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From: Jim T. on 5 May 2010 17:09 I bought a new wide monitor - Dell ST2210. it has inputs for vga, dvi, and hdmi. My video card has a DVI output. I bought a cheap DVI-DVI card at Microcenter by ordering, but the cable didn't look like the one in the catalog - has a right-angle connector on one end that won't fit on either the card or the monitor - pins are in the wrong direction! By an old ordering mistake I have a cable with DVI on one end and HDMI on the other. Will it work? I don't need audio.
From: Massimo on 5 May 2010 17:34 On Wed, 05 May 2010 17:09:42 -0400, Jim T. <suenjim4.badaddress(a)comcast.net> wrote: >I bought a new wide monitor - Dell ST2210. it has inputs for vga, dvi, >and hdmi. My video card has a DVI output. >I bought a cheap DVI-DVI card at Microcenter by ordering, but the >cable didn't look like the one in the catalog - has a right-angle >connector on one end that won't fit on either the card or the monitor >- pins are in the wrong direction! >By an old ordering mistake I have a cable with DVI on one end and HDMI >on the other. Will it work? I don't need audio. The hdmi to hdmi will work. There are 3 kinds of dvi connectors and probably they will not all fit on each other so you will have to Google on 'DVI' and compare the there showed images of the diverse dvi's with the dvi's of your cable. Then you'll know what to order. Massimo
From: peter on 5 May 2010 19:57 If the pins on the DVI side of the DVI to HDMI cable matches the DVI output on your video card it will work. peter -- If you find a posting or message from me offensive,inappropriate or disruptive,please ignore it. If you dont know how to ignore a posting complain to me and I will be only too happy to demonstrate :-) "Jim T." <suenjim4.badaddress(a)comcast.net> wrote in message news:i9n3u51jclonr3c2ebkk6eucmldvoot6pn(a)4ax.com... > I bought a new wide monitor - Dell ST2210. it has inputs for vga, dvi, > and hdmi. My video card has a DVI output. > I bought a cheap DVI-DVI card at Microcenter by ordering, but the > cable didn't look like the one in the catalog - has a right-angle > connector on one end that won't fit on either the card or the monitor > - pins are in the wrong direction! > By an old ordering mistake I have a cable with DVI on one end and HDMI > on the other. Will it work? I don't need audio.
From: Paul on 5 May 2010 20:01 Jim T. wrote: > I bought a new wide monitor - Dell ST2210. it has inputs for vga, dvi, > and hdmi. My video card has a DVI output. > I bought a cheap DVI-DVI card at Microcenter by ordering, but the > cable didn't look like the one in the catalog - has a right-angle > connector on one end that won't fit on either the card or the monitor > - pins are in the wrong direction! > By an old ordering mistake I have a cable with DVI on one end and HDMI > on the other. Will it work? I don't need audio. The pragmatic answer is "plug it in and try it". There are a few more comments here. Part way down, they address your question. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface I don't watch enough movies here, to tell you what would happen if your setup doesn't have working HDCP. HDCP is a mechanism for encrypting the data between the video card and the monitor. The movie player software, tries to set up a "protected path", so you can't pirate the raw digital data. If the protected path cannot be set up (i.e. working HDCP), then the movie might not play, or it might play in a reduced resolution. I hope that won't affect other usage of the monitor. There are good odds, if you have a relatively recent video card, that HDCP capability is there. If a video card has an HDMI connector on the faceplate, then HDCP is supposed to be mandatory, as far as I know. If the card has only a DVI connector for digital data, HDCP is optional (not guaranteed). In which case, you'd try to look up the spec for the card, if that was important to you. Some older OSes, don't support protected paths, and don't monkey with the output like modern OSes do. Which might at least make the screen work well for ordinary purposes. This is an example of what happens, when you tell your customers a card has HDCP, when it does not. http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/6/11/get-a-free-ati-radeon-hd-4650-.aspx ******* Do you have a link to the product you bought on the Microcenter site ? I see they're selling at least one "extension cable", which would have the wrong polarity on one end if you just wanted to connect a monitor to a video card. Paul
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