Lost monitor power

Jedidentist

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I have no idea what I did. I've been playing around with a tube swap with a WGk4900. I thought I was successful, but had some curl. I was reading about the sync issues that can sometimes cause it, so I was working on those. While I was trying different combinations of jumpers, I would unplug the power to the monitor, and then plug it back in. My molex connector isn't great, so sometimes I would lose the connection. Well, after doing this several times, I all of the sudden just flat out lost power to the monitor. Couldn't get any neck glow or anything. After this set back, I just decided to pack it in for the day figuring I fried something. I went to plug back everything into my Journey, and now that G07 doesn't work :( Can't get neck glow there either. I have power to the entire cab, and I checked all of the fuses both visually and with my multimeter. When I plug my multimeter into the white and black monitor power wires, it reads 120v. Thinking that maybe I got some sort of burn inside the female end of the connectors, I scraped around with a tiny screw driver, but that did nothing. How does any of this make sense? I'm going to move another cab and see if I can use that power supply to work. Suggestions in the mean time? Thanks.
 
I dragged my Pac Man over to Journey and ran wires back and forth. The monitor is fine, as is the power supply and the tube swap monitor I was working on. With all of my wire swapping, I must've shorted something on the board set because that's the only thing that's not working properly. I get no picture from it on any monitor, a yellow LED has popped up, and I'm getting weird random game sounds. Ugh...

I guess this needs to be moved out of the monitor section and over to the technical video games section...
 
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