hey everyone, I'm new here but i've been reading articles and threads here for a while. i got a problem with my monitor and was wondering if anyone could help me. i have a samsung SyncMaster 955DF and two of the pins from the connector is missing. when i turn the monitor on, everything has a red hue to it, so i think obviously somehting is wrong. What can i do to fix this. I was at an electronics store yesterday and saw replacement parts for all kinds of connector heads, but i'm not sure if i want to go ahead and try and fix it myself, i'm a noob when it comes to this stuff. What do you guys suggest i do? Thanks!
Doyo mean the VGA connector? If so, there are supposed to be pins 'missing'... Have you tried adjusting the colour balance on your monitor? An if it is a CRT, have you tried degaussing it?
Okay a few things here... Here's a pin out of a VGA connector: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~maggieoh/Tech/svgapin.gif As you can see the connector could function happily without pins 4, 9 and 11. On most connectors Pin 9 is missing (i have a samsung SM 957DF, and this is the case), but it could be that they have mised out 11 or 4 as well. For everything to have a red 'hue' at least one of the pins 2, 3, 7 or 8 would have to be missing, check if this is the case. If you do find that the conenctor is the problem, and you wish to replace it, you need a "high density 15 way D-type socket".
hey thanks for the help guys/. i have tried degaussing it already, and pins 4 and 11 are the ones missing, but then again, they don't have any holes there, as if there were never any pins to begin with. i wonder how i coul dhave this red tint though. i checked the manual for any solutions but none yet. thanks for the info tho!
my friend thought that it might have been magnetized, whatever that means. he said a vacuum can cause it, and i was using one next to my monitor. how much would it cost to repair my monitor?
If your monitor is magnatized I believe all that needs done is for the screen to be degaussed. If the monitor is really magnitized, and the built-in degauss isn't fixing it, you may need to buy a degaussing tool, I read something about it a while back, but I dont remember the specifics. I think they were about $10-$15. A quick google search should turn up something... I had a couple old monitors do the exact same thing too me from time to time. Most of the time a stout whack fixed the problem for me
just deguass it every 5 mins and the prob will go away (disclaimer: deguasssing reduces the life of your monitor). My new monitor had a dark patch on arrival, so i kept deguassing and it eventually went away.
I once magnetised a monitor really badly in the school library. Put an enomous magnet (about A5 paper size) next to it, and it went blue/green. Took over two hours of being left off to demagnetise, and even then needed some degaussing...
Deguassing your monitor will not reduce the life of your monitor. The positor in the degaussing circuitry will prevent you degaussing your monitor until the coil has properly cooled down. If degaussing your monitor really did reduce it's life, people would leave their monitors on continuously since your monitor is degaussed every time you turn it on... Back on topic, elvinkch, is the red hue continuous over the whole of the screen, or slightly localised? If there is no localisaion then try a new cable, different graphics card, or test your monitor on another computer. If it still displays red, then a trip to the repair shop may be in order.
It sounds like there could be a broken wire in the cable, which could be a possibility. Measure the resistance beween the the red video and the red gnd, is should be 50-75 ohms, do the same for the blue and green also. If it is infinite, on one of those ,you probably have a broken wire. Most likely, the red wire isn't the problem though.
