I have been very Blessed to have been given this PVM. First I will start by saying that I am a Army guy stationed in Korea right at the DMZ located on a small ROK (Republic of Korea) camp called Camp Bonifas. One day I went up to my roommate who is the S6 noncommissioned officer in charge while at work to ask Mr. Kim a question on obtaining a PVM here in Korea. When I finally got through to him he said lets go talk to Mr. Kang he knows all about that stuff. Mr. Kang is the camps go to guy on everything electrical and also he is in charge of all our wiring and security stuff on the camp. When we got to his little building Mr. Kim informed him on what I was trying to obtain. He said wait a PVM and I said yes a PVM like in production video monitor.
He said oh those old things. Well low and behold he bent over and under his work table which mind you holds all kinds of testing electrical equipment and meters and stuff. He pulled out exactly what I was searching for, for the past 3 weeks in Korea. I quickly go to assist and pick up the little warrior of a monitor as I set it atop the work table. He immediately plugs it in and it turns on with out flaw. Long story was he bought it brand new in japan for calibration and other things back in 2000. Serial number 2018167 manufactured August 2000. Hours I am not sure as it was not used in the production aspect being he has been working on the camp since the early 90’s wit h this little guy.
The best thing about is he gives it to me……………….FOR FREE and says merry christmas, he says I don’t need it to heavy in his Korean accent. I go to give Mr. Kang a big Ass hug and say thank you Mr. Kang. He even gives 3 BNC to RCA adapters with it. I take it to my room knowing that at first I was gonna go the XRGB Mini route but I said SHIT……. not for now I ain’t
. I plug it in and I noticed that the screen is condensed on all sides hmmmmm. I go straight to the world wide web LoL and start looking up fixes for it and reasons why the red green and blue line was resting at the top of the screen where it was being cut off. Everything appears to work and the thing was very well cared for. I recently downloaded a service manual of this PVM and started to adjust the settings in the service mode according to page 17 under the STD settings for example NOR 50 DEF H FREQUENCY MAX STD
255 85
So I would adjust my monitor to that if it wasn’t on it and all of the other settings which took a hot minute.
I don’t have a overdrive so I will be looking at getting the 240p test suite downloaded on the Wii and fine tuning the PVM with that as well since I don’t have any other way of adjusting geometries.
Now my question for you guys is what else can I do to solve red green and blue lines at the top of the screen issue?
P.S.
Now Ido remember Mr. Kang plugging some test device into the PVM and showing me that it works and I was reading through the service manual and it did say that. Also the link to the past is from the Wii VC and the other game is off my Saturn.
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“When the monitor is in the under scan mode, the dark RGB scanning lines may appear on the top edge of the screen. These are caused by an internal test signal, rather than the input signal.”
