DVI Port on Mobo does not like VGA adapter?

[FatRakoon]

I have recently just got hold of a Gigabyte F2A85XN-WIFI Motherboard.
I have an A10 4.1Ghz FM2 CPU and I am knocking it up purely cos its so sweet and cute LOL

Anyway, due to unrelated issues, I have been using a VGA KVM fopr a short while now, and when I went to use this and start installing onto it, I found that I was getting a blank screen.

As it happens, it is not liking the DVI Adapter?

The DVI and HDMI both work fine when I use the proper cable?

But, when I try using DVI to VGA... It does not want to know?

I have chucked a Graphics card onto it for now, but I want to twiddle about with onboard as I want to play about with how good the CPU is, but I am limited because I also need to use the KVM to go between this and my main PC... Thats the plan and has been for a while now.

In fact, I am so anal with this, that I have even gone and bought an exactly compatible Graphics card just to force hybrid crossfire, like I did with the other Boards that I have, that allow it.
Its not arrived yet, but with my other APU Setup, it needs to have the onboard as master... If it allowed the GFX as master then that would be ok, but I am not sure that it works that way?

Anyone have any ideas why?

Is the DVI a different kind?

The small peg on a DVI is shorter than normal and has no pins either side of it, however, I have adapters that are for that. DVI-C I think and so I did assume that they were the right ones?

I even grabbed a normal one, and simply bust the 4 pins around the key, but thats when I realise the key is still too long and so it would not fit anyway ( Never mind, I have loads of them )

What type of DVI port is this? Can it be changed to VGA?

Like I said, with my other DVI cable, its great, so I know it does work, but with my KVM, I am sort of forced to use VGA.

 

[Confused Stu]

Your motherboard has a DVI-D port, which is digital only (DVI or HDMI). You'd need a DVI-I or DVI-A for a passive adapter to be able to run an analogue output (VGA) from it.

To connect a VGA cable to your DVI-D output, you'll need an Active adapter, such as Startech's DVI2VGAE.

 

[Orcvader]

As mentioned above, the motherboard product page states it's a DVI-D port and a VGA adapter will not work, you need a convertor to change the digital signal into analogue.

Seeing as you already bought a graphics card...

Hybrid crossfire is now known as Dual Graphics, and AMD suggests the monitor to be plugged into the discrete GPU anyway: http://www.amd.com/en-us/innovations/software-technologies/dual-graphics

For best performance, AMD recommends plugging the display into your discrete graphics card. This will ensure that even applications that do not take advantage of AMD Radeon™ Dual Graphics will still be able to run on the faster graphics card in your system. However, to be more accurate, we recommend that you plug your monitor into the AMD Radeon™ graphics with the higher model number. If that is your APU, plug into the motherboard, if it is your discrete graphics card, plug into that.

 

[FatRakoon]

Once again, I show im a bit mental!

DVD-D .. Of course it would be FFS, what an idiot I am.

Thanks guys... As soon as I read it, I realised! - Im just not thinking am I?

My defence, I have recently come out of hospital again, after my 12th operation on my leg and I am taking heavy amounts of painkillers ( This is actually true ) and so I am not concentrating properly.

Now, I do have a DVI-D to VGA adapter in the gaff somewhere? - No doubt it will be among the piles upon piles of boxesof bits I have upstairs, but the issue I now have is that:-

1 - I am unable toclimb stairs myself.
2 - I have a son, who is so disgustingly bone idle, that he will go out of his way to do a job so bad, that you never ask him again.
3 - I have a younger son, but he too is also going to deliberately make life hell by not bothering to actually find the part, even though he may very well find it, he will deliberately ignora it and he would rather just move stuff about than actually look.

So, for all intents and purposes... Its gone.

Dual Graphics.
Yes, I noticed that. Never actually took it in to mean anything other than a name change.

I have a couple of options right now. the onboard is 8xxx and I have a card right here thats 6xxx and at the moment, Im half way through installing windows.

I have a card on its way that is the same number as the APU, but when I quickly tried this card out alongside the APU, it did show up as dual, and so I will have a play about tonight... ( shortly - its almost 3am ! - oops! )

I dont really know why I bother to be honest... I just like the option and the sillyness of it all... I have cards that are vastly more powerful and so its not that I need to do anything special, I just like to fiddle. I have only bought all of this purely because I have found that ITX is just cure to work with, and I only actually bothered with it, because I have a #Thermaletake Mozart TX that can take a Second Mobo but it needs to be ITX, and the thing is, that the first ITX Mobo just happened to turn out to be perfect for a hackintish setup and so thats now one of those, and the second was a MediaPC and so I gavce that to a mate, and now this, and its so good, that I am also buying a load of other bits to make yet another PC that wont go into the Thermaltake, and so you know whats going to happen... I still naad another one for the Thermaltake! - LOL.

But this is me all over. I am a complete idiot.

I do however own about 20 PCs and I think a couple are Q6600 setups, one or two I3, I think only one I5, the rest are I7 in various flavours or half decent AMD ones... Oh, and one Hex core AMD is my main Current MediaCentre and even that has a pair of ATI 7770 in crossfire... To play TV for gods sake!!!! - How mental Am I? And why? I am a genuine hoarder but with PCs. At least I have stopped buying Laptops now.

 

[Orcvader]

Which graphics card did you order and what 6000 series card is it? 8000 series is just a rebrand of the 7000 series and the lower end 7000 series is in turn a rebrand of the 6000 series.

 

[FatRakoon]

Im not giving out any clues.

J.K

The best and most compatible cards that I could find is the 6670

The CPU / APU is sporting the 8670D

Clearly, the best option and the most absolute compatible, is the 8670 card, but I cannot find a supplier that sells that ( Didnt look too hard I will admit ).

Right now, there is a much lower spec card in it, and its doing dual, however, I dont know why its doing it, but I get some screen junk such as Black stuff around icons, the screen not updating itself properly, and things not coming up on the screen, requiring me to move the mouse over new windows just to get the stuf to display. Not on everything, but on far too much for my liking.

Again, by the time I got all the O/S and bits all sorted out, it was quite late and I have only really finished all that and not yet put any games on or any real benchmarks.

The one and only benchtest that I did do last night, was to time how long it took, to convert a series of TV programs, from MKV into a single DVD, minus menus and other junk, using the C: on both systems ( cos they are both SSDs ) and using only 2 Cores of thei CPU, and I compared it against the 8350

The 8350 I am running at a stock 4Ghz and the APU is a stock 4.1Ghz

The 8350 took 15 minutes and 12 seconds to do all its files, while the A10 took 24 minutes and 44 Seconds using ConvertXtoDVD. All settings are the same.

Meaning that the APU is a very poor CPU overall... I dont expect it to rule the world by any stretch, but I did expect more than that!

It will do the job I need it to however... Whatever that is going to be I dont know yet, but it will do it all the same. LOL.