WG D7700 Issue - Did I just kill it w/ stupidity?

daskrabs

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N00b here. Just bought a new WG D7700 from Happ. I did something heroically stupid.

I had the monitor hooked up to a PC w/ ArcadeVGA via the Ultimarc VGA Breakout cable. For power, I cut the end off of the AC molex and spliced in a PC power cable. This went into a surge protector. I accidentally connected green to black, and vice versa. The PC was off. When I powered up the monitor, it blew the surge protector, and almost tripped a breaker in my apartment.

So, I changed black to black, and green to green, and it powered up fine on a new surge protector. I can get an onscreen menu, but no picture. The PC boots fine. I can hear the monitor trying to change resolutions as the PC boots up, but it never shows a picture.

Did I damage the monitor? Or is there something I need to adjust to get a picture on the monitor?
 
If you can get an onscreen menu, then you need to look at your frequency settings of your ArcadeVGA to see if they are right for that monitor (15.7khz).

Don't suppose you have a standard-res arcade game handy to test it on?
 
You may want to ask in the monitor section over on www.arcadecontrols.com

They do a lot of MAME and custom stuff over there, and the guys there are very conversant in getting monitors to work with ArcadeVGA. They can at least identify whether the issue is with the monitor or the interface with the PC...
 
Switch around the jumpers on the arcade vga with the middle one open if it isnt. Also Might want to make sure you have both usb and ps2 connected mine wont provide a picture unless both are plugged in somtimes the cable becomes loose and makes poor contact check the connection from the arcadevga to the pc. Hope this helps.
 
Switch around the jumpers on the arcade vga with the middle one open if it isnt. Also Might want to make sure you have both usb and ps2 connected mine wont provide a picture unless both are plugged in somtimes the cable becomes loose and makes poor contact check the connection from the arcadevga to the pc. Hope this helps.

There's no jumpers on the AGP ArcadeVGA. Not sure what you mean about PS2 and USB.
 
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