ASTRO CITY CAB JUST BOUGHT MONITOR NOT WORKING!

[MikeHaggar]

Hey all, I just bought an astro city candy cab and mame ready pc off the forum here and the monitor won't come on. I've tried it with a different pc on a second candy cab I bought thats working fine and still nothing. I'm not technical at all and have never owned any kind of jamma cab before so I'm clueless on what it could be. Is there anyone in the northwest UK area who could come down and find out whats up/get it working etc? I could pay them for their time if need be. Cheers!

 

[Alpha1]

Does it work with a ordinary JAMMA pcb? Isn't an Astro monitor 15/24 only? Make sure the MAME pc is outputting a resolution it can support.

 

[jengineer]

post some decent clear pictures of the monitor, the back of it etc

 

[MikeHaggar]

I cant get the back panel off. One of the screws has somethings in the centre of it so cant get a screwdriver in it. How do I deal with that?

 

[silverfox0786]

I cant get the back panel off. One of the screws has somethings in the centre of it so cant get a screwdriver in it. How do I deal with that?

hacksaw and cut a slot into the screw

or a dremel to cu tthe slot

then use a slotted screwdriver

 

[pulstar]

Are they not security torx screws on an Astronomy?

 

[Alpha1]

It could be a security screw - just get the correct 'bit'

 

[Alpha1]

But saying that before you do anything plug a JAMMA pcb into it and confirm what your MAME pc is outputting.

Your other cab you bought supports 15/24/31 so that might be why it works on the egret3

 

[jengineer]

a picture is worth a thousand words

 

[muddymusic]

It could well be that it's outputting in 31k, and your other cab can handle that. The Astro is 15/24 only. Feeding it a 31k signal wouldn't be good.

Edit: As alpha says

muddymusic2015-09-07 12:20:24

 

[vib_ribbon]

would the seller know the answers to these questions? he might be able to answer them without the need for photos?

 

[MikeHaggar]

No ive asked him. He claims to not be technical and doesnt know

 

[MikeHaggar]

this is what I bought: http://www.jammaplus.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=67649&title=astro-city-mameready-pc

 

[Jodo]

this is what I bought: http://www.jammaplus.co.uk/forum/forum_posts.asp?TID=67649&title=astro-city-mameready-pc

Just to be clear, your original post said you bought it from 'here'; but Jammaplus is a completely different forum run by different admins

I don't think it will make any difference to whether or not people on UKVAC will help you of course; we're a friendly bunch

 

[MikeHaggar]

ive just made a quick video see if you guys can work it out from this maybe? The first bit is the screw I cant remove: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tHc4W0Shr0U

 

[vib_ribbon]

just to confirm, the monitor won't come on rather than it comes on but nothing shows on the screen, correct? my guess is either a fuse or a loose cable?

 

[muddymusic]

The screw on the back is a security torx bit, on the left on this set.
It's deffo worth getting a set like this as there are always a few of these types of bits on pretty much any cab.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/Rolson-30629-Security-Bit-Set/dp/B00473OARU/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1441628611&sr=8-1&keywords=torx+bit

 

[MikeHaggar]

just to confirm, the monitor won't come on rather than it comes on but nothing shows on the screen, correct? my guess is either a fuse or a loose cable?

yep just wont come on.

 

[vib_ribbon]

i'm not familiar with the insides of an astro city, but the power supply that you show in the video, that just powers the PC, right? where is the power cable & PSU that powers the cab? the PC doesn't draw power from the cab's PSU does it?

 

[aeroflott]

At 1.30 in your video, the white cable at the back that comes down and then to the right, where does that go? That looks to be the power cable to the monitor. Maybe it's come unplugged at the other end?