VGA connector on a Dell e770s 17 inch monitor has been cut. Need to know where the wires go on a 15 pin db connector?? Can anyone help...Thanks gvp

HDMI is digital
VGA (the 15 pin connector) is analog.
If your connector has the digital to analog interface it should work, but likely it does not have that chip and thus will not work.

Your description of the problem tells me it may never work as you have it connected. Possibly it might be that the monitor is required to be powered on before the laptop is booted, but that only works in some cases.

I have also seen some work if a 2-step connector is used.
VGA to DVI connector, followed by DVI to HDMI connector.
DVI was the step toward digital that came before the HDMI standard was implemented and was only partially digital. DVI and VGA do not carry control signals nor audio. HDMI carries both those as well as the video.

YMMV but I think it would be cheaper and more efficient to actually purchase a monitor with a digital input (HDMI or DVI).
Without the digital/analog converter interface a digital output device (your laptop with HDMI out) can never operate an analog device (your Dell monitor with VGA input).

Here are the pinouts

Why not just spend $30 to $50 and purchase a "previously-owned" 15-inch or 17-inch LCD monitor?

The monitor comes with DVI and VGA (DB15HD 3-ROW HIGH DENSITY) connectors. If your PC only have VGA (DB-15HD) output for the monitor, then you need to use VGA cable (DB-15HD Male to Male) for connection. Hope I explained clearly.

pin no 1 - Red colour signal (Red colour wire)
pin no 2 - Green colour signal (Green colour wire)
pin no 3 - Blue colour signal (Blue colour wire)
4&5 Not connected
pin no 6&7&8 are (Grounds)RGB Returns
9&10 NC
pin 13 Hohizontal sync signal
pin no 14 vertical sync signal
Not nessasry other pins

hai dear,
i checked your problem and found that you open the cover of monitor and you find the two jack of data cable in main pcb and neck card( 2 connector of data cable).plz you cut the connector of data cable and you will find 8 wires in connector.related red(invild extra ground),green(invild extra ground),blue(invild extra ground),black gnd,white,orange,gold(extra gnd) and now you cut the red wire, you will find two wires.so you refix the main red wire pin no-1 of connector and red gnd pin no-6,green main wire pin no-2 and green gnd pin no-7,main blue wire pin no-3 and blue gnd pin no-8.check for the horizental sync and vertical sync wire you should go in main pcb which invild the other connector. there is present in print, h- sync(two wire of h- sync main wire in pin no-13 and other pin no-5) and ver.-sync wire in pin no-14.first you will check the whose h-sync and vert-sync in color and now finally other wires will fix any pin of connector.

Put the connector infront of you and take biger size to top and smaller to down then count the pins like this-1=red,2= green,3 =blue(count the pins right hand side to left hand side),4=ground,5= blank,in lower row 6=red ground,7= green ground,8=blue ground,9,10,11=blank,12,15= in command section,13=horizantal synk,14= vertical synk.Hope this solution works otherwise i am always for help you.

in vga connector their are 15 pins .u have to solve this problem u have a digital meter to cheack contunity of the pins. if there is old wire is connected on crt board .first u cheack 0 omhs continutey to 1 pin to 15th pin. then u sold ur new cable

Most video cards use a 15 pin VGA connector.

There is also a 9 pin VGA connector, but they are a lot less common - I'm guessing this is what you have.

Is the video cable hard-wired into your monitor or is it connected via a plug? If it's a plug, is that a 15 or 9 pin? If it's a 15 pin, then all you need to do is buy a new 15-15pin VGA cable.

If it's hard-wired, you'll need to buy some sort of adapter. These are available and don't cost much either, but you might need to try a more specialist computer store to find one.

Hope this helps!

Matt

i want to know that what is the color combination of vaga cable connector