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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: Bobboau on September 14, 2005, 10:12:11 pm
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so, in my house we have three computers, mine, the univac of the house, my sister's a laptop with a beterylife all of five picoseconds, and the downstairs computer, a compaq cheap pos that serves primaraly as an internet portal for my mom. the downstairs computer is the focus of this story.
we got the cheapest barest system we could get, this means no monitor, but no problem we got one the same way we got the laptop, mom 'needing it' for work, well actualy it came with the laptop, but anyway, it's some sort of odd sony LCD thing with a powered box between the VGA outlet and the actual monitor, and the biitch of the situation is this propriatary non-standart cable between this majical box and the monitor, that and the giant mut dog my aunt found and made us take care of for a week untill a home could be found, it was a realy nice dog, very frendly loved to be around people, to the point that when she wasn't she turned into a relentless engine of destruction, tearing down window blinds, ripping up the carpet, and yes you guessed it, chewing threw the mouse keyboard and unreplaceable monitor cable, well... shit.. mom takes it back to work, they can't figure it out, I finaly get her to bring it back so I can try to mend it, and here is were I can tell sony is the anti-christ, I split the cewed up end of one of the halves of the cable, and I am greeted with 17 godamned _all blue_ wires no only do I have 17 tiny wires to solder back together but I have to rig up a circut tester out of a batery pack, a forcept, an LED, and a dental pick, and one by one clamp on to a wire, touch each pin on the conector, lable the wire with a lable (that I had to print out and cut a part and tape with a loop of scotch individualy) tape it, for each of the 26 pins (13 on each side) on the conector, and then I'v got to do the same thing to the other side!
godamn!
17
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If it helps, 17 is a prime number. ;)
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That really sucks.
Next time a dog comes around give it one o them rawhide bones, kept my dog from chewin cables for 3 years. But it ate a battery once.:D
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Originally spoken by Meg:
"What do you mean, 'cut the blue wire'? They're ALL blue wires!"
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Get a new monitor.
Not worth the time.
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man, no kidding
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I would but the money tree I planted hasn't born so much as a single fruit... maybe it needs more fertiser...
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What happened to the dog after all that? :D
Sony is really notorious for proprietary connectors and interfaces, but their computer monitors are generally top notch and don't have such issues. It sound like this one is actually designed for something different and uses a converter (the box) so you can use it with a computer.
If it helps, 17 is a prime number. ;)
My first thought too. :D
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The Connector Conspiracy claims another victim...
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[color=66ff00]If it makes you feel any better checking on the entire conductor (between each terminating pin) is just a good idea anyhow, every so often you'll get a bad wire to pin connection from the cable being yanked or fatigued. It also tells you if the soldering job was good.
Still, 17 identical wires is a bit of a head wrecker. :no:
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does anyone have any information regarding the sdm-n50 that might prove usefull? particularly in regards to the 'system conector' cable.
I went one by one, alligned the wires one to one hopeing this is what it was suposed to be like, pluged it together for a moment it looked like all my work might have done it, but alass, all I get is a blinking amber light that should be solid green
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I bought a 17 inch LG flatscreen with USB connectors (old monitor) for like $50. No real money tree needed.
Newspaper personal ads rule.
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have I mentioned that I'm also assininely hard headed and stuborn, and that I WILL ****ING FIX THIS VISUAL FEEDBACK DEVICE FROM HELL! DAMN THE COST!!!... have I mentioned that?
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:lol:
Go for it then.
God knows I'm cheering for you.
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i think your nuts .... but noone cares what i think .... so do it!
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there are 13 contacts on either side of the plug, makeing a total of 26 posable conectors, 17 of them are the blue wires and three more of them go for the power suply, so there are a total of 20 actual conections and there does seem to be five dead conectors, there should be 6 though one of them may be hooked into the ground.
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Maybe you should see about buying a new cable?
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[color=66ff00]I've been looking at this Bob, basically the cable relies on shielded, twisted pairs. Since it's running a gigabit video signal over the conductor any significant noise would have a fairly drastic effect on the video feed from the box to the screen so a patch job would probably not be a great idea.
I think you should buy a replacement GVIF cable.
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