rockyrocket

Fingers crossed.

Just read your other thread and yeah your right the 260 driver is prolly too old for your 560 (nice card). one thing i did notice is that you tried the 290.53 and myself the 290.36, wonder if you can find that? or even if i still have it?.

Stick with what you like i say!. The only apple product I own is a copy of lion, runs fine on my hack but yeah like you I dont feel the apple love. Think its worh you having a play with some linux though even if its just as a vm, you may like it. Anyway let us know how the patient gets on.

What do you see as fp is loading, is the splash displayed on both screens or is the backbox just black?. Also what happens if you ALT-TAB?. will it appear? and also if you do a print screen are both screens showing up?. I had the focus issues you mentioned on a win 7 box once, had to mouse onto the screen before any key press would register. To fix it i played about with the properties of the shortcut and whatever i changed at the time fixed it. Future pinball does work fine on all the drivers apart from the backglass not showing up, if your only on one screen then its not a problem. Dont know what card you have krakerman and i dont want to harp on about 260.99 ( and boy can i harp) but here is a thread about working drivers... http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=13272&highlight=driver&page=3 Of course if the image is just hidden out of focus then this is just mute. As you say it would be cool to get it to work.

Well hopefully the psu will be the cure. Yep I was in the same boat about upgrading I have about 4tb of actual data but mirrored with dupe on so to upgrade i would of needed another 4 tb ,or to just see if whs could free them up if i deleted any back ups and dupe files. . 1.5 tb drives were about £45 and i looked and nearly bought some just before flood. The new vail build of whs is so cheap ms is almost giving it away but as you said it has no drive extender,so is it worth it?. seems like ms has lost interest in home servers but the small business products do seem quite simular, i just have this feeling that I sould scrap it and use unraid or amahi. If you did use an external drive as a back up atleast then you could stash it at someone elses house. On the book front its a good old paperback but if you want it its yours dont worry about shipping. As for ssd I am about to build a starwars cab next week and am seriously considering a 30gb ssd for a 2game mame cab what with todays pricing!. Anyway hope this all makes sence as i now have a good bottle of red in me!.

Also on a brighter note so that it does not suck quite as bad to be you, you scruffy little nerf herder, I have a copy of whs for dummies you are welcome to have (not that i`m sayin your a dummie or nothin). Pm me if you want it and i`ll throw it across the pond!.

Ok so just had a look at my "server back up" and it only contains some dat files of whats on drive and then just the copied folders and no hidden system files, so its just data backed up. Whs says its backed up but i guess it just cares about the folders. Had a bit of a think about this and what i would do if it was my system, and I am not claiming to be any kind of expert at all but in your situation this is what i would do. First i wouild make back ups of all my other good systems in the house and defo not to the whs, then you could lose the back up database with no real danger. Then can you eliminate the fire damage?. ie do you have other working boxes that were in the same part of house?. Then maybe I would take one of the drives that whs says was failing (and didnt you say you recovered one back to an error free state?) and use this to clone a good install from a good system onto it. Then you could take the original drive out and run from the recovered drive to see if it produces more errors in a good system. Then later if that drive seems fine take out all the other good drives from this good non whs box (to protect them) and put the suspect psu in to then see if this makes the drive play up, and if it does then we know the psu is bad. Like I say i am not saying this is what you should do but its probably what I would. I also know from my own experience that I get more psu fails than drives, not sure if thats true for everyone?. Then again what if its your mobo?. So what does everyone else think is this a worthwhile exercise?.

Ahh right with you now, yep i did do that about a year ago. plugged in a usb 1.5tb drive and it just asked what folders to back up/copy over, no mention was made of the sys drive but maybe a hidden file is on it too?. Do you have duplication enabled? maybe if you add more healthy drives to the pool whs may then move data from a sick drive over?( you would hope). That being said at some point you are going to have to shell out for some new drives, its just if you can wait it out untill prices drop. I also agre with the other poster who pointed the finger at your psu, if you had not had the fire then i would be sure it was failing. But factoring in said fire then i have no idea of its effect, but maybe for piece of mind some more shopping is needed. Wasnt that what you president wanted?. Tell you what, later today I will pull out that back up drive to see what hidden folder are on it.

Thats odd!, maybe the 260.99 will solve it?. What happens if you swap the playfield and backbox screens around in the fp screen config or mess with the resolutions, is it still black when on the other screen?.

Big fan of acronis, even used an enterprise version to image and restore linux partitions from within windows and it has never failed to restore yet. But that being said my paranoia has kicked in and my weekly sunday morning imaging session now has me using macrium reflect free also.

Wow i did not know you can back up the system drive now, will have to have a look. Yeah I am on ver 1 aswell, dont see the need to upgrade. I only built the system to test whs and then kept it. I keep thinking that I should change to unraid or such like as really i just use it as a nas, dont use it for back ups or the website stuff. So if you do put a new sys drive in and use the rebuild option dont you keep your data but lose the back up database or am i mistaken?.

Hi, future pinball is really pickie about drivers, the 260.99 nvidia ones work for a second screen but any newer ones wont display. The beta 290.43 (think 43) one works on my system but any inbetween dont. If you are on ati then i dont have a clue sorry. The other thing is that you have ticked the box to enable the backbox?. Hope this is of some help.

Heres some light reading if you are really worried abbout your sys drive... http://www.mediasmartserver.net/2010/01/17/forum-spotlight-how-to-successfully-clone-and-upgrade-a-whs-system-drive/ Thought about upgrading mine a while back then read this and did not bother!. At least if it does go your data drives are still readable in any pc. Good luck, and yeah the prices of drives at the mo sucks.

This is the sort of product that I use a lot... http://www.formica.com/ Its about the thickness of a credit card though!. But once its on and you have trimmed it with a router then smoothed the edges it will be a bit above your t-molding. However if you go around the edge with a black marker pen and as long as the edge is smooth its not that obvious. Last year I retro laminated a cab just as you are planning with great results. I am in the uk so cant really help with venders sorry.

Have to say that I love hyperPIN but that I find hyperspin too cartoonish as a mame fe, I like something a bit more menu driven like gameex.

Seems to be a proof of concept for the direction he believes it should go in.

So I have come across this page... http://mamedev.emulab.it/haze/ It seems this guy has combined mame and mess together, anyone played with this yet?. I am guessing the cli may need tweaking for mess (dont use it)?. I have a compiled binery just cant decide if I want to use it, or if it will bring me any gains?.

Well my outlook is that it is something to look forward to!. You dont have all the Uncertainty of youth, you are in a better financial state (hopefully), not trying to hump everything that moves (hopefully, maybe) and dont have anything to prove!. Physically I still feel very able as i have a very active lifestyle and can still rock climb and mountain bike as well as some of the young pups, so i say bring it on! Read a qoute last week that said approximately "a man is not old until regret overtakes ambition". Note to self must find some ambition.

Ha, yeah thought those would be the answers i`d get!. Birthday was a week ago but thanks anyway, thing is I am sure that i feel more immature now than at 30?.

So my question to you is what can I expect now I have somehow reached 40 years old?.

Yeah just think how boring it would be if it was all just plug and play?. Think uvp reads the hyperpin xml for the backglass image name. Have fun.

Just had a look at the two PDF`s that come with the download, and it seems that you need to create the exact same folder structure as hyperpin. You dont need hyperpin just the files in the right place so they will be found, then a quick two line edit of the table script so that uvp is called inplace of pinmame. As long as the server has started it should work as it runs from vp.( I said SHOULD). Hit me up if you want some pre edited tables as I spent a day editing about 150 of them once, that being said I changed a lot of them back when I put a ledwiz in my cab as the two together produce too much lag. The PDF`s are in this download.. http://www.vpforums.org/index.php?automodule=downloads&req=idx&cmd=viewdetail&f_id=2646 Was just about to post when I thought maybe desktop tables would not work so a quick google found this guy on youtube, so yeah it works!. And go on admit it the tweaking is most of the fun!.

No not in gameex but yes on my pincab, but I see no reason why not as the table script calls uvp. What are you trying to do, do you have two screens, and want a fully active desktop on both or just move the DMD to the second?. A quick look at this thread seems to suggest hyperpin is also needed, but maybe just the directory structure. http://www.hyperspin-fe.com/forum/showthread.php?t=6252 But once all set up the tables do launch from vp, so should work from gameex I guess?. If all else fails you could install hyperpin then run it through gameex as an emulator, this will work as I have done this on my mame cab!. Also the new b25 tables have a different and less laggy way of producing this than UVP. Have a go and let us know how you get on

Hello again, So now I can confirm that all issues have been solved!. I am now VERY happy with the results from HLSL and using the setting described in this thread... http://www.mameworld.info/ubbthreads/showflat.php?Cat=&Number=256720&page=&view=&sb=5&o=&vc=1 One thing I noticed whilst playing with the settings is that you need to change or delete the ini in the hlsl folder for each rom for changes to take effect. Also to solve the crappy vector issue I used a vector.ini with the settings below hlsl_enable 0 gamma 2 contrast 2 bean 2 flicker 1 Hope this can help someone else out!.

Yeah will put her back in!. Think I know what happened earlier as I have just upgraded to the 280 driver again with he same corruption. The mame.ini changes somehow and the vector setting that I use have a gamma and brightness and contrast value that mame reads and uses, if i delete those then it reads the normal gamma and brightness value elseware in the ini. For me this ruins my vector config as I like thick bright vectors, if hlsl is on then my vector games look junk. Think I need to either have a mame.ini and a vector.ini (does this work?) or just have an HLSL install and a vector one. Anyway thats a job for tomorrow, need to get to bed gotta be up at 4.00am, and can no longer spell for shot! P.s I guess this is now solved can someone mark it as such?.