VGA TO DVI

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 2:14 am

See the top DVI converter. I need a pinout that goes that doesnt have the 4 pins around the metal slide on the right. My DVI on my moniter doesnt have any place for those pins just a straight metal slide.

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:37 am

wtf?

Do you have an apple monitor or something?

picture of the monitor please.

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 5:58 am

It's a ACER AL2051W.

If I just bend the pins down would I be fine?

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 10:11 am

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dvi

The top connector is a DVI-A connector, basically analog VGA re-packaged in a DVI connector. This is the pinout used by the VGA adaptors that come with most video cards. If your monitor doesn't have the 4 pins around the flat one, then it can't take an analog signal on that input.

The bottom is a dual-link DVI-I (with analog and digital signals). It's probably required to run your LCD at its native resolution. If that's what you have on your monitor, get a new cable.

clessoulis · Post by **clessoulis** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 4:51 pm

So theres no way to take VGA to DVI digital is there?

funkyass · Post by **funkyass** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:31 pm

AntoineWG · Post by **AntoineWG** » Thu Dec 07, 2006 6:31 pm

Unless the monitor has the analog pins in the connector, no.