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Laptop HDMI out connect to DELL monitor U2412M Displayport (DP).

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October 31, 2013 9:57:41 AM

My Dell Laptop has an HDMI 'out' connector. My newly bought DELL monitor U2412M has a Displayport (DP) 'in' connection. How to connect the HDMI signal to my new monitor DP port. I purchased a adapter called the DP to HDMI. But that is not working. Is there a adapter to go from HDMI to DP?

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October 31, 2013 10:08:54 AM

Try a hdmi-to-dvi-adapter or cable. The adapter you bought, might be an active adapter, that only works the other way round: dp-to-hdmi.
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October 31, 2013 10:15:26 AM

noidea_77 said:
Try a hdmi-to-dvi-adapter or cable. The adapter you bought, might be an active adapter, that only works the other way round: dp-to-hdmi.


Thanks. The adapter I have is a passive one. But I think it will work only the other way. That is, if Laptop has a DP out and Monitor has only a HDMI 'in' connection. Your DVI cable solution might work. But will it have the same display quality, I wonder.
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November 1, 2013 5:49:58 AM

ram1947 said:
noidea_77 said:
Try a hdmi-to-dvi-adapter or cable. The adapter you bought, might be an active adapter, that only works the other way round: dp-to-hdmi.


Thanks. The adapter I have is a passive one. But I think it will work only the other way. That is, if Laptop has a DP out and Monitor has only a HDMI 'in' connection. Your DVI cable solution might work. But will it have the same display quality, I wonder.

Yes! It's a digital- in / digital-out and has only different plugs at the end. There is no real conversion of any signals.
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November 7, 2013 4:10:30 AM

noidea_77 said:
ram1947 said:
noidea_77 said:
Try a hdmi-to-dvi-adapter or cable. The adapter you bought, might be an active adapter, that only works the other way round: dp-to-hdmi.


Thanks. The adapter I have is a passive one. But I think it will work only the other way. That is, if Laptop has a DP out and Monitor has only a HDMI 'in' connection. Your DVI cable solution might work. But will it have the same display quality, I wonder.

Yes! It's a digital- in / digital-out and has only different plugs at the end. There is no real conversion of any signals.


I have the HDMI to DVI cable now. But has a new problem for which I have started a new thread, But probably you can answer it faster. Query below.
I have my laptop connected to my new Dell 1920x1200 monitor, via HDMI to DVI cable. My Laptop display is 1366x768. The Dell monitor is set to it's full resolution 1920x1200. The two displays set to "Extend these display" setting.
1. The problem is the display on the Dell monitor is letter boxed with 3 inch black border. I am unable to get rid of it, except by changing the Dell monitor display resolution to 1280x800. This of course negates the purpose of getting a high resolution monitor. How to get the display to full screen on my Dell monitor with the resolution set at 1920x1200?
2. Strangely I found out that Instead of my HDMI out of Laptop, if I use the VGA out ( Blue connector) and connect to VGA in, I am getting the full screen display on my Dell monitor set to 1920x1200. So the problem is with HDMI signal only I think.

I am aware that HDMI gives better quality compared to the ancient VGA cable. But I am unable to go full screen on HDMI in connection
Can some one help? I am running Windows 7 on my Laptop which is also a Dell make.

Can noidea reply?
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November 7, 2013 4:25:03 AM

ram1947 said:
noidea_77 said:
ram1947 said:
noidea_77 said:
Try a hdmi-to-dvi-adapter or cable. The adapter you bought, might be an active adapter, that only works the other way round: dp-to-hdmi.


Thanks. The adapter I have is a passive one. But I think it will work only the other way. That is, if Laptop has a DP out and Monitor has only a HDMI 'in' connection. Your DVI cable solution might work. But will it have the same display quality, I wonder.

Yes! It's a digital- in / digital-out and has only different plugs at the end. There is no real conversion of any signals.


I have the HDMI to DVI cable now. But has a new problem for which I have started a new thread, But probably you can answer it faster. Query below.
I have my laptop connected to my new Dell 1920x1200 monitor, via HDMI to DVI cable. My Laptop display is 1366x768. The Dell monitor is set to it's full resolution 1920x1200. The two displays set to "Extend these display" setting.
1. The problem is the display on the Dell monitor is letter boxed with 3 inch black border. I am unable to get rid of it, except by changing the Dell monitor display resolution to 1280x800. This of course negates the purpose of getting a high resolution monitor. How to get the display to full screen on my Dell monitor with the resolution set at 1920x1200?
2. Strangely I found out that Instead of my HDMI out of Laptop, if I use the VGA out ( Blue connector) and connect to VGA in, I am getting the full screen display on my Dell monitor set to 1920x1200. So the problem is with HDMI signal only I think.

I am aware that HDMI gives better quality compared to the ancient VGA cable. But I am unable to go full screen on HDMI in connection
Can some one help? I am running Windows 7 on my Laptop which is also a Dell make.

Can noidea reply?

Search for the over-/underscan parameter in your graphics driver and change it / set it to zero /...
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November 7, 2013 4:35:43 AM

noidea_77 said:
ram1947 said:
noidea_77 said:
ram1947 said:
noidea_77 said:
Try a hdmi-to-dvi-adapter or cable. The adapter you bought, might be an active adapter, that only works the other way round: dp-to-hdmi.


Thanks. The adapter I have is a passive one. But I think it will work only the other way. That is, if Laptop has a DP out and Monitor has only a HDMI 'in' connection. Your DVI cable solution might work. But will it have the same display quality, I wonder.

Yes! It's a digital- in / digital-out and has only different plugs at the end. There is no real conversion of any signals.


I have the HDMI to DVI cable now. But has a new problem for which I have started a new thread, But probably you can answer it faster. Query below.
I have my laptop connected to my new Dell 1920x1200 monitor, via HDMI to DVI cable. My Laptop display is 1366x768. The Dell monitor is set to it's full resolution 1920x1200. The two displays set to "Extend these display" setting.
1. The problem is the display on the Dell monitor is letter boxed with 3 inch black border. I am unable to get rid of it, except by changing the Dell monitor display resolution to 1280x800. This of course negates the purpose of getting a high resolution monitor. How to get the display to full screen on my Dell monitor with the resolution set at 1920x1200?
2. Strangely I found out that Instead of my HDMI out of Laptop, if I use the VGA out ( Blue connector) and connect to VGA in, I am getting the full screen display on my Dell monitor set to 1920x1200. So the problem is with HDMI signal only I think.

I am aware that HDMI gives better quality compared to the ancient VGA cable. But I am unable to go full screen on HDMI in connection
Can some one help? I am running Windows 7 on my Laptop which is also a Dell make.

Can noidea reply?

Search for the over-/underscan parameter in your graphics driver and change it / set it to zero /...


Now the obvious question. How do I do that. I have NVIDIA GEForce GT525M as my adapter in my Laptop. I cannot see any place to change the driver parameter in the Properties display screen for it's driver.
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November 7, 2013 9:24:08 AM

ram1947 said:
noidea_77 said:
ram1947 said:
noidea_77 said:
ram1947 said:
noidea_77 said:
Try a hdmi-to-dvi-adapter or cable. The adapter you bought, might be an active adapter, that only works the other way round: dp-to-hdmi.


Thanks. The adapter I have is a passive one. But I think it will work only the other way. That is, if Laptop has a DP out and Monitor has only a HDMI 'in' connection. Your DVI cable solution might work. But will it have the same display quality, I wonder.

Yes! It's a digital- in / digital-out and has only different plugs at the end. There is no real conversion of any signals.


I have the HDMI to DVI cable now. But has a new problem for which I have started a new thread, But probably you can answer it faster. Query below.
I have my laptop connected to my new Dell 1920x1200 monitor, via HDMI to DVI cable. My Laptop display is 1366x768. The Dell monitor is set to it's full resolution 1920x1200. The two displays set to "Extend these display" setting.
1. The problem is the display on the Dell monitor is letter boxed with 3 inch black border. I am unable to get rid of it, except by changing the Dell monitor display resolution to 1280x800. This of course negates the purpose of getting a high resolution monitor. How to get the display to full screen on my Dell monitor with the resolution set at 1920x1200?
2. Strangely I found out that Instead of my HDMI out of Laptop, if I use the VGA out ( Blue connector) and connect to VGA in, I am getting the full screen display on my Dell monitor set to 1920x1200. So the problem is with HDMI signal only I think.

I am aware that HDMI gives better quality compared to the ancient VGA cable. But I am unable to go full screen on HDMI in connection
Can some one help? I am running Windows 7 on my Laptop which is also a Dell make.

Can noidea reply?

Search for the over-/underscan parameter in your graphics driver and change it / set it to zero /...


Now the obvious question. How do I do that. I have NVIDIA GEForce GT525M as my adapter in my Laptop. I cannot see any place to change the driver parameter in the Properties display screen for it's driver.

Well, I don't have NVIDIA graphics, but there should be a program called nvidia control panel. Search for "nvidia control panel overscan" to get the details.
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