to solder in a new VGA wire onto a monitor. the color is blue, so I assumed there would be kinks in the cable, I was correct. though, this was before the conviniance of VGA plug-ins on monitors, it's an old 19" thing, hasn't been plugged in for a few days, is it safe to open it up? I already shorted out the plugs on the bottom, so that should take care of some of the problem.
schematic? it's just soldering matching color wires, and trying to keep a high level of magnetic shielding
right now I'm just trying to replace a cable's head.... so the part that goes into the graphics card, as ther eis a MAJOR kink there, and I'm pretty sure it is the one. so I don't need to worry about high voltages either.
there is a white wire coming from my monitor, but no white wire in the cable that I bought. I must think about this for a wile, should I use the purple, blue, teal, grey, or red?
If you have an ohmmeter, you should be able to figure out which pin of the original cable the white wire is connected to.
(If you don't have a voltmeter/ohmmeter, you might want to consider getting one... they are generally handy things to have, if you intend to make a habit of tinkering with things at the hardware level.)
