utahtaper wrote:
> Is it typical for a boardset to take out a monitor? My Red Baron
> seemed to have taken out chassis mounted transisters on my working
> monitor. I'm afraid to plug it back in for testing since I fixed it.
> Is this typical? What causes this?
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Typical, no. Could it happen, you betcha!
Run the game WITHOUT the monitor and measure the X and Y outputs at the
monitor connector to ground. They should measure around 0 volts plus or
minus a volt and will change slightly as the picture would be changing.
If you get something like 5 volts, you definitely have a problem.
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