John, I have a 15" lampshade with a dead screen too. The adapter you need is the mini-VGA, the same one that came with the white iBook. Since the MacBook and the MacBookPro do not use that same adapter, you should be able to pick one up cheap. If you can't find one, let me know. Cheers, John
On Dec 18, 2008, at 1:29 AM, schrödinger's cat wrote: > > hi all, > > i'm new to imacs, and i have a 17" G4 (lampshade?) imac with a dead > screen. it seems to still boot up, but the screen is black. i need > to > connect it to an external monitor to see what's going on, but the only > video port on the base is of a type i've never encountered before. > did > these things originally come with an adapter to connect to a VGA > monitor > or a DVI monitor? where do i get one and what's it called? anyone > have > one that they don't need/want? thanks in advance to all who reply. > > john > > > --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to Low End Mac's iMac List, a group for those using G3, G4, G5, and Intel Core iMacs as well as Apple eMacs. The list FAQ is at http://lowendmac.com/imac/list.shtml and our netiquette guide is at http://www.lowendmac.com/lists/netiquette.shtml To post to this group, send email to imaclist@googlegroups.com To unsubscribe from this group, send email to imaclist-unsubscr...@googlegroups.com For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/imaclist?hl=en Low End Mac RSS feed at feed://lowendmac.com/feed.xml -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
