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km987654 · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 2:25 am Post subject: Strange CRT Lumagen Activity

I was reading posts on active area scanning and decided to try 800p. When I saved the setting and the Lumagen restarted there was no image at all no matter what I tried. I had to reset to factory default to get things going. Now both the projector and Lumagen should be able to display that resolution and in fact when I dialed that in everything was operating with the new resolution but after pressing "save" it all went south.

My projector is basically a Barco graphics 808s with 9 inch Sony tubes and the scaler is a Lumagen Vision PRO HDP. Both the Lumagen and the projector are capable of much more and I have set them at much higher resolutions without any problem. In between the Lumagen and the source is a Moome Mux HD.

I have not yet determined if it was the PJ or Lumagen or Mux HD that had a fit.

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 5:10 am Post subject:

You know I have seen the Moome stuff not like some custom resolutions. I was using the internal IFB Moome cards though in a PC1271 switcher.

km987654 · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:28 am Post subject:

**AnalogRocks** · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:41 am Post subject:

How do you have it all hooked up?

Nashou66 · Joined: 12 Jan 2007 Posts: 16171 Location: West Seneca NY

Hmm, can you try another output from the lumagen like an s-video if your PJ can accept it?

Athanasios

CIR Engineering · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:12 pm Post subject:

Have you simply tried again? You may have hit a glitch that won't happen on a second try.

craigr

km987654 · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:45 pm Post subject:

km987654 · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:49 pm Post subject:

km987654 · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 9:53 pm Post subject:

CIR Engineering · Posted: Mon Sep 10, 2012 10:03 pm Post subject:

The Lumagen should not be shutting down upon saving. You most likely have a bad power brick for your Lumagen.

You can restore your Lumagen to factory default settings without a GUI. Enter service mode by pressing "menu-0-9-1-0" and then press "menu-0-9-9-9." Make sure the green LED blinks on each button push. When the Lumagen comes back online you must save to retain the factory reset.

You may also have a corrupt firmware. You can try reinstalling the firmware with the Lumagen powered on. If the firmware does not take, you can do a "force" firmware update.

Unplug the Lumagen from power. Get the firmware software setup and ready to go. Put the tick in "forced" update. Plug in the Lumagen and within 10 seconds execute the forced update. With a forced update you must make absolutely certain that you have the correct firmware for your model.

craigr