Sun GDM-20D10 monitors

Okay. Depending on your degree of general dexterity, how good you are with your hands in general, you may or may not find yourself capable of dealing with soldering up a serial cable if you try. (Unless you have already tried and know you're bad at it, of course.) Heh. I'm sure there are plenty of things I would envy you for if I knew about them. (Actually, there quite possibly is one I know about: it is likely that English is not your native language, in which case I envy you your competence in a second language. Your English is much better than my French, French being my second-best language.) Ah, I was thinking the soldering discussion was about making a console cable to connect the U10 to your...Ampex, was it? Fixing a monitor...tony may shudder, but I mostly haven't even bothered trying. The one time I fixed one was a while ago when a flat-screen failed due, apparently, to bad electrolytic capacitors; they were bulging visibly, so I replaced them and it's worked fine ever since. Of course, the monitors that I "mostly haven't even bothered trying" to fix have not been nearly as nice as your GDM-20D10s. You don't. Well, not to me, at least. You're asking intelligent questions - elementary questions, many of them, but at your present level of knowledge that's to be expected. And you appear to be learning from the responses you get. As far as I am concerned, this adds up to you quite definitely *not* being part of the problem. Well, the symptom is sufficiently vague that I, at least, can't say much useful; there are a lot of possible causes for the symptom you're seeing, from a blown fuse to a fried pwoer supply to an onboard ASIC that handles the pwoer switch being fried to half a dozen other things. Without enough skills and tools to at least take them apart and start making diagnostic measurements, I'm not sure what I can suggest. About the only hopes I can hold out are: (1) if there is someone physically nearby who *does* have the necessary skills and/or tools, you may be able to collaboratively deal with them and learn in the process; (2) if you have the storage space, you might just shelve them and undertake to learn enough to be able to deal with them in, say, a month, a year, however long it takes you; (3) the problem might be something as simple as a blown fuse or a connector come loose (but without the expertise to identify possible causes and test for them, I'm not sure this is much help). I'd love to be the "someone" in case (1), but that's not really practical unless you're near Ottawa or Montreal, which seems unlikely. /~\ The ASCII Mouse \ / Ribbon Campaign X Against HTML mouse at rodents-montreal.org / \ Email! 7D C8 61 52 5D E7 2D 39 4E F1 31 3E E8 B3 27 4B