Monitor

[broomhead]

yep, well I jut got a monitor that something was going to throw out. It would turn on, and the screen would light up a little but nothing would show. Just a connection problem between the computer and the monitor, I will check the pins when I get home

[wrongun92]

I'v gotten so many free crt monitors that " don't work " from friends and work , most just had a bent pin on the cable that I carefully straightened then passed on to friends . First thing I would check tho .

checked the pins, still not working.

Any other tricks?

After checking more thoroughly, I found that two pins were missing out of the total 15 that were supposed to be there

Now my question is , is it possible to fix this? Can I just insert pins, and is it possible to buy these from a local stoe?

[backlash]

I believe it's supposed to be missing a pin or two.

[wrongun92]

Ok did some researching after knowing that some pins are suppose to be missing. It seems for Ibm computers that pins 5,9, and 13 can be left out on purpose as they do no have a funtion.



Here is the pin layout:
1 red
2 green
3 blue
4 ID bit
5 n/c
6 red ground
7 green ground
8 blue ground
9 n/c
10 ground
11 ID bit 11
12 ID bit 12
13 H sync / Composite
14 V sync
15 n/c

I was missing 5 and 9 which is alright. So something else must be the problem