Is it possible to repair the VGA connector on the back of a computer monitor?
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October 18th, 2007
I just got a new monitor, put it in the trunk of my car, and drove off without realizing that the vga cable was dangling out the end. By the time I found out, it had been hopelessly deformed by hitting against the road. The other end of the cable is hardwired into the monitor. Is there any (cheap) way to fix this? Does anybody sell replacement vga plugs? I could lop off the dead plug and solder a new one on, but I neither have a new plug nor do I know which wires to connect where.
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I dunno if this is the same, but my 27” LCD TV which is connected with my laptop via VGA, flickers. When I connect it, the screen begins to flicker red all over the place, it’s really annoying. But the strange part is that other inputs (TV included) work great. They don’t flicker. Only VGA does. I tried it with 2 different cables, but neither one stops the flickering.
I think that Acer damaged the VGA connector during the repair.(my TV had dead pixels, and fixed it by putting a new screen in) and somehow damaged the VGA connector (there was a screw between the screen and the frame too)
Is there any way to have this repaired too? I think it’s a little bit the same as the question above.
By the way: I don’t really want Acer to repair it, again, because my TV was gone for 2 months when they had to put the new screen in (!)
the VGA connector is a very cheap, standard part which you can get online or at radio shack. very carefully peel apart the damaged connector and take careful note of which wires attach to which pins, then chop it off and solder on the new one. shouldn’t take very long at all if you’re comfortable soldering small parts.
When you can, visit http://www.repairarticles.com where there are free pc repair articles
that have videos in the articles. Read the video repair related articles.
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