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July 3, 2006, 11:37 am

I need to make a short VGA extension cable for a PC, mainly due to the
custom case having a bar near where the video card plug is.
I found the pinout here http://www.bbdsoft.com/video.html
I take it I only need 8 cables to connect between the male and female ends
to get the monitor working? Also do the ground pins (5, 6, 7, 8 & 10) just
get connected together?
Thanks
Grenge

Re: VGA extension cable
On Mon, 3 Jul 2006 21:37:10 +1000, "Grenge"

Pins 6,7,8 are the RGB ground returns. They shouldn't be lumped
together. A good quality extension cable will have 75 ohm coax for
each of the RGB signals. If you use ordinary wire, as is the case with
a cheap cable that I have, you may see ghosting at high resolutions. I
have made my own quality extension cables, for use with a KVM box, by
re-terminating VGA leads from scrapped monitors.
- Franc Zabkar
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