Onboard DVI?

[fiveiron]

Building a computer for a friend and just found out she has a LCD, anybody know if there is any onboard video with dvi? socket 478

 

[dmroeder]

I wouldn't worry about getting one with DVI since they make adapters. They even make cables with VGA on one end and DVI on the other.

 

[Crashman]

There might be, but I've never seen one. I believe there's a Socket 479 board for Pentium-M's with DVI, but that's no use to you.

Check around for cheap DVI video cards, but first make certain she doesn't have a VGA connector on her LCD, as many units do. In fact, many older LCD's used VGA exclusively. Such units have to convert the analog VGA signal back to a digital approximation, internally.

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[Crashman]

Bad answer, DVI and VGA aren't compatable. DVI-I has DVI pins plus VGA pins integrated into one connector and can power both through an adapter. DVI-D can't. And it doesn't work in reverse, a DVI monitor doesn't support a VGA signal through the DVI port.

Some flat pannels offer both connectors. Some even used only VGA. But a flat panel that only has DVI can't use a VGA signal, because it won't have the ADC (analog/digital converter).

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