Which Dip Switch setting do I need for VGA LCD?

[olePigeon]

http://media.extron.com/download/files/userman/13w3vgaadapter-man-b.pdf

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Looks like you needto build an additional adapter, dunno which settings you'll need. Played with what I could find at work last night,but haven't checked tha Apple pinout against my Mac Library.

No time for formatting, off to work.

Pin__SGI_______SGI__SUN SPARC__SUN (older)__VGA__Apple

A1___Red_______Red__Red________Red_______________Blue

A2___Green_____Green__Green__Green________Green

A3___Blue_____Blue__Blue__Blue_________Red

01___Mon 3_____Data clk. (SCL)___Serial Read___N/C___Red H.___Sync Ground

02___Mon 0_____Bidirect. data (SDA) V. sync N/C Green V. Sync Ground

03___C. sync___Gnd_______Sense 0 Sense 2 Blue Sense 3

04___H. sync___H. sync___Gnd___Gnd___N/C or ID bit 2 Sense Ground

05___V. sync___V. sync_________C. sync___C. sync___Gnd___C. Sync

06___Mon 1_____DDC 5v+ input___H. sync.___N/C (Red)___Gnd___H. Sync Ground

07___Mon 2_____DDC Gnd_________Serial write___N/C (Grn)___Gnd___V. Sync Ground

08___Dig. Gnd___Gnd___Sense 1___Sense 1 (Blu) Gnd___Sense 2

09___Dig. Gnd___Gnd___Sense 2___Sense 0___NO PIN (key)___Sense 1

10___Dig. Gnd_Gnd___Gnd___Gnd___(Sync) Gnd___C. Sync Ground

11__________________________N/C or ID Bit 0

12____________________________DDC Data (SDA) or ID Bit 1

13__________________H. sync or C. sync

14_________________________________V. sync

15______________________DDC Clock (SCL) or ID Bit 3

paste this into a spreadsheet, I'll finish the .TXT formatted later for posterity.

Pin SGI 13W3 SGI 13W3 (DDC) SUN 13W3 (SPARC) SUN 13W3 (older) VGA Apple

A1 Red Red Red Red Blue

A2 Green Green Green Green Green

A3 Blue Blue Blue Blue Red

1 10/03/14 Data clk. (SCL) Serial Read N/C Red H. Sync Ground

2 Mon 0 Bidirect. data (SDA) V. sync N/C Green V. Sync Ground

3 C. sync Gnd Sense 0 Sense 2 Blue Sense 3

4 H. sync H. sync Gnd Gnd N/C or ID bit 2 Sense Ground

5 V. sync V. sync C. sync C. sync Gnd C. Sync

6 Mon 0 DDC 5v+ input H. sync. N/C (Red) Gnd H. Sync Ground

7 10/01/14 DDC Gnd Serial write N/C (Grn) Gnd V. Sync Ground

8 Dig. Gnd Gnd Sense 1 Sense 1 (Blu) Gnd Sense 2

9 Dig. Gnd Gnd Sense 2 Sense 0 NO PIN (key) Sense 1

10 Dig. Gnd Gnd Gnd Gnd (Sync) Gnd C. Sync Ground

11 N/C or ID Bit 0

12 DDC Data (SDA) or ID Bit 1

13 H. sync or C. sync

14 V. sync

15 DDC Clock (SCL) or ID Bit 3

Holy CRAP! coldn't get the tab delimitation to work with earlier iterations of the spreadsheet!

edit: ditto, looked good in the .TXT window though. :-/

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[Gorgonops]

I'm confused; this is a 13w3 adapter with switches, so... what is the host machine you're trying to hook a monitor to up with this?

 

[olePigeon]

Mac IIci with a SuperMac Thunder II GX.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

I'm confused; this is a 13w3 adapter with switches  .  .  .

Makes absolute sense, the switches allow the user to set it up to run any of (most of?) the somewhat compatible flavors of 13W3 on machines listed on the left of the VGA colum in the spreadsheet I whipped up from info online at work last night.

The column to the right of VGA would be the same company that couldn't even manage to use the industry standard, specified connector for their half-@$$ed mis-implementation of the SCSI Spec.

Apparently, they opened up another can of FUBAR on their 13W3 mis-implementation. I gotta check GTttMFH, but it looks like they got Red & Blue on the wrong lines, one out of three ain't a bad batting average  .  .  .

.  .  .  or is it?  ;D

Short version, a Mac specific 13W3 to VGA would be on my shopping list or I'd make a cable or adapter for the existing adapter. :-/

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[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Pin__SGI_______SGI (DDC)________SUN SPARC_____SUN (older)_____VGA_______________Apple

A1___Red_________Red_______________Red____________Red_____________________________Blue

A2___Green_______Green______________Green_________Green____________________________Green

A3___Blue________Blue_______________Blue___________Blue_____________________________Red

01___Mon 3_______Data clk. (SCL)______Serial Read_____N/C_________Red_________________H. Sync Ground

02___Mon 0_______Bidirect.data(SDA)___V. sync________N/C_________Green________________V. Sync Ground

03___C.Sync______Gnd_______________Sense0________Sense2______Blue_________________Sense 3

04___H.sync______H.sync_____________Gnd___________Gnd_________N/C or ID bit 2_________Sense Ground

05___V. sync______V.sync_____________C. sync________C.sync______Gnd__________________C. Sync

06___Mon 1_______DDC 5v+ input_______H. sync._______N/C_________(Red) Gnd_____________H. Sync Ground

07___Mon 2_______DDC Gnd___________Serial write_____N/C_________(Grn) Gnd_____________V. Sync Ground

08___Dig. Gnd_____Gnd_______________Sense1________Sense 1______(Blu) Gnd_____________Sense 2

09___Dig. Gnd_____Gnd_______________Sense2________Sense 0______NO PIN (key)__________Sense 1

10___Dig. Gnd_____Gnd_______________Gnd___________Gnd_________(Sync) Gnd____________C. Sync Ground

11_____________________________________________________________N/C or ID Bit 0

12_____________________________________________________________DDC Data (SDA) or ID Bit 1

13_____________________________________________________________H. sync or C. sync

14_____________________________________________________________V. sync

15_____________________________________________________________DDC Clock (SCL) or ID Bit 3

That's it for now, gotta double-check the Apple 13W3 Pinout.

 

[olePigeon]

Well, I plugged the cable in anyway and I got a picture after the Supermac software cycled through on its own, I then hit the spacebar when the image came up.  So I guess the Supermac card has the different signal types already, and just cycles through them, so the dip switches don't really matter with this card.

Thanks jt.  Sorry for extra work.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

NoPro, I love doing this kinda crap!

Very nice, how do you like 1600x1200, is that the highest res you've run to date? ;D

 

[olePigeon]

So before I got that LCD I messaged you about, I messaged the seller specifically about it not having dead pixels or any other issues.  They assured me that it was in Grade A shape, which I took to mean that it's like-new.  So I pulled the trigger and got it, especially with the free shipping, which is hard to do with a heavy monitor for so cheap.

So I went ahead and got it, but when it arrived, it had 4 dead pixels and makes a loud buzzing noise when plugged in.  I would have to guess that the LCD's power supply is dying.

The seller refunded my money, but I'd 've rather had a working LCD.

 

[Trash80toHP_Mini]

Recap time, 1,919,996 pixels would work for me!

 

[olePigeon]

You can have it for cost of shipping, I won't use it.  I could ship it with the PDS/NuBUS cables when you're ready to pick those up.

 

[Paralel]

Also, you may be able to bring those 'dead' pixels back to life. It depends on what kind of "dead" they are.