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[isaacmacdonald]

Well, after only about 10 months of service, my 19" sony is having troubles with the vga connector. It seems like one of the pins got pushed back into the head of the male connector. I attempted to pull it back out, but only managed to break off the end of the pin that was sticking out. <grrr>. Anyway, after a couple attempts of inserting other pins of a similar guage into the head, I've come up with close to nill (my only success being a bit of a paperclip that worked fine, but needed the cord to be pulled into a certain position with a tremendous amount of tension).

Soooo.... I'm about to cut this cable open and sodder on a new head, but I have no clue if there is going to be color coded wires inside or what. Has anyone done this before? Should I just give it to the pc guys who want to charge me $100?

Finally, the one oddity I noticed was that both of my other 17" trinitrons only have 14 pins on the male side (missing #3 in the middle row). Is 15 pins the actual standard, or is 14 the norm?

Thanks for the help-

 

[Bacinator]

I make cables, and it is a pain in the butt. Yeah, there are probably color coded wires inside, and no way for a non-tech to determine where they should be pinned out. The techs will probably open your monitor, and check the connections on the inside, correlating the configuration to the outside pin. And it usually takes a while. It takes me about an hour to do a 25-pin cable, which I do all the time. Having to search for the right config, and playing with monitor cables probably is fairly taxing... $100 isn't a bad deal.

 

[Spikey289]

Its really not a bad price. I bought a monitor for 5 bucks just for someone who needed it and the end was destryoed. I worked with my dad and we opened it up to find that it had a connecter connecting the vga cable to the board inside the monitor so we just got a new standard vga cable and plugged in to the monitor on the inside and it worked. But if its soldered on the inside i would let a pro do it.

 

[GilletteCat]

14 is the norm! If this is, infect, the pin - it is not what's causing you problems! And stop sticking metallic sharp objects where they don't belong
Seriously though, you said that if under tension and in a certain direction, you could get the desirable results. This, almost certainly, points to a much simpler problem - your VGA cord.