How to connect your PC to a projector. 1. Ensure both your laptop and your projector are powered off before connecting the two via the VGA cable, HDMI cable, and/or additional adapters.

Reader Mike ordered a new Dell system that came with a 21.5-inch LCD monitor. Although the monitor includes VGA, DVI, and HDMI inputs, it included only a VGA cable–even though the setup ...

VGA was developed in 1987 by IBM. VGA cables have fifteen pins, arranged in rows of five. Three pins of the VGA connection carry red, green and blue color data, respectively.

As it turns out, there’s quite a conversation going on while the monitor and the computer decide how to get along, and sniffing out VGA communications can reveal some pretty fascinating stuff ...

First introduced in 1986, VGA’s phase-out as a primary video interface began when PC displays shifted from analog CRT monitors to LCD flat panels in the late 1990s and early 2000s, said Chris ...