I picked up an old monitor that I am working on as a project. I found a power cord for it and determined that it is working properly. The problem is that the cord to connect to the computer is cut off. The monitor connection is internal. I went out and purchased the little stuff and housing needed to make an end to the cable. My question is looking inside the monitor itself, how can I determine which of the 15 wires is which? P.S. monitor is an old dell with a 15 pin VGA connection
see where each of the wires goto on the circuit board(s) & see if there is any writing at each connection. there are 3 thick shielded wires that are red, green & blue, the center wires of each goto pin 1, 2 & 3 in that order & the shield part of the wires goto pin 6, 7 & 8 in that order. pin1 - red, pin2 - green, pin3 - blue, pin6- red ground, pin7 - green ground & pin8 - blue ground. how many wires do you have as not always 15 but usually less?
Yea the main three colors (six pins) seem intuitive enough. I am left with a large black wire (inside is a red and a yellow), and 4 thin wires which are brown, green, white, and black
back track those wires back to the circuit board(s) & see if there is any printing beside those wires.
There is no printed notation of any kind that seems to relate, that I could find. If I just connect the main color wires and their respective grounds, will it work enough to test the monitor and the connection?
need pin 5 for ground, pin 10 for sync ground, pin 13 for horizontal sync & pin 14 for vertical sync.
