14 Oct
2008
14 Oct
'08
6:45 p.m.
Brad Parker wrote:
This is something I've never seen before; I'm
trying to revive an old
dead Compaq for a friend of a friend.
I went to plug in a stock VGA cable (15 pin) and it would not go. The
connector on the Dell motherboard (this is a very very old 386) has one
pin blocked.
Someone here must know what that means; what do I do? grab the needle
nose and hack my cable?
Yep! I'm guessing you have a Dell 316sx, like me. I picked a monitor I
didn't care too much about and ripping the pin out. Works great. A lot
of old 8-bit ISA VGA cards have this blocked out, and the Dell
fixed-frequency monitor that came with my 316sx doesn't have this pin in
the cable.
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