Flappy Birds with 42" LCD seems like a A/D board issue? Thoughts on WGF4259-SFES16C Wells Gardner LCD Monitor issues..

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Hey everyone, I have a Flappy Birds 42" Redemption machine in my arcade and it seems possible the A/D control board went out?

Here is what happens: I boot it up - I can see the screen activate - and I see the Ubuntu load screen - then it goes black - a wave of color swipes over (sometimes) and then nothing but black (maybe a white activation screen if you know what I mean, not powered off, but not displaying... IF I hook up another LCD, just a regular computer LCD monitor, works as it should. Currently it's hooked up in the cabinet with DVI cable, the motherboard has VGA and DVI, so I connected a new VGA cable to PC and Monitor just to test and it did same thing. I have NOT hooked up a laptop to the Monitor, extended the screen, and and tried other resolutions yet. Seems to me it's having an issue switching resolutions. I can't imagine Flappy Birds is a high res game - BUT it's probably more than BIOS/Board initialization screen... :)

Thoughts or experiences with these? I was told the LCD was replaced not that long ag - so strange it already went out..

Thanks for reading!! I could insert pics if needed.
Bob
 
Video card in pc faulty. Test with known good one. You can get new old stock card from ebay or Amazon for 40 bucks.
 
Win Ubuntu boots it is in a frame buffer mode and when it inits the graphics driver it falls on its face. Could try a reinstall of the game first to rule out a bad filesystem.
 
Win Ubuntu boots it is in a frame buffer mode and when it inits the graphics driver it falls on its face. Could try a reinstall of the game first to rule out a bad filesystem.
Sorry for my noob understanding. If the guy hooked an smaller monitor and everything worked, it seems that the gpu is working just fine, assuming the same resolution. No?

Next stept would be connection an laptop or pc to the original monitor.
 
There was some of these games that actually coded the monitor info in the first boot of the os and will fail if a new monitor is installed and the game image is not restored also to write the new monitor eid to the xorg config they are locked at one resolution and if the newer monitor is installed it may have a higher resolution and the os is configured wrong it will cause this. Adrenaline games is known for this on there linux builds. Some older raw thrills did this also.
 
Hey everyone, I have a Flappy Birds 42" Redemption machine in my arcade and it seems possible the A/D control board went out?

Here is what happens: I boot it up - I can see the screen activate - and I see the Ubuntu load screen - then it goes black - a wave of color swipes over (sometimes) and then nothing but black (maybe a white activation screen if you know what I mean, not powered off, but not displaying... IF I hook up another LCD, just a regular computer LCD monitor, works as it should. Currently it's hooked up in the cabinet with DVI cable, the motherboard has VGA and DVI, so I connected a new VGA cable to PC and Monitor just to test and it did same thing. I have NOT hooked up a laptop to the Monitor, extended the screen, and and tried other resolutions yet. Seems to me it's having an issue switching resolutions. I can't imagine Flappy Birds is a high res game - BUT it's probably more than BIOS/Board initialization screen... :)

Thoughts or experiences with these? I was told the LCD was replaced not that long ag - so strange it already went out..

Thanks for reading!! I could insert pics if needed.
Bob

Verify power supply voltages under load. That can give odd monitor behavior. Testing with a different power supply is what I would do.
 
Sorry for my noob understanding. If the guy hooked an smaller monitor and everything worked, it seems that the gpu is working just fine, assuming the same resolution. No?

Next stept would be connection an laptop or pc to the original monitor.
My first thought would have been video card like @Quantammass suggested. First a reinstall of the game like he pointed out to make sure nothing is corrupted. If it behaves the same its probably graphics card.

Now you say the gpu seems like its working fine because of the image. Not necessarily. Based upon what i read from the first post. the OP said the motherboard has vga and dvi. I am assuming he has used the on-board video connectors from the motherboard. Not the graphics card which will have its own set of inputs. If the card fails the computer should either....crash, or default to its original video output ports which would be those on-board video out ports. Typically the onboard video out cannot support the same higher resolution a video card can, so that can explain the resulolution issue he is mentioning. Im just going on what I read. I could easily be wrong :)
 
There was some of these games that actually coded the monitor info in the first boot of the os and will fail if a new monitor is installed and the game image is not restored also to write the new monitor eid to the xorg config they are locked at one resolution and if the newer monitor is installed it may have a higher resolution and the os is configured wrong it will cause this. Adrenaline games is known for this on there linux builds. Some older raw thrills did this also.
This is a Bay-Tek game - they're NOTORIOUS for using crappy eMMC SATA modules that'll corrupt with time and result in X.org to fail to initialize. To eliminate the screen in the machine from the potentially defective list I'd test it with another computer to be sure it's working alright for an extended amount of time, then move onto replacing the storage media
 
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