Monitor switchbox for my mame cab and PC.

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Posted by Agent Davis on 31, 2001 at 12:54 AM:

I went out and bought a plain, generic DB15 A/B switchbox for $9. I wanted to see if this could be used for hooking up two monitor. I share my main computer with my Mame machine so swapping cables becomes very annoying after a while. I hooked up a Male to Male (that's sick) cable from my video card to the IO port on the back of the switchbox. I then hooked each monitor to the A and B connectors and tried it out. The results are that it worked great. There are no changes in either monitor whatsoever. I absolutely cannot tell its hooked up to a switchbox. Not bad for $9. I've heard that signal is lost and these aren't worth it but not the case hee.

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Re: Monitor switchbox for my mame cab and PC. SpyHunter 1/31/2001 (2)
- Another place you can pick up switchboxes... Joshua 1/31/2001 (0)
- Unicomp. It's the "technology" bookstore on campus at Ohio State. It's as generic as you can get. Agent Davis 1/31/2001 (0)

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: I went out and bought a plain, generic DB15 A/B switchbox for $9. I wanted to see if this could be used for hooking up two monitor. I share my main computer with my Mame machine so swapping cables becomes very annoying after a while. I hooked up a Male to Male (that's sick) cable from my video card to the IO port on the back of the switchbox. I then hooked each monitor to the A and B connectors and tried it out. The results are that it worked great. There are no changes in either monitor whatsoever. I absolutely cannot tell its hooked up to a switchbox. Not bad for $9. I've heard that signal is lost and these aren't worth it but not the case hee.

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