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How to fix a monitor...

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Well, the other day I "accidently" broke one of the pins to the monitor plug and now everything is pretty much yellow. I was wondering if there was a way to fix it without having to send the monitor in. Could I buy a new head or a complete new wire? I noticed that the wire starts from inside the monitor, if i were to replace the whole wire, how would it connect on the inside?
 
you can buy a monitor cable and splice the wires color to color.This will be behind your pc desk so no one will see it.If you have to send it to the shop,this 'experiment'wont hurt a thing,and if it works...
 
Depends on whether it is under warranty and if your warranty covers that kind of damage..possibly not. Call the tech support and see if they even will repair it reasonable..or have your local shop give you an estimate. If it is not economically repairable including costs of getting to and from repair facility or if you will be down a long time..then it you may want to repair yourself. Squirrel Dog has a good idea..splice on another end from another cable. Another option is if your monitor uses a 5BNC cable you could use it instead by purchasing the appropriate cable. Or if you just dont like the monitor it gives you an excuse to get a new one.. 🙂
 
I've done this to two (2) monitors in the past. Threw the first away. Replaced it with a Packard Bell (shhh. quit laughing.) that was on sale at Best Buy that week. Promptly broke a pin on the D-shell of that one 13 months later (1 month out of warranty, imagine that). I took it in to a local PB repair facility. They kept it for 2 weeks before telling me they couldn't get the part (I guess a new cable) anywhere in the country. I didn't bother picking the thing back up, told them to just throw it in the dumpster out back.

So, I learned my lesson and only buy monitors that have a replaceable VGA cable on the back of em. Of course, that replacement monitor decided to develop a blue tint to it 18 months later that I couldn't figure out. That gave me a good excuse to finally move up to a 17" last year.
 
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