just bent the pins for the monitor while rushing!

ones snapped few bent! can they be replaced!!

Si

Plug can be replaced, but them a right pig to do.

I presume it is hard wired at the monitor end, rather than a plug both ends?

yeah it hard plugged in

ive got 2 PCs sat side by side for this dual boot i thought ill try it on mine(P4 pc)

and its worked! thank god! but question now is why doesnt it work on that PC

Other month i did the same! 15gb Hard drive! bent a pin! can they be fixed at all??
it didnt snap just pushed in, pulled it back out you couldnt tell visibly but still doesnt work

Si

you ain't helping yourself here si :)

Get on the phone to a tv repair gaff in the morning. They'll be able to splice a new rgb connector in for you.

Steve

You might get lucky

The pin-outs are:-

Pin# Label Function
1 RED Red color signal
2 GREEN Green color signal
3 BLUE Blue color signal
4 ID2 Monitor identification bit 2
5 N.C. Not Connected
6 GND-RED Ground Red signal
7 GND-GREEN Ground Green signal
8 GND-BLUE Ground Blue signal
9 N.C. Not Connected
10 GND-SYNC Ground Sync signal
11 ID1 Monitor identification bit 1
12 ID0 Monitor identification bit 0
13 H-SYNC Horizontal Synchronization
14 V-SYNC Vertical Synchronization
15 N.C. Not connected

If you look at the monitor plug with wider part of the D at the top. The pins are in three orws of five. Tope row is pin 1-5 Left to right, 2nd row = 6-10, 3rd 11-15.

if the pins that have snapped are not used you should be able to gently bend the others back with some fine nose pliers and get away with - otheriwse you in for some fiddly soldering.

I'd take the Piss like usual but I've done the same years ago when in PC support trying to plug monitors in blind ;)

Deano

thank god it was just the AGP card falling out i was about to cry!

Cheers it was the pin at the bottom on its own!

Si

Think (checks old 14" stashed in corner) thats Pin 11 - "ID1 Monitor identification bit 1".

Not entirely sure what its used for - could be just auto-detection of the monitor - Bend the others back very gently and treat it carefully when you put it in. You may well get away with it :rolleyes:

Deano

have so far :d ! keep praying

BTDTGTTS. It's a right arse. Needle-nosed pliers can sort it out.

From then on, I gave up randomly poking in the dark and made sure I was getting the right hole, so to speak. ;)

lol

well ive just lost 10gb personal data and my ****ing uni work

Why is it partition magic just doesnt like me??

last time XP locked me out this time 2k ****ed its self!

One day i will have linux!

Si

Why are you so obssessed with this dual booting malarky?

DW

Having two OSs on the same drive is dicing with death.

Every time I've needed to run two, I've used separate drives and removed the 'other' one when installing the OS just in case. IE, put a disk in. Install Windows, remove it, put the other one in and install Linux, then put the Windows one back in and switch the boot sequence in the bios to change between them.

Never had any probs that way.

To be honest have had Win2K and Linux coexisintg very well for some time on various boxes. Ensure you install Win2K first and Linux second. Use LILO to control the boot record and there is no reason it wont work.

Deano

i used to use lilo now i use dildo

LOL!

dildo eh ??
cool
i have never used that boot-loader before ;)

lol@ Stoopid_Si

dsmith - that's how I've done it on mine but using XP and Caldera OpenLinux - worked like a charm. Use to use SuSE before with 2000, again, no problems.

Ian

I've had Win98 and Suse on a laptop on one hdd using lilo and had no problems.

Before you start messing about though it is a top idea to backup all your important data.

ha way son you posted SuSe yet :)

Slight problem mate - didn't save MSN text with your address on - d'oh!

E-mail it to me at ian@iantrott.co.uk

tart lol

off soon canny wait :)