More problems with my asteroids

Well, got the diode in, insulated well.  I turned it on and asteroids was playing, woohoo!  I decided to turn it off and flip the test switch to see if the expanding problem was solved.  In test mode the screen shows a small greyscale and a hatch pattern across the entire screen.  I turned it on and my monitor when nuts.  The RED led on the circuit bard came on, the hatch pattrn flickered on and off.  The speaker did some high and low beeps.  i flipped it back to the game and in attract mode only the enemy ship and its bullets are visible :(  Sigh, more work to do.

Someone asked me why I dont just get a working monitor.  Easier said than done.  Asteroids uses a vector monitor instead of the usual raster monitor everything else uses.  It draws the shapes directly, not as pixels.  Monitors like that in a form that you can connect to an asteroids havent been made in like 15-20 years.  If you watch ebay you can find one but it will be expensive.  And then you have to worry about the shipping company not breaking the monitor.  Since thee monitors are about 30 years old there is ton of info on them.  My monitor is the WellsGardner 19V2000 which is a direct drop in replacement to the Electrohome G05 (original 19" B&W vector monitor Atari used).  In fact the circuit board is the same and labelled the same for the most part.  The schematics and how to fix info is readily available for these monitors.  Theres even a vector monitor mailing list available for help.