as many as standard res....but they are out there...

games that are medium res...
the nfl blitz series
virtua-anything
apb
paperboy
720
super sprint

just to name a few

Just try to find the model number of the monitor and post it...we can tell you if it is standard or medium res.
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: paigeoliver on May 01, 2003, 02:45:20 am: That was pretty much every title I could think of that used them also. But, really, you are more likely to end up with a vector monitor than a medium res one.
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: Thenasty on May 01, 2003, 08:10:19 am: Quote from: MrArcade on May 01, 2003, 01:53:54 am
a lot of high production games used medium res monitors....nowhere near as many as standard res....but they are out there...

games that are medium res...
the nfl blitz series
virtua-anything
apb
paperboy
720
super sprint

just to name a few

Just try to find the model number of the monitor and post it...we can tell you if it is standard or medium res.

Don't forget NARC, Bottom of the Ninth...
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: Vampyre on May 01, 2003, 11:14:56 pm: Well i looked and the only info i could find was on the tube and it was a sticker with a heap of sstuff on it.
Its a Zenith tube and the serial number is OEM 483097
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: RandyT on May 01, 2003, 11:30:21 pm: This might be a silly question, but do you have the monitor plugged into the proper HD-15 connector?

You want the inside one, just in case :)

RandyT
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: Vampyre on May 03, 2003, 11:23:32 am: yeah ive got it in the middle one which all the manuals and stuff tells me to use.
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: RandyT on May 03, 2003, 12:10:26 pm: You say that you can see the post information, correct?

If so, your monitor should be a 15khz type or you wouldn't even see that.

Is the BIOS on your system one of the goofy GUI types or standard text? If it's a GUI type, it might be kicking the card into an incompatible mode (although this seems unlikely).

Have you tried booting into "safe mode"? What happens then?

Just trying to see what you have tried....

RandyT
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: Vampyre on May 10, 2003, 03:04:57 am: I got windows 98 on it and it cant even display that. It gets close but the picture breaks up.
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: RandyT on May 10, 2003, 07:14:02 pm: Quote from: Vampyre on May 10, 2003, 03:04:57 am
I got windows 98 on it and it cant even display that. It gets close but the picture breaks up.

Can't help you without good information. Read my questions again :)

RandyT
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: Edgedamage on June 13, 2003, 07:49:05 pm: I was having almost the same problem. Windows would load up and just before the desktop icons appared the system would hang. The only way I got around the problem was to go into BIOS and there was a setting
"int first display-PCI"
I changed it to
"int first display-AGP"
and no problems loading win98se after that.
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: weizur on June 18, 2003, 08:28:30 pm: Hmm I do have a med res monitor, that I got in my NFL Blitz cab what are my options for displaying stuff?
Title: Re:ArcadeVGA ,... help me :)
Post by: rampy on June 18, 2003, 08:41:36 pm: short of replacing it was a standar resolution monitor?

You'll need to find a video card that handles 25khz and /or tweak software to make it output at 25khz... (things aforementioned like powerstrip, Advance Mame... etc)

I have no idea if ArcadeVGA handles 25khz, but my gut/initial response is nope.. or not well... as it was designed to interface with 15khz and I don't think Andy just dropped in extra rezes that couldn't be used with a 15khz monitor for kicks...

*shrug* but i'm outa my league here... so...

carry on...

Rampy