Time Crisis 2 Player Cabinet - Monitor Help

CMB1998

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Hello,

I inherited several arcade games that I am working on getting running. I am very computer savvy, built many systems, but this is new to me.

I have a 2 screen time crisis 2 game that one of the monitors is blank on. I can hear a clicking when I power the unit on, like a starter for a lamp, but the monitor has no light.

I was talking to repair guy and was saying that it was an easy repair, but I don't even know where to start.

Anyone have any suggestions?

Thanks,

Chris
 
well first thing somebody should tell you is not to mess around with monitors if you don't know how to discharge a monitor first. research "discharging a monitor" before anything.

some simple things could be a blown fuse, but if that's the case you have to find out why that fuse blew.

check all wiring, and make sure there are no loose connections... check to make sure you have power from your power supply going to the monitor chassis, things like that.

that's where I would start.
 
well first thing somebody should tell you is not to mess around with monitors if you don't know how to discharge a monitor first. research "discharging a monitor" before anything.

some simple things could be a blown fuse, but if that's the case you have to find out why that fuse blew.

check all wiring, and make sure there are no loose connections... check to make sure you have power from your power supply going to the monitor chassis, things like that.

that's where I would start.

Thanks for the reply. I can discharge the monitor and have quite a bit of experience working inside electrical components. Well aware of the extremely high voltage present.

I have checked all the fuses that I can find and all look good. No apparent lose connections and I have power coming out of the PS.

In a film projector we use a starter to start the Xenon bulbs. The clicking sounds similar to that. is there such a mechanism in a monitor housing for a game?

Thanks,

Chris
 
glad to hear you're aware of the high voltage. I had to put that out there since I saw this was your first post. lol

I know the sound you're talking about, and that's the normal sound I hear at startup.

do you see where the RGB inputs are from the jamma harness onto the monitor chassis? is the sync pin connected? and in the right place? I removed my chassis once and reconnected the sync pin in the wrong place and had a blank screen. there should be a connector with Red, Green, Blue, Black (ground), and another seperate White wire that is the sync. in my setup the sync does not go directly next to the RGB connector but actually one pin up from it.

give that a look. not sure if your setup is the same but worth a look.
 
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