My 8-bit woes (Can a monitor cable screw up your 8-bits?)

[leech]

So, I just received a 5pin DIN to 4 RCA cable (Red, Yellow, Black, White) from B&C to replace my old cable, that had broken a bit of the plastic on the black cable, so it had bare wires, and I was thinking it was dead, since I wasn't able to get a signal last time I fired up, but I had also replaced my A/V receiver in the meantime, so figured it could have been that as well.

 

Long story short... I've now tested a Dell LCD monitor that has Composite video in, my old stand by monitor (granted it smelled a little funny when I turned it on, because dust, etc and wasn't sure it worked at all. It was my original monitor I used with my 800XL.) and also my input through the A/V receiver, and to eliminate that as the problem, I used the direct Input on my TV.

 

So that's THREE different display devices.

 

I've tried this with my 800XL and 130XE, and just for giggles, my XEGS (which admittedly uses a single RCA cable, and I don't know if it ever worked), and all THREE of these systems acted the same way.

 

Horizontal flicker, and no usable screen.

 

Wtf? So now that's going through TWO cables that are the 8-bit monitor ones, and One straight RCA...

 

Do the horizontal hold just go bad in the 8-bits? I fired up my 800XL a few months back and it seemed fine then, in fact I fixed the no-color issue with the POTS that I thought it was fried for YEARS....

 

My only guess is that my XEGS was already having issues, I think I got it many years ago and never even plugged it in...

 

The other two I know worked not too long ago, but I was testing them with this new cable, and now I can't get the old one to work either.

 

Any ideas?

[leech]

Ah, may have answered my own question. Only commonality in all of this... the same PSU. Guessing mine is going bad after all these years? Or maybe it needs a warmup...