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I've decided to do a small upgrade on processor and memory. I bought another 1gb ram and a 3.0ghz processor for under £10. I still have issues with the either the OS, possibly drivers for display or the hard drive giving me a head ache on startup. It displays ok up until XP is loading in with the loading bar but when that disappears it is supposed to go onto the light blue welcome screen but somehow doesn't get past this. It goes blank and the screen says going to sleep and sometimes reboots! I can get into safe mode no problem at all but not sure what to do when i'm in there. Should i upgrade the hard drive to a hybrid version or just a normal one? Wha ever option is best i might upgrade to win7 in the process. Thanks in advance

ok thanks for your input i will try and report back when i have some more time to spend on it.

sorry i was wrong in terms of ram on my pc....its 1gb doh! is gameex frontend free? and will it struggle on my setup? what are the recommendations on emulators regarding my setup? i only have mame and final burn setup but would it struggle with playstation or gamecube games? can these be played with the current joystick and 6 button combo setup? sorry for all these questions but i have alot of time due to this covid-19 lockdown Thanks!

Hi Guys, I renewed the battery and restored a a previous restore point and it now works fine I have one more question.... as this runs on winxp should i upgrade to win7 or leave it as it is? The sony vaio is an intel pentium 4HT with 512mb ram, is it worth upgrading the specs on this or get a new rig ? Thanks for everyones help Cammy

thanks guys and sorry for busting your heads with this. it was more of a general enquiry rather than a dedicated game ex one. I only joined the forum because it had gameex on the arcade machine and thought that regardless of frontend maybe your knowledge and help could sort this....fingers crossed! I will replace the cmos battery and take it from there cheers

Hi, so am i in the wrong forum section or wrong forum fullstop in regards to arcade machine setups etc...??? I'm confused :/ i realise im in the wrong section but is the forum not here to help with related gaming issues? I have thanked in advance

hi, here are some more photos... i was wrong about hyper spin...its maximus arcade! i managed to boot to desktop today but when i got into maximus folder preferences i check resolution settings and they seemed ok. however, when i started maximus from desktop the frontend was displaying sidewards :/ but it still worked but when i tried to restart it went blank again and would not boot up to desktop. It seemed like it was stuck in a loop! i tried last know best configuration and it didn't seem to work. Maybe i have a corrupt OS or hard drive issue. I think from memory that when i started this from windows it would automatically boot to maximus without it going to desktop. I do not want to reformat anything as i don't want to lose any current configurations that have been set. Do you have a workaround? Looking at the Sony PC graphics card the bottom one (no.1) and the top (no.2) the latter being the current used vga port in relation to my earlier post. I hope this makes a little sense! Thanks!

Hi Guys, I've joined the forum today as i was cleaning my arcade cabinet buttons as they were all stuck. I stripped down all of the buttons and streched the springs inside so they were more firmer and responsive. Anyways, after cleaning i decided to free up some space on the hard drive along with restore positions on windows. Not sure if this is a coincidence but when i tried to restart having played some games earlier, the display monitor will not kick in and says no signal??? i did notice on the vaio pc that it has 2 graphics cards and when i restart and switch vga cable into other vga port i can see the windows xp login but as soon as it boots up to desktop i get a black screen however, i can hear the sounds of the mame menu or hyperspin menu when moving the joystick up and down. When i try and use the original vga port before this issue happened i get no display at all from boot up but i do get sound (i will double check that, doubting myself lol) Is there a default option to get this up and running again? the cables and monitor work fine so im guessing its to do with a software related issue. The main c: has the smallest partition with about 30gb and the d: has the most at around 90gb i am using an old sony viao pc setup with i think hyperspin mame emulator (i think) it scrolls between mame and finalburn options. Thanks in advance!