ID this 27" monitor chassis please

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I don't see any identifying info. I'm trying to find the remote board for adjusting contrast, etc. There's this one remote board but I have no idea how to work it. I press the buttons and one causes a clicking noise like a degauss (although I didn't notice it in the image) but that's about it as far as I can tell. If this is supposed to be able to adjust stuff like contrast somehow, can someone fill me in??? Or at least ID the chassis?

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Thanks guys. I imagine a search will reveal why these are so bad (feel free to post the explanation though :)). It actually looks very nice but it's just too bright. Seems like the remote board isn't working then. I'll have to see if it just isn't plugged in all the way or something.
 
These have a tendency to get corrupted memory and have brightness problems. Hold down the DOWN and SEL buttons at the same time on the remote. After a few seconds, this will bring up the Factory Menu (not the regular menu). Do a Memory Recall/Reset. After that, you should be able to adjust your settings to what you need. Exit out of the Factory Menu to the Regular Menu, make any further adjustments, then exit...
 
BTW - you can't access the menu if you don't have a stable picture, and the "No Signal" message doesn't count as a picture...
 
Also, it is a tri-sync. if you want, you can move the plug on top of that little board mounted to the frame bar to the right of the neckboard from the spot that says CGA/EGA to the spot that says VGA. Then you can hook a computer up to the VGA connector for an image that way.

Sometimes you have to change what you input to it just so you can access the menu (which is done normally by pressing MODE)...
 
These have a tendency to get corrupted memory and have brightness problems. Hold down the DOWN and SEL buttons at the same time on the remote. After a few seconds, this will bring up the Factory Menu (not the regular menu). Do a Memory Recall/Reset. After that, you should be able to adjust your settings to what you need. Exit out of the Factory Menu to the Regular Menu, make any further adjustments, then exit...

Shit... I thought it was SEL and MODE. LOL

I have a D9200 where the red started driving itself way above the green and blue. will the reset trick fix this? it just started doing it within the last week. I'll turn the red down, and then it'll go right back up in the OSD.
 
I don't see anything about a memory recall or reset in the factory menu, nor do I see a way to exit to the "regular" menu. But the factory menu does include all the adjustments I cared about - brightness, contrast, h size/pos, v size/pos, pincusion, trapezoid. Got the thing looking really good! But I can only invoke the menu with sel+down like you said. It would be nice if I could get the menu to work normally. Also after making an adjustment to something it wouldn't back out to the menu. I had to do sel+down again for a few seconds.

BTW, is there a one sentence summary of what makes these so bad? What am I in for with this? Right now it is working perfectly and looks beautiful except for a tiny squiggle at the upper left and right corners of the screen (which is barely noticeable).
 
One sentence? Okay. "They are over-designed and under-supported, with little documentation support available from the manufacturer, and made with lowest-bidder parts."

There is a Recall in the Factory (and regular) menu. I believe it is shown simply as RE...
 
I think I tried that and it said something like "settings saved" and exited the menu. However, the mode button still doesn't display the menu.

OK, gotcha on the explanation. Do problems usually become head scratchers with these or does that troubleshooting doc cover most cases? Hopefully I won't have to worry about it for a very long time. Just curious.
 
heat. they generate a lot of heat. so much heat, they fry resistors and transistors for the color drives on the neckboard. sometimes they're even more ridiculous and melt the retaining ring for the yoke and the yoke slides off on its own.

as already pointed out, they get amnesia too. and to up the ante, when they take a shit, they make a violent clicking sound.

our arcade happens to have 3 of these, all in Sega NAOMI/2 games. 1 exhibited the "click" one day (along with an assortment of geometric issues) and had a color out when we got it, another had two colors out (it was an entirely blue screen) and the flyback started arcing and it got sent off to the fine repair establishment (*cough*) that is PNL... the color problem was resolved, and oh hey, they left the blue alone, so blue took a shit after the guarantee ran out. I fixed both... the 2nd one is running a jumper wire cause a solder pad got fried. then it started losing OSD settings.

the 3rd hasn't done anything bizarre.

that's about the extent of my experience with these. which is the greater of two evils... the WG D9200 or the Hantarex Polo?

oh and don't call Wells-Gardner about them. they'll simply tell you "they don't make those parts anymore. would you like to buy a new D9800 from us??". they got sales guys working in the tech department. they even tell you to fuck off, even after they issued a service bulletin about the shitty neckboards. they were replaced in 2004 with the D9400.
 
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It's fully working and hooked up to my Rush. But I can only get a factory menu with Mod's sel+down method. I can't get the other menu that has been mentioned. I don't really have a problem at this point per se since I've been able to adjust things in the factory menu, but I'd like to get into the regular menu if possible, if nothing else just to see it.
 
adjustments you'll find in the regular menu: (not necessarily in this order)

Brightness, Contrast, H-Size, V-Size, H-Pos, V-Pos, Trapezoid, Pincushion, Color Gain, and Recall.

I think. I just saw one of these damn things yesterday.

there's also an adjustment pot on the chassis for Raster Rotation, if that's of any interest to you. I lied about the one "good" D9200 I had, I had to rotate the picture on it. lol
 
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