so here is the deal
i acquired an LCD monitor for free, there was a faulty 15 pin VGA connector at the end. So i called the respective company to ask for a replacement part, which they had trouble finding one, but eventually did. when the cable arrived it didn’t work either. I’m sending it back. now i know for a fact that the cable is the issue not the monitor. the old cable would show an image albeit garbled and unuseable but it wasn’t hard to see a resemblance to my desktop, if you shook it the picture would work for a short period of time then cut out again.

the reason i cant buy another cable is because one end goes inside of the monitor’s chassis and has some interesting kind of connector that i cant seem to find anywhere else not even on

http://pinouts.ru/connector/15_pin_highdensity_D-SUB_female_connector.shtml

so the only option is to put a new end on the cable, but the colors of the wires don’t seem to match any diagrams I’ve found.

i figure it would be better to post here because most people on these forums are better with wiring then standard computer geek guys.

any help would be appreciated.

and if there is any other info you need feel free to ask.

the monitor is a viewsonic ve175

part that i had shipped was cb-00001034 (faulty)

thank you