1084s Monitor as a preview video monitor on PC. Possible?

[desiv]

"No need extra converter, VGA to SCART in RGB will work fine BUT you'll have to use AdvanceMame under DOS, or, more easy for setup : buy an Ultimarc's ArcadeVGA and you'll be able to use windows. I strongly suggest you that option if you never worked under dos and AdvanceMame config"

I mentioned AdvanceMAME above.. ;-)
I didn't mention ArcadeVGA as you have a laptop.  It's a card for PCs..

And if your chipset is supported by soft-15khz or powerstrip, you can use those.

desiv

[CodeHunter]

Yes, you did, thank you. The reason I was using the laptop was the fact that it had a video card that supported S-Video out, but when I installed the soft 15Khz, the utility did not detect its GPU (not supported). On my Desktop PC, which has a nVIDIA 6200 (AGP), it detected the GPU and installed the soft 15Khz. The only thing remains is hacking my VGA to DB9 cable and to test it out!

[CodeHunter]

Thanks for your response. I am having someone hack a VGA to RGB (15 to 9) cable for me, and I have asked his to use this schematic:

http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=127.0

(The first message in that thread, by user named "DarthNuno")

The thing is, I am not entirely sure if that is accurate or not.

For example this page, has a different pin schematic:
http://www.gamesx.com/hwb/co_C1084dd.html

And user named "funkycochise", in this forum, has used a yet another one:
http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=127.15

On male connector witch to be plugged on the female of the monitor :

1. Gnd
2. -
3. Red
4. Green
5. Blue
6. -
7. Sync
8. -
9. -

Would you kindly verify WHICH ONE is the correct pin layout/shcematic please? I don't want to have this guy make this cable (he is charging a bit high) to realize that is not the correct one! Any help would be greatly appreciated!

[CodeHunter]

OK, my first attempt is not successful I guess. This is what I did:

1) I went out I bought a D9M-15HF "Gender Changer" adapter, and a male Db9 Serial cable. (already had a male-male VGA).

2) Installed 15Khz soft utility on my PC desktop (nVIDIA 6200 AGP, which has 1VGA, 1DVI and 1S-Video out)

3) lowered my resolution to 640x480.

4) Restarted Windows XP

5) Connected my 1084S-D1, via the cable contraption that I mentioned in step 1.

6) 1084S-D1 only displays garbled red video signal. I even changed my VGA cable for a different one, pressed on buttons in the back of 1084S-D1, nothing changed however.

All screenshots are here:

http://www.flickr.com/photos/48901682@N02/7162721710/in/photostream/lightbox/
 
I am asking someone to make a cable for me, according to the following instructions:

http://www.dragonslairfans.com/smfor/index.php?topic=127.0

So hopefully I have better success with this one.

I will keep you posted.