A1083 DVI Cable Repair Question
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Does the image from ebay not show what type of connector it is?
Opening it will be much easier than soldering 40+ wires, and the result would be a million times more durable. You should be able...
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They have in the past, not sure if that generation of monitor did or not. The connector looked the same but was not the same electrically. There are a lot of pins in a DVI connection and each one...
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This is why I hate apple. Ouuu it looks so sleek and pretty but bend a pin or break the cable end and guess what ur screwed. All other monitors use another connector to the monitor so you can replace...
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I am not a seasoned solderer, but my dad has done some before. I thought I would give it a try before going to a store because I am sure they will charge a lot to fix it.
I saw that I could...
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Easy to replace the cable, possibly hard to open up the monitor. Many monitor and TV cases snap together, so try to find instructions for unsnapping the Apple monitor's. If any plastic pieces...
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You should be able to do that fairly easily if the cable is a bunch of twisted pairs, as opposed to 3 separate coax cables. Try to keep the twisted pairs in line and put heatshrink on each...
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Here is one cord on ebay. It looks like a sort of IDE cable connector.....http://www.ebay.com/itm/Apple-Cinema-HD-Display-30-A1083-MONITOR-Wires-DVI-Power-Adapter-Cable/150797765960
A1083 DVI Cable Repair Question
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My brothers office got broken into a few months ago and someone stole the computer that this monitor was connected to. Rather than unplugging the monitor nicely, they just cut the DVI cable. Here...
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I read somewhere that Apple uses a different type of DVI cable, or maybe it was that there are two types of DVI cables, a single and double? I think the one on the monitor is a double.
