Title: Missing the plug-and-play pin
Product review: A little bit of VGA history: There used to be a missing pin in the array, to make it even harder to plug a cable in backwards; if it didn't have a pin missing there, the lack of a hole in the port would prevent the cable from being inserted.This is that kind of cable.Unfortunately, clever computer manufacturers got better ideas, and that one pin is now used to carry monitor geometry information. This is how Windows knows, without special configuration for an individual monitor, what range of sizes and resolutions your monitor can support. This pin is missing on this cable, however, so you'll have to fend for yourself.If you have a monitor of nonstandard resolution (for example, it's actually an HDTV with a VGA jack), Windows won't be able to give you the matching resolution.Good cable for standard monitors, unusable for monitors of nonstandard resolution.
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