Gotta love that 90s IBM aesthetic! Nice work on the fix, and excellent swap in the intro! "watch me fix this yellowed shell of a monitor with... an entirely new monitor!" haha
The garbled screen thing is a DRAM chip in the video card. It's likely socketed so give them a wriggle. Looks like a poor IC to socket connection. Also clean the eISA edge connector.
@TheBasementChannel ohhhh I had rewatched your other video and didnt noticed it used the vga cable internally I assumed the board was hooked up via a custom cable thingy instead, kinda like a jamma connector or something
@LetsPlayKeldeo ha no worries, yes the old broken monitor in the arcade machine was connected via jamma harness, but it was a bunch easier to use the vga output on the board.
Gotta love that 90s IBM aesthetic! Nice work on the fix, and excellent swap in the intro! "watch me fix this yellowed shell of a monitor with... an entirely new monitor!" haha
I may not be smart, but I sure am lazy!
That's the best retrobright job I've ever seen hahaha. So glad the monitor worked in the end!
And so easy!
The garbled screen thing is a DRAM chip in the video card. It's likely socketed so give them a wriggle. Looks like a poor IC to socket connection. Also clean the eISA edge connector.
Hey thanks, this is good info to know!
Great repair. Do you have an oscilloscope? Would that be useful for checking the pins?
Probably but I’ve no idea how to drive one 😅
random question but did your old monitor also had the vga cable cut off ? Wy not reuse the original cable from your old one ?
Because I re-connected it to the other monitor back when I picked it up.
@TheBasementChannel ohhhh I had rewatched your other video and didnt noticed it used the vga cable internally I assumed the board was hooked up via a custom cable thingy instead, kinda like a jamma connector or something
@LetsPlayKeldeo ha no worries, yes the old broken monitor in the arcade machine was connected via jamma harness, but it was a bunch easier to use the vga output on the board.