I have an old IBM Trinitron CRT, so one of the nicer flat tube ones that went all the way up to 1600x1200 resolution at 75hz. I only used it occasionally recently for old legacy system that have no digital output on GPU when I can't use my IPS. So I drug it out yesterday to do some testing on an old machine and I plugged it in but no signal. Of course I assumed it was the PC I was testing first. Unplugged the vga cable and the no signal message appear. Plugged it into my primary system with dvi-vga adapter but no picture there either. Only get the OSD stuff when there is no connection. So I am guessing a problem with the cable first, but sadly it is soldered directly to the board at the end of the picture tube. Now, I am not that scared of trying to desolder the old cable and replace it with a new ribbon cable ending in a dsub connector, but I don't want to take the risk if it could be something more serious as soldering on the end of the picture tube does make me a little bit nervous. Any opinions? Otherwise I guess I will be out looking for some small cheap 12-14" lcd display with vga dsub.
Does the adapter you used have the pins used to carry analogue VGA signal like this one? It's the 4 pins on the far left.
I'm not at home right now, but it was one that came with GPU. Also I forgot to mention I also tried it on another old system with vga dsub and it didn't work on there either. So it does the same thing on 3 system pretty sure it is the monitor. Mostly just trying to figure out if it is something other than a bad cable before I go and try to replace it.
