Video Card???

[Delma]

Last night around closing one of my V32/22 machines blanked out. Black 32 and black 22 inch. No signal. Tried to reboot and same thing no signal on either screen. My immediate thought is video card right? I never did get an answer from anyone on why the machine would only boot up with only one screen plugged into the video card before so I made the assumption that only one port on the video card was actually working. Once I get the machine up I'd plug in the other screen and it'd show Ideck which I guess is better than nothing. Anywho maybe correctly or incorrectly assuming only only one side of the video card was working, when this happened I figured ok the whole card is now gone. Until I arrived this morning to open and tried to fire machine up and boom Bally on 32 inch and tries to boot but gets an error. I'd like to know what this error means before I clear and set machine back up and lose all my master numbers. Quite sure there's still probably not a way to get into the system without clearing but I don't know everything so that's why I'm asking.


That's a bunch of probably incorrect assumptions above I guess. The question is what does the error code in the picture mean? Is there any way to get the machine to boot so I can get to masters before I clear and correct?

[RVC]

This error indicates that the backplane may be damaged, however if you removed the cpu it may not be completely seated on the backplane or maybe one of the pins is bent, if this is the problem you do not need to ramclear, you just have to correctly place the cpu  and reboot

[Delma]

You may be 100% correct. I probably changed the video card out for absolutely nothing. But after placing a new video card in this machine and making sure it was seated corrected this one is now back up and go just perfectly fine. I probably have a good video card that I replaced when the real issue was the backplane connection to begin with.


Thanks rvc