TVsIan
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I've got a Ms. Pac-Man cocktail with a 19" G07 (I think - the chassis appears to match the pictures) that cut out on me.
The backstory - the machine worked, then went into storage for a few years after I moved and had no place to put it. When it came back inside, it did show a picture, but not the whole display and with a lot of space between each pixel.
I was able to get it converged by tweaking the adjustments, but the image had a vertical (well, horizontal from the monitor's perspective) roll that I couldn't get to stop. I didn't have the time or money to do anything with it at that point, so it stayed indoors and unplugged but unused for another couple of years.
I just tried it out again today, and all I get is a dull gray screen. I can see the burn-in (which I can't when it's powered off), and I can hear the game if I try to play it, but there's nothing coming up on the screen. Also a faint burning smell, but I'm pretty sure that was just the dust burning off the light bulbs.
I don't see any damage to the flyback or any blown caps. There's a label stuck to the chassis saying "Good caps" dated 1998, so something was done to it or tested back then (a couple of years before I bought it, I think).
Looking around, I found some troubleshooting info, but not for this particular symptom. The tube is definitely getting some kind of power, but that appears to be it. And having never worked on monitors or anything high voltage before, I'm hesitant to start poking around with a multimeter without narrowing it down first.
Any pointers on where to begin with something like this? If it makes a difference, I did install a Multi-Pac kit years ago, but since that's a daughterboard to the original it shouldn't affect the video output, and it had been working until it went into storage.
The backstory - the machine worked, then went into storage for a few years after I moved and had no place to put it. When it came back inside, it did show a picture, but not the whole display and with a lot of space between each pixel.
I was able to get it converged by tweaking the adjustments, but the image had a vertical (well, horizontal from the monitor's perspective) roll that I couldn't get to stop. I didn't have the time or money to do anything with it at that point, so it stayed indoors and unplugged but unused for another couple of years.
I just tried it out again today, and all I get is a dull gray screen. I can see the burn-in (which I can't when it's powered off), and I can hear the game if I try to play it, but there's nothing coming up on the screen. Also a faint burning smell, but I'm pretty sure that was just the dust burning off the light bulbs.
I don't see any damage to the flyback or any blown caps. There's a label stuck to the chassis saying "Good caps" dated 1998, so something was done to it or tested back then (a couple of years before I bought it, I think).
Looking around, I found some troubleshooting info, but not for this particular symptom. The tube is definitely getting some kind of power, but that appears to be it. And having never worked on monitors or anything high voltage before, I'm hesitant to start poking around with a multimeter without narrowing it down first.
Any pointers on where to begin with something like this? If it makes a difference, I did install a Multi-Pac kit years ago, but since that's a daughterboard to the original it shouldn't affect the video output, and it had been working until it went into storage.


