- Jan 22, 2009
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OK, so today I picked up a 17 inch flat screen DELL, which has a permanently attached VGA cable.
I don't have the money to get an adapter right now, money is too tight to even give up 10-15 bucks for an adapter.
SO I was wondering, would it be possible to chop off the VGA plug, and wire up a DVI-I connector to the VGA cable. I figure if the DVI-I to VGA adapters just adapt the pins from the DVI-I Port, and sends the VGA and synch signals to the vga side.
So would I be able to wire up the vga cable to the DVI cable by connecting the wires that enable vga output? Essentially its a DIY DVI-I to VGA connector.
P.S : I know well enough what a DVI-I connector looks like, as it has the four extra pins for VGA/Analog output.
I don't have the money to get an adapter right now, money is too tight to even give up 10-15 bucks for an adapter.
SO I was wondering, would it be possible to chop off the VGA plug, and wire up a DVI-I connector to the VGA cable. I figure if the DVI-I to VGA adapters just adapt the pins from the DVI-I Port, and sends the VGA and synch signals to the vga side.
So would I be able to wire up the vga cable to the DVI cable by connecting the wires that enable vga output? Essentially its a DIY DVI-I to VGA connector.
P.S : I know well enough what a DVI-I connector looks like, as it has the four extra pins for VGA/Analog output.
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