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04-06-2009
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| Home Premium 32 | What is the white monitor cable for? My PC and graphics card have a hook-up and I have the cable to, that is white. What is this cord?? I cant use it, it just says no signal if its hooked up. What im trying to do is have 2 monitors hooked up, my grahics card has the regular VGA cable I guess, and this white port, which I dont understand and doesnt work anyway. Any info on this? |
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04-06-2009
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| Windows 7 Ultimate 32Bit (Build 7600) | Re: What is the white monitor cable for?  Quote: Originally Posted by Boarder250  My PC and graphics card have a hook-up and I have the cable to, that is white. What is this cord?? I cant use it, it just says no signal if its hooked up. What im trying to do is have 2 monitors hooked up, my grahics card has the regular VGA cable I guess, and this white port, which I dont understand and doesnt work anyway. Any info on this? The cable with the white plugs at each end is a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) cable. This is the video element of an HDMI cable and enables your monitor to display higher quality graphics. Your monitor and PC will automatically detect if either the analogue (Blue plugs) or DVI (White plugs) is connected on boot up and will then configure itself accordingly. It is not possible to use both the DVI and VGA cables at the same time. Did you reboot your PC after you connected the DVI cable? Did you disconnect the VGA cable? Not all graphics cards support multiple monitors, if your card could output to 2 monitors it would have 2 connections of the same type. It is a lot easier to answer your questions if you complete the system specification section. Regards UKMedia |
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04-06-2009
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| Home Premium 32 | Re: What is the white monitor cable for? Quote: Originally Posted by UKMedia Quote: Originally Posted by Boarder250 My PC and graphics card have a hook-up and I have the cable to, that is white. What is this cord?? I cant use it, it just says no signal if its hooked up. What im trying to do is have 2 monitors hooked up, my grahics card has the regular VGA cable I guess, and this white port, which I dont understand and doesnt work anyway. Any info on this? The cable with the white plugs at each end is a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) cable. This is the video element of an HDMI cable and enables your monitor to display higher quality graphics. Your monitor and PC will automatically detect if either the analogue (Blue plugs) or DVI (White plugs) is connected on boot up and will then configure itself accordingly. It is not possible to use both the DVI and VGA cables at the same time. Did you reboot your PC after you connected the DVI cable? Did you disconnect the VGA cable? Not all graphics cards support multiple monitors, if your card could output to 2 monitors it would have 2 connections of the same type. It is a lot easier to answer your questions if you complete the system specification section. Regards UKMedia I would assume my card could support 2 monitors, it does have the VGA DVI and S-video on it, but I mean 1st step is atleast getting the white DVI cable to even work or recognize a monitor. |
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04-07-2009
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| Windows 7 Ultimate 32Bit (Build 7600) | Re: What is the white monitor cable for? Quote: Originally Posted by Boarder250 Quote: Originally Posted by UKMedia Quote: Originally Posted by Boarder250 My PC and graphics card have a hook-up and I have the cable to, that is white. What is this cord?? I cant use it, it just says no signal if its hooked up. What im trying to do is have 2 monitors hooked up, my grahics card has the regular VGA cable I guess, and this white port, which I dont understand and doesnt work anyway. Any info on this? The cable with the white plugs at each end is a DVI (Digital Visual Interface) cable. This is the video element of an HDMI cable and enables your monitor to display higher quality graphics. Your monitor and PC will automatically detect if either the analogue (Blue plugs) or DVI (White plugs) is connected on boot up and will then configure itself accordingly. It is not possible to use both the DVI and VGA cables at the same time. Did you reboot your PC after you connected the DVI cable? Did you disconnect the VGA cable? Not all graphics cards support multiple monitors, if your card could output to 2 monitors it would have 2 connections of the same type. It is a lot easier to answer your questions if you complete the system specification section. Regards UKMedia I would assume my card could support 2 monitors, it does have the VGA DVI and S-video on it, but I mean 1st step is atleast getting the white DVI cable to even work or recognize a monitor. What monitor and graphics card do you have? If you view the properties of the monitor when the VGA cable is connected, what is the name of the monitor? |
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04-07-2009
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| Home Premium 32 | Re: What is the white monitor cable for? Updated my system specs with that info, As for checking properties while VGA hooked up, how can I even do that if I cant even get to desktop because I cant get the monitor to work with that cord hooked up ? |
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04-07-2009
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| Windows 7 Ultimate 32Bit (Build 7600) | Re: What is the white monitor cable for? Quote: Originally Posted by Boarder250 Updated my system specs with that info, As for checking properties while VGA hooked up, how can I even do that if I cant even get to desktop because I cant get the monitor to work with that cord hooked up ? Do you have one or 2 DVI connections on the card? |
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04-07-2009
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| Home Premium 32 | Re: What is the white monitor cable for? 1 DVI and 1 VGA, and a S-video in the middle |
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04-07-2009
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| Vista Home Premium 32-bit & Vista Ultimate 64-bit both Service Pack 2 W7 Pro RTM 7600 32 & 64 | Re: What is the white monitor cable for? Hmm... Refering to the user manual for your monitor: http://downloadcenter.samsung.com/co...521H-03Eng.pdf have you checked the following?  |
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04-07-2009
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| Windows 7 Ultimate 32Bit (Build 7600) | Re: What is the white monitor cable for? Quote: Originally Posted by Boarder250 1 DVI and 1 VGA, and a S-video in the middle Unless anyone knows better, I can't see how your card can support multiple monitors with only 1 VGA and 1 DVI connector. How old is your graphics card? |
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04-07-2009
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| Windows 7 x64 | Re: What is the white monitor cable for? Quote: Originally Posted by UKMedia Quote: Originally Posted by Boarder250 1 DVI and 1 VGA, and a S-video in the middle Unless anyone knows better, I can't see how your card can support multiple monitors with only 1 VGA and 1 DVI connector. How old is your graphics card? As for there being no output on the monitor with DVI, my first bet would be to change the source like what Dwarf posted. |
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