VGA port broken

[silvercoltac]

My laptop screen is cracked and the vga port broke. There is no other display port. The piece is too damaged to be soldered back. Also my laptop is a bit old so the port only has two rows of pins unlike 3 on my pc motherboard vga port. I have a few spare ports but dont know how to solder then since the ports have 3 rows of pins but the laptop only allows 2 rows.
Thanks
BTW sorry for the long post

 

[kanewolf]

Two rows of pins is a serial port not a VGA port.

 

[silvercoltac]

Two rows of pins is a serial port not a VGA port.

I'm not sure what a serial port is but the port I have is VGA. It connects to the monitor.

 

[InvalidError]

VGA ports have always had three rows of pins, regardless of whether it is a VGA Wonder from the 80s or one of the last generation GPUs to have built-in VGA port, passive DVI-I to VGA adapter or current active DVI-D/HDMI/DP-to-VGA adapter. If your port has only two rows, it is something else or a proprietary/non-standard job.

 

[TJ Hooker]

I don't see a question in your initial post.

Have you successfully used the two row VGA port you describe to output video in the past?

 

[silvercoltac]

VGA ports have always had three rows of pins, regardless of whether it is a VGA Wonder from the 80s or one of the last generation GPUs to have built-in VGA port, passive DVI-I to VGA adapter or current active DVI-D/HDMI/DP-to-VGA adapter. If your port has only two rows, it is something else or a proprietary/non-standard job.

One row has 5 pins the other 10
Can serial ports look like vga ports?

 

[silvercoltac]

I don't see a question in your initial post.

Have you successfully used the two row VGA port you describe to output video in the past?

Yes.

 

[silvercoltac]

I am asking about how I can continue to use my laptop or fix the broken port. I don't want to repair the screen...too expensive.

 

[InvalidError]

One row has 5 pins the other 10
Can serial ports look like vga ports?

A standard VGA port has 15 pins arranged as three rows of five pins each.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VGA_connector

What you are describing as two rows distributed in a 10+5 fashion isn't a standard VGA connector.

Serial ports have a similar shape but only have 9 pins. (There's also a 25 pins variant.)