Picked up a frogger on CL yesterday. Guy tells me how he's had it for years, etc and it plays blind. Doesn't know what happened to the monitor, it just quit.
No problem.. $150 sounds not too bad for a decent frogger, monitors can be fixed, and I didn't want to risk fixing it in front of the seller.
Get it home and start poking around (I actually picked it up for a fellow klov'er but couldn't resist poking around). Its got a WG 4675 monitor in it... dead as a door nail. Start looking and whoa! the monitor fuse missing... a pigtail fuse and its snipped out. Its not in the cabinet anywhere... hmmm I start to smell fishiness now... clip in a fuse and voila! monitor comes up (out of sync tho). A little pot twiddling fixes that. Now frogger comes up, but with a pretty blatent video glitch (every other row (column to the player) is white or missing). Probably a ram or something.
Question is (after all that)... Seems like the seller clipped the fuse in the monitor to hide the board issue to me.. He _could_ have been telling the truth, but what happened to the fuse? I thought about calling him back and letting him know I thought he was full of %#$^, but that really wouldn't do much.
Still probably an easy fix (hopefully).. I just don't like it when I feel like someone (besides my wife) is screwing me!
Is this different than when we notice a blown fuse and keep our mouths shut to get the good price? Is that just a little white lie...
oh well...
All this babbling is making me thisty!
/Tim
No problem.. $150 sounds not too bad for a decent frogger, monitors can be fixed, and I didn't want to risk fixing it in front of the seller.
Get it home and start poking around (I actually picked it up for a fellow klov'er but couldn't resist poking around). Its got a WG 4675 monitor in it... dead as a door nail. Start looking and whoa! the monitor fuse missing... a pigtail fuse and its snipped out. Its not in the cabinet anywhere... hmmm I start to smell fishiness now... clip in a fuse and voila! monitor comes up (out of sync tho). A little pot twiddling fixes that. Now frogger comes up, but with a pretty blatent video glitch (every other row (column to the player) is white or missing). Probably a ram or something.
Question is (after all that)... Seems like the seller clipped the fuse in the monitor to hide the board issue to me.. He _could_ have been telling the truth, but what happened to the fuse? I thought about calling him back and letting him know I thought he was full of %#$^, but that really wouldn't do much.
Still probably an easy fix (hopefully).. I just don't like it when I feel like someone (besides my wife) is screwing me!
Is this different than when we notice a blown fuse and keep our mouths shut to get the good price? Is that just a little white lie...
oh well...
All this babbling is making me thisty!
/Tim


