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I'm into another game - The pedestal version of Namco's Rockin Bowl-O-Rama.
When I first powered this one up, the motherboard was faulted, so it was back to Namco for a $600 replacement. The power supply was iffy, so I swapped in a good PS, and confirmed the motherboard was fubar.
The motherboard came back, I re-make all the connections, and everything works, except I'm playing blind. The monitor (LCD) glows, but I get no display.
I worked with the folks at Namco in Chicago, and they asked me to try a different DVI monitor (tried, no video there either, with a different cable even), then to try a VGA monitor (which worked), so they said I have a bad video board.
Two weeks later, I have a new Radeon video board. I ground myself and install the board power off, and fire up the game.
I'm still with no video.
My suspicisions: Namco didn't disable the onboard VGA board, or didn't enable the DVI.
Has anyone run into this? I'm asking Namco for suggestions, but I think I could hook up a VGA monitor and keyboard, and F10 into the BIOS to set the function I need set in a pinch.
When I first powered this one up, the motherboard was faulted, so it was back to Namco for a $600 replacement. The power supply was iffy, so I swapped in a good PS, and confirmed the motherboard was fubar.
The motherboard came back, I re-make all the connections, and everything works, except I'm playing blind. The monitor (LCD) glows, but I get no display.
I worked with the folks at Namco in Chicago, and they asked me to try a different DVI monitor (tried, no video there either, with a different cable even), then to try a VGA monitor (which worked), so they said I have a bad video board.
Two weeks later, I have a new Radeon video board. I ground myself and install the board power off, and fire up the game.
I'm still with no video.
My suspicisions: Namco didn't disable the onboard VGA board, or didn't enable the DVI.
Has anyone run into this? I'm asking Namco for suggestions, but I think I could hook up a VGA monitor and keyboard, and F10 into the BIOS to set the function I need set in a pinch.

