Morning all...
I currently have two Samsung syncmaster 971p monitors that i use as a dual monitor setup on my pc.
Each monitor has only one DVI-I input that can accept a dvi or vga signal.
The monitor was supplied with a DVI - VGA cable, or you can fit a DVI cable and use that.
i currently use both monitors via DVI into my 8800GTS graphics card.
All works well and has done for years.
Now... the problem... i wish to have another PC that i also want to use Dual monitors on. One solution would be a dual DVI KVM, but that'll no doubt be expensive.
the monitors will accept both digital and analogue signals, and you can manually switch between the two.
so the question is... can i use two cables like this:
To connect one PC to the two monitors via DVI-D and the other PC to the same two monitors via VGA?
Then just switch the monitors from analogue mode to digital mode to select the PC that i want to use?
these cables seem to be designed to be used to connect a DVI-I output from a graphics card to two monitors, one via dvi and one via VGA, rather that two pcs to one monitor, so i would effectively be using the cable the wrong way around.
has anyone done something like this before? any ideas if it is likely to work?
Thanks guys... Sorry for the huge post
I currently have two Samsung syncmaster 971p monitors that i use as a dual monitor setup on my pc.

Each monitor has only one DVI-I input that can accept a dvi or vga signal.

The monitor was supplied with a DVI - VGA cable, or you can fit a DVI cable and use that.
i currently use both monitors via DVI into my 8800GTS graphics card.
All works well and has done for years.
Now... the problem... i wish to have another PC that i also want to use Dual monitors on. One solution would be a dual DVI KVM, but that'll no doubt be expensive.
the monitors will accept both digital and analogue signals, and you can manually switch between the two.
so the question is... can i use two cables like this:

To connect one PC to the two monitors via DVI-D and the other PC to the same two monitors via VGA?
Then just switch the monitors from analogue mode to digital mode to select the PC that i want to use?
these cables seem to be designed to be used to connect a DVI-I output from a graphics card to two monitors, one via dvi and one via VGA, rather that two pcs to one monitor, so i would effectively be using the cable the wrong way around.
has anyone done something like this before? any ideas if it is likely to work?
Thanks guys... Sorry for the huge post