Monitor Connection Question

adi67 · 4 Aug 2008 at 19:36

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...

dbeckett · 5 Aug 2008 at 00:22

so your graphics card is digital(dvi port) and you want to connect it to a vga(analogue) port on your monitor? The cable should work fine and no software configs have to be done, the cable will handle it all

goujon945 · 5 Aug 2008 at 00:27

Yeah should be plug and play really

adi67 · 5 Aug 2008 at 09:05

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.

El_Watcher · 5 Aug 2008 at 12:11

adi67 said:
it had a bunch of guff beneath it about it needing the DVI port to be outputting an analogue and not digital signal

That is actually true, a DVI port can either output Digital only (DVI-D), Analogue only (DVI-A), or both (DVI-I).
Nearly 100% of graphics cards output DVI-I, so it is not a problem.

adi67 · 5 Aug 2008 at 17:51

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!