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Any ideas on what I found? Sun monitor

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Was throwing away some recyclables and noticed a big monitor sitting off to the side. It did not look like anything was wrong with it other than the fact that it might have been sitting in storage for awhile(spiderwebs and stuff) The screen looked good and it was probably 19-20". This makes my Ferrengi ears pop out and I wrestle it out and get a good look at it. The first thing I noticed was a Sun logo on the bottom left hand corner of the front. I'm somewhat disappointed until I check out the connector and see that it is a VGA(WTF?) connector going all the way into the back of the monitor, did not even have a convertor like some I have seen. It has 4 round nobs on the front approximately 3/4" in diameter for you to adjust the display. I attempt to pick it up. Good lord, I bet the thing weighs 75-80 lbs. I lug it up to my apartment on the 3rd floor, clean it off and plug it in (We have juice, this is good). I plug it in to my secondary computer Windows XP and a TNT64 video card and fired it up. I now have a display but it is scrolling like what happens on old black and white TV's. I mess with the dials and can't find one that will stop the scrolling. When it advances into the gui stage of windows the screen goes grey.

Any ideas on what the monitor is and if it is salvageable?
It had no markings in the front other than the Sun logo
The model number is listed as GDM-(This part has been cut out for some reason)
Serial number is: 2001-063101

I've looked on the Sun site but I have not seen any monitors.
 
what you found was a Sun monitor. While Sun monitors use the same connectors as a standard VGA monitor, they have different pin outs, thus the scrolling and the grey. I would suggest finding an adapter online someplace and trying it out, but it's likely that if someone was throwing it out, something is wrong with it.

Good luck
 
Originally posted by: draelon
what you found was a Sun monitor. While Sun monitors use the same connectors as a standard VGA monitor, they have different pin outs, thus the scrolling and the grey. I would suggest finding an adapter online someplace and trying it out, but it's likely that if someone was throwing it out, something is wrong with it.

Good luck
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all the Sun monitors that I have worked with have had the proprietary 13x9 connectors or the BNC, this one looked like a VGA 15 pin connector and even dispalyed the dos part correctly although scrolling. I was hoping someone was upgrading and just tossing it.

The adapters that I have seen are the 13x9 to VGA. The monitor says something about special video adapters.
 
See if you can find your salvage here: Sun Monitors.

For some reason Sun monitors are extremely heavy. The 24" I have always break my back when I try to move it. I would be interested to know if anyone figure out how to drive the Sun 24" with widescreen ratio, 1920x1200, under windows. I've tried with PowerStrip to no conclusion.
 
Originally posted by: ys
See if you can find your salvage here: Sun Monitors.

For some reason Sun monitors are extremely heavy. The 24" I have always break my back when I try to move it. I would be interested to know if anyone figure out how to drive the Sun 24" with widescreen ratio, 1920x1200, under windows. I've tried with PowerStrip to no conclusion.
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It looks like this one except it has a HD15 connector

Says it is not pc compatible. Does that mean I can't even get an adapter?
 
Hmmm - that's strange....

I'm currently using an SGI monitor on my DAW - a 21" GDM 5011P (bought slightly 'damaged' for £80...🙂 ) - But I can't find it on their site - (thanks for the link - never really thought to check there before...:-/). It also has two connectors - a normal VGA and a HD15?? (Can't quite remeber the name of it...:-/). The only problems I have with it, is that I can't install any later Catalyst drivers for it - (using 3.2 on a dual-head Radeon 7000VE) - because it 'loses' the resolution I'm running - 1920x1440@85Hz... But if it works, why upgrade??? ;-)

Oh well. perhaps their not selling them anymore???

Oh, and I know what you mean about their monitor's weighing a ton.....!!!

Keill...
 
As near as I can tell it is a modded Monitor in which the 13w3 connector has been removed and switched to a HD15.

So all I would need is a synch convertor to switch it from HD15 to VGA?
 
I actually have a 17" Trinitron Sun on the desk next to me as my secondary monitor, it's not bad (1024x768 max, grr), and it was free from a friend. The plug is extremely weird, small bayonet-style connector and a bunch of pins, but the guy had a converter for it so it works on anything but DOS.

AFAIK, he just Google'd for "sun monitor adaptor" and came up trumps.

Dopefiend
 
Originally posted by: DopeFiend
Try these guys, one of those should work.

Dopefiend
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Thanks but it looks like I will need this
link
It needs something to sync a HD15 input on the monitor to a 15 pin vga connector on the video card
62 bucks shipped *Gasp*

Is this thing even worth it?:
link
 
Ye ole' dumpster diver,

You never know, the monitor may be fine. The guy may have dumped it because he either trashed the computer it was running off or he couldn't figure out how to get it to work and thought it was bad.
Let us know how it works out.


 
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