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Main => Main Forum => Topic started by: vetteguy112233 on June 16, 2008, 10:18:13 pm
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I'm trying to make a cable that I can connect my arcade monitor to my ArcadeVGA card with, but the 3 cables I've torn apart are all different. None have the RGB, Groud and V/H sync on pins 1,2,3, 5, 13 and 14. See the pic that I've attached. Are newer monitor cables different? I know the newer stuff is SVGA, but I thought they were all the same. Should a standard monitor cable match the 15 pin diagram attached?
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Yes. They all should. It is a standard,
otherwise the VGA port that you plug them into would not work correctly. otherwise the three you have torn apart would have never worked with a PC's VGA output.
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Yes. They all should. It is a standard, otherwise the VGA port that you plug them into would not work correctly. otherwise the three you have torn apart would have never worked with a PC's VGA output.
....meaning, if you (vette) are telling them apart by wire color, don't. They worked, so you can safely assume the pinout is correct, and hook up accordingly.
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ive just made a mame scart, i used a vga extention lead, i metered all pins on plug to the ones i stripped off .
i marked them down and chopped ones of i didnt need then wired them to scart.
if your stuck then go to local electronics store and buy a vga socket and housing and wire fresh wires to that.
the diagram is available on this great site.
now to try it out on my avga
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The only change in VGA cables is the "unused" pins are used to identify the monitor to the computer. (Explanation of differences (http://pinouts.ru/Video/VGA15_pinout.shtml))
Everything else is the same, which means the RGB, H & V-sync and gnd are the same as the diagram.
Question: how can you tell the pin out on the cable have changed? All the cables do is connect pin 1 on one side to pin 1 on the other, pin 2 to pin 2, etc. Are you using non-VGA cables that aren't straight through cables?