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Alan McKinnon wrote: |
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> As someone who's done more electronics work than he ever should, any |
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> device that can suffer electrical damage simply by being plugged and |
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> unplugged from the thing it's supposed to be plugged into is a shoddy |
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> design and really should be in the bin. The only thing I ever found |
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> that was susceptible to this was ancient RS232 kit, and the cause was |
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> always inadequate shielding and isolation. In the last 10 years I only |
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> know of one product sold that has this problem and sadly that's the |
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> first run of the Raspberry Pi... You can safely plug and unplug VGA |
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> all day long and be hit by lightning more often than damage the |
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> monitor, repair techies have been doing it for years. VGA connectors |
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> are shrouded, you are virtually guaranteed an earth connection before |
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> any of the data pins make contact and you'll never have a situation |
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> where 25V is trying to shake hands with 5V (that was a major problem |
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> with RS232 stuff). Of course, there's no guarantee the picture will |
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> show on the screen if you hotplug VGA, but there's no inherent danger |
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> of damage either. |
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I have done that with monitors a few times, no problems but was |
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curious. I have had that problem with a PS/2 keyboard tho. That has |
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happened to me twice and I saw that with my own eyes. I have heard of |
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people who have had the same thing happen so I only swap my keyboard |
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when my rig is off. I don't want to build another rig. ;-) |
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New question about HDMI. I have a pretty nice video card that has a 15 |
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pin connector and HDMI. Do I have to do anything special to use the |
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HDMI or does it just send the same signal to both connectors? I have my |
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monitor hooked to the 15 pin connector but would like to hook my TV to |
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the HDMI connector. Same signal on both is fine with me. I would just |
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rather watch movies and such on my TV instead of my monitor. I googled |
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a while back and just couldn't figure out how this works. It seems to |
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me that it works different based on how it is set up or something. My |
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card is Nvidia and it is a GT220 with 1Gb of ram. It was donated so no |
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links or anything. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |
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