Work from home dual monitor set up

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angiezimmy

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I have 2 VGA monitors that I was hoping to use for my home office set up. For example, I would like to have email open on one monitor and be working on a spreadsheet on the second monitor. The docking station for my laptop has 1 VGA port and a DVI-D dual link port. If I get a DVI-D Dual Link 24+1 male to VGA female M/F Video Cable Adapter will this work?
 
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Cable no! Adapter if not active, wont do the job either.
If your DVI port don't have the 4 small pins
2000px-DVI_pinout.svg.png
Analog ones ( C1 - C4 ), you need to get an active converter to be able to transfer signal to VGA.
You will need something like this...
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newbjumper

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It will work, I used to have the same setup and I had no problems with it because it does not matter which ports you connect the monitors to, as long as they are connected to the same computer.
 
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misteriosly

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Cable no! Adapter if not active, wont do the job either.
If your DVI port don't have the 4 small pins
2000px-DVI_pinout.svg.png
Analog ones ( C1 - C4 ), you need to get an active converter to be able to transfer signal to VGA.
You will need something like this: http://www.networktechinc.com/dvi-vga.html
Also have in mind that most of em support up to 1920x1200 video resolution and you may have problems at resolutions that aren't 16:9, depends on convertor.

You can use also something like this: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16812400402
Using same one just HDMI => VGA
 
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