Are office people really that, umm shall we say...slow?

-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 19 Oct 2001 15:40 pm, Iggy Drougge wrote: It depends :-) Some monitors (Iiyama springs to mind) just have a connector at the back of the monitor, so you need to use a cable with a male 15-pin D-sub connector (is that right? apologies if it isn't) on both ends. If the cable breaks, you throw it out and replace it with another one. I have a Sony monitor whose cable broke (not by pushing it into a serial port ;-). The only way of replacing this cable would have been to open up the back of the monitor, probably unsolder the cable, and resolder a new one. I'll probably do that when I get back from University. My flat-panel monitor is the same - the cable is connected inside the display - it can't just be pulled out and replaced if it breaks. If I remember correctly, most monitors I've got are like this. It can be accomplished without sending it away, but for most cases, it's far safer/easier to send it back for repair (and it doesn't void the warranty for anyone who cares about such things). Regards, Dan (goes back to lurking again) - -- dankolb(a)ox.compsoc.net - --I reserve the right to be completely wrong about any comments or opinions expressed; don't trust everything you read above--