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I have just purchased a dvi to vga adaptor so that I can use my vga monitor (apple studio 21')
the graphics card has two ports on the back - one vga and another strange one which i believ is dvi
but the dvi adaptor I got doesn't fit
all of the pins look correct apart from four small pins surrounding the flat pin
does this mean anything to anyone? - are there different versions of DVI? ( the card is a AGP ATI Rage128 pro 16mb)
and I'm using a powermac g4 (AGP)
rich
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Sounds like the 'DVI' port is an ADC port
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Originally Posted by harrisjamieh
Sounds like the 'DVI' port is an ADC port
I think it might be
I'm considering upgrading the video card
I want to have two vga connection Apple Studio Displays (21') connected as dual displays
what graphics card would you recommend? (of a decent memory - 32mb or 64mb)
rich
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Originally Posted by harrisjamieh
Sounds like the 'DVI' port is an ADC port
this is a picture of the connector - is it DVI?
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Oh I see, that is a DVI-D port, whereas it sounds like the adaptor you got is DVI-I:
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That is a DVI-D connector. It won't do what you want because it omits the analog signal pins to drive a VGA adapter.
You need a new or 2nd video card anyway. The Rage 128 Pros were not dual-monitor cards. They had dual outputs, but that was for a choice of displays. If you plug into both at the same time, you only get the digital output - the VGA will go blank.
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