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Petesie:
My Ultimarc vga card arrived today and as i had a couple of old monitors lying around i decided to be miserable and have a go at making my own vga breakout cable.  i cut the vga cable of my monitor and striped the wire back - here goes,
there are 9 wires of which 3 are considerably bigger than the other remaining 6 wires.

really what im asking for is does anyone know of a step by step diagram of how i complete this small task - i have read ultimarcs site but would prefer a stp by step.
ive been googling all day to no avail, everyone whos mamein a cabinet talks of it but no pictures at all.

any and all help would be most appreciated

peter

divemaster127:
Ultimarc sells the cable for $12.00

Petesie:
i know he sells it for £8 but wanted to make my own first and if i mess it up( i have 2 to wreck dont forget) i will buy 1 but in the meantime i wanna make it

Petesie:
anyone got any easy to see pictures - when you click on the ultimarc picture it doesnt enlarge so i can see it - all i want is to see it close up - can anyone help?????

8way:
Just get a 2 male DB15 connector and a some Cat 5 cable. You only need pins 1,2,3,13,14, & GROUND. Just follow the pinouts found here http://www.bbdsoft.com/video.html. You can also use a old monitor cable, if you have a dead old or unused monitor. Just cut the cable, and just get 1 male DB15 connector and mach up the wires(you need a multimeter to do this) or you could just try to mach up the colors. RED, GREEN, BLUE, BLACK(Ground) are no problem to find cause their universal their allways going to be that color. The hard ones to locate are the to Syncs, they usually vary in color depending on the monitors manufacturer. Anyways hope this helps. On a side note, don't know if you have a local store around you that sells male 2 male DB15 cables, but if you do you can get one for about as much as it cost for the parts to make one which is still cheaper then Ultimarc. And if you go with the old monitor cable and a DB15 connector that would cost you next to nothing, or if you had two old monitors to cannibalise then it would cost you absolutely nothing. ;D

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