On 1/1/06 19:33, Joe B wrote:
But when I unpacked and then looked at both items, I can see my CRT monitor is
connected to a small socket on the card (is this a VGA socket? I just can't
remember the terminology nowadays)- and there is another longer multi-pin
socket on the card that looks similar to but still definitely different from the
plug on the captive lead on the monitor. The other larger socket on the
computer's display card is roughly about 1.5 inches long, has a three long rows
of ten pin-sockets and a bit at one end that is something like cross-shaped, and
both ends of the socket are rounded. I've never used it, I don't think, and have
used CRT monitors plugged into the smaller old (?) socket.
Sounds like an ADC connector. Does it look like the picture about a
third of the way down Apple's support page telling G4s apart?
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=58418>
You mention later on that you've got a 667MHz, which from the chart
seems to confirm that you've got ADC and VGA connectors.
[In fact the monitor has three captive leads that are all kept together in a
bundle- one ends in a complex multi-pin plug, one in a USB plug and one in
something looking a little like a phono line socket- these are described in the
manual as being for display, usb (there are usb sockets on the monitor surround)
and audio].
The ADC connector was designed to replace at least two of those leads
(video and USB) and included power as well. Unfortunately Apple have
phased it out and gone for DVI like everybody else.
You can get connectors/adapters:
<http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?code=0123-ADE2>
though I can't recommend any because...er...I'm still using good old VGA ;-)
Hope this helps,
Neil
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