offensive_Jerk
Veteran Member
I got this CRT monitor for free a while ago. The guy neglected to mention there is some sort of break in the cable, where the red color drops out and takes a lot of fiddling to get it working.
There may also be a short in the cable as well. When I had it hooked up to my 386, the thing would sometimes go crazy. I wonder if something was shorting out and causing the VGA card to act strange. It would sometimes go black and white. The bios would report that it's in VGA color mode, but DOS apps and Win 3.11 would think it's in monochrome mode. Even after rebooting. Randomly upon certain reboots the color would come back.
Anyway, this is a great looking monitor save for the issue in the cable. Have any of you repaired these or know of a replacement cable? I don't really want to cut the cable open and start splicing and soldering wires together if I can help it.
I figured someone may know of a more clever solution.
Viewsonic by offensive_jerk, on Flickr
Viewsonic by offensive_jerk, on Flickr
There may also be a short in the cable as well. When I had it hooked up to my 386, the thing would sometimes go crazy. I wonder if something was shorting out and causing the VGA card to act strange. It would sometimes go black and white. The bios would report that it's in VGA color mode, but DOS apps and Win 3.11 would think it's in monochrome mode. Even after rebooting. Randomly upon certain reboots the color would come back.
Anyway, this is a great looking monitor save for the issue in the cable. Have any of you repaired these or know of a replacement cable? I don't really want to cut the cable open and start splicing and soldering wires together if I can help it.
I figured someone may know of a more clever solution.
Viewsonic by offensive_jerk, on FlickrViewsonic by offensive_jerk, on Flickr