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by MonMotha » Mon Feb 27, 2006 6:23 pm
It's not a plasma. It's a giant CRT, and Windows may have some trouble talking to it. XP doesn't like to go below 800x600 without coaxing, but the monitor (at least the older GX models, not sure about the new "OMG THAT'S FREAKING HUGE" flat CRTs) absolutely requires 640x480@60Hz (it is progressive, though). Hardly a high-res monitor by computer standards.
It would probably be easiest to just sit another computer next to the cabinet rather than use their system unit. Swapping hard drives on the thing is far from a trivial exercise mechanically, and the way their pump images are set up, they won't cooperate at all with Windows on the same HDD (then again, Windows doesn't like to cooperate with anything, so that's not surprising). Their machine isn't particularly powerful as far as running FPSs goes, either. It has a paltry 256MB of RAM, a 1.6GHz (IIRC) Celeron, and an FX5200 (which, while decent, is far from fast). It isn't really built for running the memory hog that is Windows.
Go ahead and figure out what kind of board you'll be getting. If it's a new machine, it should come with an MK6 and you won't need to bother with anything. Only old Exceed and very early Exceed 2 machines should have MK5s in them it seems. I can't easily just go look up the model number on the motherboard as that requires taking apart the system unit, which is at the Ho-house, and requires a decent bit of time to do. Besides, and MK5 will run Zero anyway, and why spend money on something you don't need when the next version of Pump may require something new anyway?
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