I'm looking to get a new 22" monitor and noticed that it had a DVI-D input, but my card only has a DVI-I output. What type of cable would I need? A regular DVI-I to DVI-I or some special DVI-I to DVI-D cable? And are they sold at regular stores like Best Buy/Circuit City or would I have to order it online (and are they expensive or cheap)?
If someone could help clarify that would be great (if you could include the specific name of the cable and not some general name that would be even better )
Message edited by DanielCD on 12-27-2007 at 03:26:12 AM
Just get a DVI-D cable. DVI-I is just DVI-D with the four pins that carry the analog signal. Plugging a DVI-D cable into a DVI-I port will just mean that there is no possibility of the analog signal traveling to your monitor.
I have 3 vp2130b and they each came with a DVI-I and a VGA cable. I then ordered the DVI-D Dual Link cables online at pacificcable.com as I wanted pure digital signal. Just a heads-up on the monitor setup, I didn't realize I had one monitor setup (in the monitor onscreen setup menu) with the input priority set as "Auto Search", so what happened was on boot the 2 vedeo cards initialized and 2 monitors lit, but the 1 monitor set as Auto Search would not. First I thought I had a Catalyst software settings issue and I could force the 3rd monitor from CCC, but on reboot the Auto Search monitor didn't have enough time to search for the signal, in time for loaded desktop. After all 3 set to DVI-D all is well and 3 monitors are lit for logon. Pics here: http://mysite.verizon.net/fibre/PC/PC.htm
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