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From: nadkarni@ashok.dec.com
Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc
Subject: Connecting VGA card to NEC Multisync monitor
Message-ID: <7467@shlump.nac.dec.com>
Date: 15 Jan 90 14:04:27 GMT
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Organization: Digital Equipment Corporation
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I had posted a request for info about how to connect a VGA card to the
original NEC Multisync monitor. Thanks for all the replies. Since I also
received several requests for the information, I am posting it.

I got an 15pin high density male (connect to VGA) - DB9 female (connect to
Multisync cable) adapter from Connect-It (817-461-9400) for $7.95 + S&H.
I preferred this to a cable, both because it was cheaper and because my orignal
NEC cable has a little box at the monitor end (God know what it contains)
which none of the cables I saw had. So I preferred to use an adapter instead.
Worked like a champ. You have to remember to set the switch on the back of the
NEC to MANUAL ON and the analog/digital switch to ANALOG. This is very
important ! Also, you may have to adjust the vertical hold setting.

John Dudeck also sent the following useful info for those who want to
'roll their own'.

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The following is for an adaptor that accepts your existing cable that has a 
male 9-pin connector, and connects to a 15-pin VGA card's female connector.

The connections are as follows:



Female DB9                   Male Hi-density DB15
     1 ------------------------ 1
     2 ------------------------ 2
     3 ------------------------ 3
     4 ------------------------ 13
     5 ------------------------ 14
     6 ------------------------ 10
                            --- 6
                           |
                            --- 11
The wire can be any ordinary hookup wire.  The parts all fit into a single 
connector shell of a type that receives a connector at each end.

I mail-ordered the parts from Digi-Key (1-800-344-4539).  
They are of the Tex-Techs brand.
Digi-Key part no.     Descr.
709F-ND               Female DB-9 connector shell for crimp pins
82S-ND                Crimp socket
815M-ND               Male hi-density DB-15 connector shell
85P-ND                Crimp pin
909P-ND               Type TT plastic shell (holds a connector on each end)
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Thanks to all who replied

/Ashok Nadkarni