27 Nov
2007
27 Nov
'07
7:10 a.m.
Liam Proven wrote:
(Since no-one seemed to notice this as a comment to an
older thread...)
I recently got given a decent 21" colour monitor with a DB13W3
connector on it. Never used one of these before.
In the same pile of stuff was a Mac video connector to DB13 cable.
I've tried this on an old Beige G3, and also via an SVGA-Mac convertor
on a PC. It gives a good sharp picture, but on both systems, red and
green were reversed.
Does this mean my cable's incorrectly wired up or doesn't belong to
this monitor, or is that something to do with using a DB13 monitor on
a modern PC?
I wouldn't say the cable is wired incorrectly; it's just not wired
for that connection. DB13W3 has been used with a lot of different pinouts.
I have used several monitors with 13W3 connectors on both PCs and
late-model Macs. There are a lot of cables and adapters floating around
for HD15-DB13W3 connections. The only one I've seen (not a valid sample
set!) that won't work is a black Dell cable. One of their 17"
workstation tubes was 13W3, and not a standard pinout at all.
Doc