tempest
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I picked up a used MCE2VGA off ebay last week (seller says it was new but he never used it) to hook my PCjr up to my VGA monitor. It works... sorta. I get an image but the picture is wavy and glitches constantly. At first I thought it was that it might not like my old school VGA monitor (it's a 20" Dell Trinitron) so I hooked up a cheap LCD monitor to it and it had the exact same issue. Now I'm at a loss as to how to fix this. I thought there were controls to play with the sync (which I think is the problem) on the board but all I see are some centering controls and the four dip switches (only 2 is set to on which should be correct for my setup).
The only things I can think of are that it might be either the free cable I got with it to hook the computer to the device (it looks like a serial cable) or the cable I'm using to convert the PCjr Berg connector to a standard CGA/EGA style plug. I found it in my box of PCjr stuff I was given so I don't know the providence of it, but it seems to work ok as I'm getting a picture (just all wavy and glitchy). The board itself is the 2.0 version but I have no idea what firmware it has on it because I got it secondhand.
Any suggestions or ideas?
The only things I can think of are that it might be either the free cable I got with it to hook the computer to the device (it looks like a serial cable) or the cable I'm using to convert the PCjr Berg connector to a standard CGA/EGA style plug. I found it in my box of PCjr stuff I was given so I don't know the providence of it, but it seems to work ok as I'm getting a picture (just all wavy and glitchy). The board itself is the 2.0 version but I have no idea what firmware it has on it because I got it secondhand.
Any suggestions or ideas?
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