docquest
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Just Acquired a decent looking Space Duel this weekend. This is my first video game in along time (had a stargate and a dragons lair way back in the day). I've always loved vector games and wanted something that me and the kids could play with simultaneous players. It played great when I picked it up. Now that I got it home and have spent more time with it I'm seeming a fairly repeatable problem.
After about 20-30 minutes after turning on the monitor goes blank. The game is still playing just no monitor display. I did some poking around the forums here and I see lots of posts about machines that are blind but nothing on machines that only go blind after they've warmed up. When it goes blind it looks like there is still a glow on the neck and the spot killer LED is not lit.
Another interesting clue is that when the machine is up and running with the display on, if I turn it off and then on again the monitor will be blind immediately upon re-powering. If I turn off the machine I have to leave it off for 5-10 minutes before I can turn it on again and have the monitor be live.
Anyone seen this type of behavior before or have an idea about what could be causing it? Should I just buy one of those cap kit and install them?
Thanks
After about 20-30 minutes after turning on the monitor goes blank. The game is still playing just no monitor display. I did some poking around the forums here and I see lots of posts about machines that are blind but nothing on machines that only go blind after they've warmed up. When it goes blind it looks like there is still a glow on the neck and the spot killer LED is not lit.
Another interesting clue is that when the machine is up and running with the display on, if I turn it off and then on again the monitor will be blind immediately upon re-powering. If I turn off the machine I have to leave it off for 5-10 minutes before I can turn it on again and have the monitor be live.
Anyone seen this type of behavior before or have an idea about what could be causing it? Should I just buy one of those cap kit and install them?
Thanks



