ZVG board setup question.

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First off, I will thank all of those that have worked on the zvg/vectormame up till now. Some major work has been done to get this working, especially in windows. Now it's my turn to wrestle with this and I'm having trouble right at the start.
I have a known working wg6100, a comp running XP and have configured everything. When I change the jumper settings on the zvg board to the "setup" and power on, I get D4 to flash just once as I power the board up. I then go into the windows version of zvgtweak and I can hear deflection chatter and the spot killer led goes out but I do NOT get the Zektor logo screen, all I get is 5 small blue bars in the upper left corner of the vector monitor. I've tried several times and now I'm nervous that I may have a card with a problem but I am hoping for feedback before I contact Zektor.
When I fire up mame, I do get a vector picture but the defection chatter sounds way off and it appears that the picture lacks luminance, I see colors but the picture is not very bright and I can tell that the vectors are not being drawn/displayed correctly. I have double checked my cables and jumpers but now I am wondering if my card has a problem.
The user guide says to go to "troubleshooting" in my senario, but I cannot find a "troubleshooting" section in any of the documentation that I currently have. Thanks in advance!
 
I adjusted the "minimum intensity" up and now I can see the zektor logo! I have built plenty of mame's before but this will be a step beyond anything I have done before. I guess I solved my first problem. Now we need to get mame .137 to run!
 
Don't put the jumper on "setup". You never have to do that.

Put all jumpers back to the locations for running a 6100/amp.

Fire up zvgtweak for windows. Press the button that says load defauts, or something to that affect. The numbers in the fields will change. Now press the button that saves those values to the ZVG. Done.

The default values were obtained using a 6100.

Now fire up VectorMAME and see what things look like.
 
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