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Attaching a Compaq monitor via BNCs...

I have an old 17" Compaq monitor which has no model number on it that I can currently discern. At the back are five female BNC connectors: white, black, red, green, and blue. While this colour scheme is obvious, the cable I have for it consists of five male BNC connectors: one yellow and two pairs of red & black.

Could someone guide me to setting up which way around the connectors should go or point me in the right direction of a web site please? It's fairly ugrent as my kids want to play games on a monitor that can show more than 640x480! :)

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Pete Long

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Barthax

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IIRC white is horizontal & black is vertical, which would tie in with your knowledge. The problem I have is the cable itself, while having the five connectors, has two pairs of red & black plus a yellow. :(

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Barthax

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Well, I managed to get a set of cables correctly colour coded & the monitor appears to be dead! :(

Many thanks for the help anyway. :)

Pete Long

Bad luck :(

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Pete

Barthax

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For information, I've managed to configure someone else's monitor with the cable. :) Turns out the following:

Red & Black (1): Vertical (red) & Horizontal (black)
Yellow: Blue
Red & Black (2): Red (red) & Green (black)

There's still no distinguishing between the pairs of red & black cables though. :(

Barthax

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D'oh, sorry, my notes were wrong first time on the Horizontal/Vertical! Here's the correct ones:

Red & Black: White/Horizontal (red) & Black/Vertical (black).

black = black - the only match of the lot! :)