15 Pin Serial Cable? - Super User
Oct 23, 2009 · Stumbled across what appears to be a 15pin serial cable when cleaning out the equipment room today. I'm familiar with 25 pin and Any idea what these are commonly used for?
Will a VGA monitor work if connected to 9-pin serial port?
In summary, no, a serial port is not a video port and there is no way to use a monitor of any kind with it (even a 9-pin monitor, let alone 15-pin one). Since it does not have onboard video, you will need to …
cable - Why would you connect a 15-pin VGA connector to a 9-pin DB ...
The early VGA monitors often had both digital and analog connectors, analog being 15-pin, digital 9-pin. CGA and EGA, and some modes of VGA, worked on digital connection, but to get full 24-bit VGA …
display - I found an old CRT monitor with a RS-232 (not VGA) video ...
Mar 2, 2025 · The latest VGA uses a DE-15 connector as outlined below. The relationship between 9-pin and 15-pin VGA pinout is given below. Connecting monitor in the question to a DisplayPort could be …
serial port - 15 pin COM Header on motherboard - Super User
On a Lenovo M81 motherboard there is a 15 pin header labelled "COM2". I know that some serial interfaces can have 15 pins, but thought the most modern variation is 9 pin. I would have expected a …
connector - Is SATA 7 or 15 pins? - Super User
Is SATA 7 or 15 pins? The SATA standard defines data cable connector consisting of: 40 pins 34 pins 15 pins 7 pins I chose 15 pins. It was wrong. The correct answer was 7. A SATA data cable has 7 …
RS232 to VGA adapter - Super User
May 2, 2020 · if I would have this adapter-cable and would connect it to my NanoPI and plugin the right-plug in a VGA-monitor: What would I actually see? Smoke? I feel that cable is very unlikely to contain …
What is the 15-pin black port that old sound cards have?
Aug 7, 2020 · This is a game port. It was originally designed by IBM to support arcade-style analog joystick controllers, but was later extended by Creative Labs (the company behind Sound Blaster) to …
How to wire the LPT and COM port headers on a motherboard?
The cable+DB25 for the LPT port should work (assuming as @Brian pointed out that the marked edge of the ribbon cable is matched to pin 1 on the header). But you only have a 50/50 chance that the …
Is serial port a 'male' or 'female'? - Super User
Jan 19, 2016 · The big one is a female parallel connector. It used to be common to have both 25-pin serial ports (true RS-232 ports) and 25-pin parallel ports (smaller than the original Centronics parallel …