14 Oct
2008
14 Oct
'08
11:25 a.m.
Brad Parker said:
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?
The VGA connector specification shows that Pin 9 is not connected and sometimes used as a
key, that is, blocked, see:
http://pinouts.ru/Video/VGA15_pinout.shtml
I doubt it would hurt any future use of the cable to pull/break the pin on your monitor
cable, but if you want to keep that side of things stock, you could use a 1/32" bit
and drill out the position on the motherboard's connector, to allow the pin to pass
through the plastic.
- Jared