Monitor Connection Question

[adi67]

I want to connect a second PC to my Dell 2405FPW monitor. I've found a DVI-Analogue Video cable - will this be all I need? Does the connected graphics card (it will be an ATI X1900) detect that it is driving an analogue input or is there somewhere in the CCC that I need to set this?

Thanks...

 

[adi67]

Great, thanks. I had originally assumed it would be but when I looked at a DVI/VGA cable online it had a bunch of guff beneath it about it needing the DVI port to be outputting an analogue and not digital signal, which muddied the waters for me.

Thanks chaps.

 

[adi67]

That explains it...thanks, always prefer to understand why things are the way they are.

Anyway, hooked it all up via a spare DVI lead with a DVI to VGA converter I found in my box of bits and it's work just fine. Shame the PiP doesn't seem to cover this input on my monitor but I guess that's just being picky!