Hi have an Bally American Original Alpha M9000 system. It's had some issue, the latest is a bad monitor. It's a 19" Tatung L19LA25M21LC03 with AC power, VGA video, and Serial port touch interface. We had the game working fine, then one day just came up dead.
I haven't opened it up to see if there's anything visual, but is there something common that goes with these? I had a Visio TV that just died, and the common fix was to swap out the electrolitic caps. Anything like that on this monitor?
If not, I am seeing a lot of 19" replacement touch screens with USB touch interfaces, not so many with serial ports. I just replaced the MPU and it's got a couple of USB ports. Would a USB touch screen work? I hate to spend the $$ on one to find out not.
I was thinking a serial to USB adapter, but the ones I've uses take USB off the CPU and convert it to a serial connector (works great with an SPC 2.5 board). I've never tried to use one in reverse.
Doable?