Amiga & the Gateway KX2153 21" LCD Monitor

[giZmo350]

I verified you have pin 15 on your adapter.

Thanks!

Maybe the choice of ground is not the best?

I was thinking about just using one of the solder points for the screw mounts. That's a ground I'm sure.

I thought the same thing but I verified that my soldered ground connection is the same as the screw mounts with a meter.

Yeah, this is getting weird... :hammer:

I guess I'll leave the mod in place for now as maybe someone else may chime in with some magical unicorn advice. :lol:

[mindprober]

Thanks!

I thought the same thing but I verified that my soldered ground connection is the same as the screw mounts with a meter.

Yeah, this is getting weird... :hammer:

I guess I'll leave the mod in place for now as maybe someone else may chime in with some magical unicorn advice. :lol:

Yeah, we need some more verified cases of this actually working, along with photos.  

[giZmo350]

You know what? I just thought of something... the board is double  sided, meaning there are traces on both sides. I only soldered the  bottom side. Lemme make a connection to the top ground too... BRB

[mindprober]

I was thinking too. The whole point of this is to eliminate pin 15 from being connected, right? Sending it to ground shorts the connection, per the instructions. I wonder how difficult it will be just to cut pin 15 instead.  

You know what? I just thought of something... the board is double  sided, meaning there are traces on both sides. I only soldered the  bottom side. Lemme make a connection to the top ground too... BRB

[giZmo350]

OK, that was a bust. So, I took the resistor off and checked for continuity from pin 15 to ANYWHERE on the board and it goes NOWHERE! :confused: Check your adapter for yourself! And Me! :angry: Plus, that diagram that AmiWest posted shows NO pin 15.

[Merc]

OK, that was a bust. So, I took the resistor off and checked for continuity from pin 15 to ANYWHERE on the board and it goes NOWHERE! :confused: Check your adapter for yourself! And Me! :angry: Plus, that diagram that AmiWest posted shows NO pin 15.

Sorry to hear it didnt work for you, I found my original post on comp.sys.amiga.hardware when I did the hack on my adaptor and I said it didn't happen in NTSC/PAL modes which yours clearly does if it happens on the insert disk screen.

Here's the old post in case it's helpful:

https://groups.google.com/forum/#!searchin/comp.sys.amiga.hardware/ah210@chebucto.ns.ca%7Csort:date/comp.sys.amiga.hardware/ZUR_4-gm810/DI5YUToFYAoJ

[mindprober]

Interesting. A post mentions pin 15 going to pin 18 which is video ground for BLUE according the diagram I have. I wonder why BLUE. If it were to go to a video ground, pin 20 makes more sense since it is not specific to a color.

I dunno. My excitement for this has fizzled. I won't bother getting out the soldering iron just yet.

[mindprober]

Here is the link to the instructions on Aminet:

http://aminet.net/package/docs/hard/MoniAdap

It too differs from the fixes already posted.