NEC MultiSync FP2141SB problem

Hello, I am new here and have a question;

I just bought a used FP2141SB MultiSync monitor by NEC, but I have yet to be able to use it. It will pretend to come on for about 5 seconds the light will stay green, then it goes to flashing yellow/orange.

I have tried hooking it up to 4 different PCs and it will not display any picture on any of them. I have a sole 14-pin VGA monitor cable (part number ctg #02635), which is brand new, just bought because all of my monitors I had previously either were old CRTs that had the monitor cable built in or new lcds which used DVI.

In any case, the monitor shows up in computer properties and I can even set the resolution, color depth, placement, etc... but the monitor itself refuses to show a picture, the light just continually (and annoyingly) flashes orange. I have tried several different power cables and outlets, but it simply refuses to show a picture. I dled and read the manual from NEC's website, browsed the internet, and finally decided to ask on a forum.





I am really wanting to get it to work, I've troubleshot as much as I can; my only real (prospectively hopeful) hunch is that this monitor requires a 15-pin VGA cable, as opposed to the cheap 14-pin I have. The only other option I can think of is that I bought it and it was DOA.

Thanks for any and all input ahead of time, and sorry if similar questions have been posed, I searched best I could.

Edit I have the refresh rate at the lowest setting, 60, though I tried other settings to no avail.

Off topic; I've followed some events posted on Toms Hardware in the past, and respect the site enough to have searched for similar keyworded problems; couldn't find anything I thought pertained to this matter. But anyway, wasn't someone here responsible for that video on youtube where someone overclocked a celeron processor to like 10 ghz using liquid nitrogen? I was pretty amazed, especially since I have braved the early celeron processors at 400 mghz.