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r7 250 misfiled DVI hole

cully4299

cully4299

cully4299

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got a r7 250 on the cheapish. works fine hdmi and all and can run games.
noticed cables don't fit the DVI port as the hole for the centre hasn't been machine propel. is there a way to fix this without damaging the port?

drill with a small bit or something similar??
 
I think some/most R7 250 cards have a DVI-D port, where the bit on the side is a single flat bar. You might be expecting a DVI-I port, where the bit on the side is a cross with a hole in each quadrant of the cross. The difference is the DVI-I supports analogue output through the extra pins (so can be used by a cheap DVI-VGA adapter) where the DVI-D is digital only and cannot be used with a VGA connector without an Active adapter.

This has pretty good pictures of the different DVI connector types:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface#Connector

Don't go drilling the DVI port to try to fit a cable/adapter. If it doesn't physically fit, it's probably not designed to work and electrically incompatible - so any amount of drilling will be pointless.
 
cully4299 said:
I know that part. im trying to but a dvi-d in a dvi-d port. iys the long hole at the end. doesn't seem to be moulded correctly
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In that case, as Varkanoid said - have you got any pictures? While I suppose it's possible the DVI port may have been made incorrectly, it would be pretty weird for it to be allowed out of the factory like it. If it was me, I'd be returning it under RMA as faulty and getting one with a correct DVI port rather than trying to modify it myself and potentially ruin it.
 
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