Replying to VGA Monitor Cable Problems

I reconnected my computer after disconnecting for carpet install. After reconnecting, my computer screen image is all red. An error message of Check video cable came up. I assume that is the VGA cable. Disconnected, reconnected cable. Same result. Pins aren't bent, good connection. Ideas? - Thanks, Kip 

Sorry if I missed this in a reply, but I wanted to touch on it.  VGA consists of really 5 pins: Red, Green, Blue, Horizontal Sync, and Vertical Sync.  There are also 5 connections that must be made in addition to these, which are the 5 ground wires for each of these 5 main pins (RGBHV).  The rest of the pins do not matter at all, but may be handy when hooking up to a sophisticated system.  One thing to note here is that in any VGA head, all the grounds are touching, and that is fine.  These 5 connections are made in pins 1, 2, 3, 13, and 14, so as long as your VGA has those pins and their connections (RGBHV respectively) made, and the ground soldered across the middle pins, it should transmit a VGA signal.  The heads are finicky however, and go bad frequently, so check the above connections and make sure they are solid.  Strain relief on your VGA is very important.  Lastly, there should be no problem carrying the signal though a long cable, I have sent unamplified VGA up to 200 feet before any problems occurred.  

hi ive tried hooking up my desktop PC to my tv via a vga cable. Then I go to PC mode. Then it comes up saying incorrect signal, any ideas on how to fix this?

T.V. Is a sony Bravia40"

My parents have a Dell flat screen monitor and at times the screen is fine but then all of the sudden it has a green/yellowish tint to it.  I've done the factory reset on the monitor.  Unplugged the cables and plugged them back in (that seemed to fix it for about 2-3 minutes.)  The monitor is not that old and I would hate for it to be the monitor.  Could it be the 15-pin cable?  Do those go bad?

 Could it be their video card?  Their computer is about as old as the monitor.  Maybe about 2 years old or newer!

Model # SE198WFP LCD Flat Panel

I'm connecting my monitor to my laptop because the screen is broken along with they keyboard. Because I have no keyboard I'm having to use an external keyboard how ever because it is external it doesnt have the 'FN' button so I cant synchronize them anyone know how to use a normal keyboard to do this?

Hello everyone, I have a 15 pin vga cable that is like 4-5 FT long, when my computer was close to my TV I would connect my computer with TV without a problem, now I moved my computer to another room and bought another VGA 15 pin cable that is 16Ft long, when I connect my PC with the TV I get a message "NO SUPPORT". The short cable works the long cable doesn't work (they both have 15 pins and look identical to me) by the way the long cable works on my monitor but not on TV. Anybody knows the solution to this, just don't tell me that the solution is very simple, move your PC to where it was and problem solved :-)

-question by Nunadenisa

My monitor has a 13pin connector to my tower unit and it works perfectly. Now I want to change my monitor from 19 " to a  22 0r 23 wide screen, but  they all seem to have  a 15" going to the PC tower is there a problem if I continue with the purchase ?

Regards 

I have a big issue , I got a new pc with AMD Phenom II x3 710 , GB MA784GT-UD3H , 2 GB DDR3 RAM , 500 W.D HD and case with 350 HEC Power supply . I have an old Samsung VGA Monitor .

The issue is that each time I try to start up the system while the monitor cable is plugged , it doesn't start at all , when I unplug the cable and start without it , it starts normally and then I can re-plug the cable .

Can u guys help me about this ?