[G4] VGA Monitor on a Mac G3

[Tony Gamble]

Also check the pins on the monitor cable to be sure there are none 
broken.  I had a similar situation happen to me and, upon close 
examination, discovered that one of the pins had broken off and was 
still lodged in the PC's VGA port.  So every time I moved the monitor 
back to the PC, it worked fine; try it on the Mac... no go.  It was 
very confusing until I found that broken pin!

Tony

On 28-May-05, at 11:20 AM, Johns Maillist wrote:

>
> On May 28, 2005, at 12:16 AM, Ron Michael wrote:
>
>> I recently tried to hook up a Compag 140 VGA monitor to my Mac G3 266 
>> Desktop w/ OS 9.2.2. The Compaq worked fine on my PC. It's hooked to 
>> the Mac VGA adapter I used previously on the Mac G3. When I "startup" 
>> it blinks for a second or two then goes blank. Anyone have a clue as 
>> to what might be wrong? This happens on normal startup. I tried to 
>> boot from my System 9.0 disk and the same thing happens.
>
> Check the dip switches, they are usually the problem. They vary from 
> card to card and or monitor to monitor
>
> John
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