< rant
So who decided that VGA cables should be the same gender connector at both ends?
I just spent an hour trying to fix a server that would apparently boot but wouldn't display
any post messages - I needed to change some bios settings.
The monitor gives me a helpful error message - "unable to display this resolution".
Wondering how it can't show simple VGA res, I reset the bios, when that doesn't work I remove the BIOS battery.
The system is in a rack with a keyboard and monitor mounted 6ft away - with the cable running through the normal waist thick rats nest of wiring of wiring.
The monitor worked with another system, so it and the VGA cable are good, I brought in another monitor and tried that - still nothing.
Eventually I ripped the rack apart to discover that the other end of the VGA connector I was trying to plug into the server was actually plugged into another server box !
And the second monitor I was testing was plugged into the first monitor.
An error message like - "I'm actualy plugged into another monitor stupid" - would be useful.
So would having a connector with a male end and a female end.
< end rant - thank you
