u/computinator9000

Strange issue, newb here. I have a bunch of VPX tables and on all of them I hit f1, show and use external DMD, and then I reposition said DMD to lay over the grill on the backglasses on my second monitor. Works fine for all of them, and I've tried probably around 30.

But it seems like the DMD is broken for exactly one table, and that is VPW's Medieval Madness. I believe the DMD worked at first, but now it shows up as a big black square and doesn't turn on. Stays black. I can resize it horizontally, but not vertically. Anyone have any idea how to "factory reset" the DMD for one table?

I am using VPX, VPinMAME, everything installed within the last month with Baller Installer

Hi, I ordered parts and built my PC and then saw posts about ASRock boards "blowing out" Ryzen processors.

How afraid do I have to be about this? Some folks handwave the issue away, but others just plainly say "ASRock sucks." This board had decent enough reviews and I found a B-stock deal on an ASRock B850M Pro RS WiFi.

Are there contributing factors I ought to be aware of and avoid?

To get out ahead of one of them: I'm new to PC building and configured this PC using the pcpartspicker website. The website said this configuration would be OK with a Corsair RM750x PSU. Only when my RTX 5080 arrived did I see that Nvidia recommends an 850W+ PSU. But opinions online seem mixed. Am I more likely to run into a motherboard blowout of my CPU if I'm potentially underpowering my rig?

Hi, I'm getting all turned around trying to google this. Talk to me like I'm an idiot.

I have an RTX 5080 that came with a power cable adapter that has 3 connectors on it. Each connector wants 8 pins from the PSU, or 2x4, not sure which to call it.

The PSU is apparently modular and has four 8-pin spots for connections. They say "CPU/PCIe" above them. This implies interchangeability to me.

However, it came with only two 8-pin cables that say PCIe on them, and two 8-pin cables that say CPU. They both say Type4 as well.

Must I only use the cables that say PCIe with my 5080? Meaning I'm one cable short?

Or can I use one of the CPU cables? Some googling is telling me CPU and PCIe cables are different and could destroy the 5080, but then I am confused why the PSU says "PCIe/CPU" on it as if they are interchangeable.

I have built a super cheapo cardboard controller for VPX, two flipper buttons for now. I've confirmed the controller works by opening joy.cpl and hitting the flipper buttons. They are mapped to buttons 1 and 2. I've then gone into the Virtual Pinball button settings of my Dr. Dude VPX table to test it and set the flippers to buttons 1 and 2. But nothing happens. L and R shift still work as mapped.

I've noticed this before with my Xbox controller. I found the buttons numbers for that controller but they did not match the numbers I was mapping to things in Visual Pinball. And the two shoulder buttons on my Xbox controller did not seem to work no matter what button numbers I used for them.

What am I not getting?

edit: well, JoyToKey solved the issue, even if I still don't understand the cause