Left side: Unscrews from the standoff. Right side: Unscrews the standoff from the IO plate.
Every fucking time. Why do I keep buying monitors with a VGA 🤣😭
Every. Fucking. Time.
Video card manufacturers, why u no threadlocker?
I used to use locktite on my stand-offs.
Every time
You have to tighten the loose one to loosen the tight one. My fingers hurt just looking at it
you a director yet? that’s gandalf level wisdom
Amen to this…or just say fuck it and break out the screwdriver
Best part is when this sucker unscrews from the port and comes off with the cable:
The actual retro problem was when those tighty boys would start unscrewing the port instead of themselves
Pretty sure the little slit was so that you could use a flathead screwdriver. Had to do that a couple times
Then one side of the driver notch shears off
those slots were near useless.
edit to say: one trick was to use the blank expansion slot plates to gently break the vice like grip the screw had in the hex stand-off. the metal used on the cheap “digit remover” cases was sometimes soft enough to loosen the thumb screws via the driver slot without the thumb screw breaking.
still nearly useless though.
We referred to those blank expansion slot metal pieces as “keys.” They were useful lockpicks.
TIL!!
I mean, I could’ve been doing it wrong lol
Holy Diver!
This happens because the connector is at an angle. Since it’s at an angle, the screw presses against the side and jams itself in place. All you have to do is tilt the connector the other direction and the tight screw loosens right up. Easy peasy.
Am I the only one that never tightened them?
I tighten them and it saved my monitor! Robbers broke in to our house, stole a bunch of stuff. The computer monitor was still there, connected to the computer, dangling from the table.
How do I know they tried to steal it? Because they tried to cut through the cable with PAPER SCISSORS, because they didn’t know how to unscrew the cables.
I feel sorry for the dumb robbers. I hope they didn’t pawn it and are still enjoying playing Wii Fitness without the balance board, which they neglected to take with the console.
Oh wow, I didn’t see that coming. Screw-terminal cable connections are now the Manual Transmission of computer parts.
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also, both stripped somehow?
GPIB users and instrumentation automating folks know the problem is very modern.
I never screw them in.
You like living in the danger zone don’t you?
From what? The cable falling out?
I seriously don’t know what’s the problem with it. Please explain.
All I can say is that we are fortunate that the overlap between “VGA ports everywhere” and “battery operated impact drivers” is almost zero on the timeline. Imagine trying to unscrew a VGA plug by hand that was tightened down to ugga-dugga-foot-pounds of torque. Of course that assumes that didn’t shear the screws first.
“Tightened down to ugga-dugga-foot-pounds of torque” sent me into an absolute gigglefit.
You know you have given me a wonderful idea, I have a few friends that are in VGA heavy places
I dealt with this yesterday
I’m sorry to tell you that was 20 years ago.
Na, some of us still deal with these style connectors. Not so much for video, but it’s still used for rs-232 (control signal) and other data. They are great when you dont want the connector to ever fall out.
I’ve seen plenty of medical devices with rs232 ports. And I’m sure there’s a lot of legacy machinery out there which require them.
If you have a factory and your computer-controlled machinery was installed in 1995 but still works just fine, you’re probably not going to invest in newer equipment until it becomes a problem.
Screw loosie in tight as you can by hand, give the plug a moderate side to side jiggle, loosen tighty first then loosie.
Pff. I’ll be fine. I have a Hercules graphics card.
See? No twisty things.
I can still play games, right?
yeah some games
I remember my friend had a computer with a Hercules card back then and he could play like 3 games on it. Everything else required EGA, CGA and later VGA (although I think he had replaced the computer by then).
Excuse me, I have a 3070 feeding into one of these bad boys.
why??
Poverty homies rise up, also I won’t turn down a free tv. I upcycled a few for extra monitors.
That’s one advantage to living in the 21st century: computer “bone yards” and trash-picked parts are stupidly high quality “trash” compared to decades ago.
That doesn’t explain why you feed it with a 3070
All 3 HDMI ports are broken. That’s why it was gotten rid of, so I chain adapters with cables I have. Works like a gem. All of my monitors are upcycled. There is so much e-waste because people don’t use adapters.
hearing this makes me want to visit my local e-waste facility
Asking friends and family for old tech is a gold mine too, especially if you can pop old hard drives in a case for them. Most people wont touch that stuff.
wow that’s one hell of a dumpster find! even with those ports dead, a 3070 is worth like what, half a kidney?
nice!
Haha, minor misunderstanding, though I did get a deal on the card, I mean the TV was the one with the broken parts.
