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I have a laptop with an HDMI port and I want to use my old monitor which has VGA port. Do I need HDMI-to-VGA or VGA-to-HDMI adapter?
You need a HDMI-to-VGA adapter. Your laptop is outputting an HDMI signal which has to be converted to VGA.
Some connectors are physically different, but use identical signaling - in these cases a ...
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I have a laptop with an HDMI port and I want to use my old monitor which has VGA port. Do I need HDMI-to-VGA or VGA-to-HDMI adapter?
Many people get this the wrong way round.
Signals go from > to
You might think you're connecting your display to your computer, but you're not. You're connecting the computer to the display.
This ...
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Can a VGA monitor be connected to parallel port?
Unfortunately, no. You would not be able to connect a monitor to a parallel port. They were designed for slow devices, like printers, scanners, etc. Not to mention it would require special device ...
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Can a VGA monitor be connected to parallel port?
Parallel? No not without a lot of skill and patience and a probably-still suboptimal result. Parallel is just too slow for graphics.
A serial console on the other hand, can present text characters ...
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Can a VGA monitor be connected to parallel port?
I started to wonder if this might actually be possible, if one were to bit-bang the parallel port signals and synthesise VGA signalling. However, a VGA dot clock is 25.175MHz and a parallel port in ...
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I have a laptop with an HDMI port and I want to use my old monitor which has VGA port. Do I need HDMI-to-VGA or VGA-to-HDMI adapter?
I'll go through your Q point by point.
Do I need (hdmi to vga adapter) OR (vga to hdmi adapter)? My common sense would tell (vga to hdmi adapter), but I am not 100% sure.
Well, the exact naming of ...
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Can a VGA monitor be used with a DVI/HDMI graphics card?
As per the Wiki article on DVI:
A passive DVI-to-VGA adapter. This adapter will not work with a DVI-D output. It requires a DVI-I or DVI-A output to get the analog signal to a VGA input (even if ...
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Laptop HDMI to DVI monitor not working "no signal"
Connecting HDMI output to DVI input is not straightforward due to HDMI carrying an HDCP-protected signal.
Monitors that don't have an HDMI port are not HDCP-compliant, hence can't display an HDCP-...
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Can a VGA monitor be used with a DVI/HDMI graphics card?
Any VGA only monitor in this day and age is seriously obsolete - most older monitors would be at least DVI capable. Your video card reflects that and has no ports that can be "passively" converted ...
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Can a VGA monitor be used with a DVI/HDMI graphics card?
If you look at the Wikipedia article for DVI, especially the pinout, you'll see that DVI also can carry analog signals (the variant called "DVI-A"). That's why DVI to VGA adapters work: They take the ...
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Is a DVI to VGA adapter reversible?
Passive DVI to VGA
The DVI connector spec provides for pins for an analog signal as well as digital. That design is primarily to allow a computer to provide both analog and digital output through ...
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EVGA and NVIDIA specification difference
The specifications for that EVGA card only mentions Dual-link DVI connectors, which is what is giving the limitation.
DVI is old and hasn't seen any upgrades done to the specification for many years ...
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Can a VGA monitor be connected to parallel port?
I have an old system that I want to connect two monitors with. I have only one VGA port
Then install a second video card. PCs have no limit to the number of VGA cards as long as you can find ...
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External monitor turning black intermittently
I had this exact same problem with a Surface Pro 4, Monoprice monitor MP-28UHDSS. Seemed to start happening after the Windows 2018 May Update. I tried various suggestions, none worked for me until I ...
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How can I extend the desktop across 8 VGA monitors so they operate as one large monitor from one PC?
If your graphics cards are Nvidia, they have a software called Surround Vision that turns any amount of monitors into a single one. http://nvidia.custhelp.com/app/answers/detail/a_id/2667
If you have ...
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Mini DisplayPort to DVI Dual-Link Adapter. Will it add some kind of latency?
Mini DisplayPort (same as DisplayPort but different size) to DVI dual link adapters will work just fine, but only those really expensive active adapters ($100~).
What is a active Mini-DP to DVI dual-...
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Connect PC to Laptop Monitor possible?
The graphic ports in the laptop are usually for graphic output only.
A workaround might be (depending on your location) to borrow a monitor from a friend. Once you got the operating system install ...
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Mac Mini (2018) font is blurry on Samsung Syncmaster 2494HM
Apple is less concerned about non-Retina displays (like yours) these days. This also means that unfortunately font rendering is quite bad on these by default.
According to various sources around the ...
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Laptop HDMI to DVI monitor not working "no signal"
Answer! I've experimented with this, and it seems that HDMI to DVI cables just don't work properly with laptops. However, using a regular DVI cable with an HDMI adapter at the laptop end does work.
I ...
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Is it possible to convert HDMI to DVI to VGA?
The adapter you found on eBay is a (minor) fraud. It cannot provide DVI-I. It can only provide DVI-D. DVI-I is a combined connector for both DVI-A (essentially VGA) and DVI-D. HDMI is only compatible ...
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MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4g - converter
I am using a VGA monitor, so i had to use a DVI to VGA adaptor to
connect to the GPU.
You are using a DVI-I to VGA adapter. The MSI GeForce GTX 1050 Ti 4g OC has a DVI-D port. A DVI-I (digital ...
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What type of display connector is this for a computer monitor?
It looks like a female Digital Visual Interface DVI-D Dual Link port. Wikipedia has a list of video connectors which is helpful in these situations.
(source: Wikipedia)
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2 new monitors and I can get only one to display
You cannot connect the Monitor/TV in this way. Most TV's are equipped with VGA-in, HDMI-in ports, but these are meant for input, not output. In order to connect to multiple monitors, you need to have ...
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How come DVI KVM's are 10x more expensive than VGA KVMs?
Your assumption that the KVM is a passive component is wrong. Even with VGA, the KVM has to correctly manage access to the EDID in the monitor. The video sources cannot read the monitor EDID ...
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My graphics card is DVI-I and my monitor is VGA. Can I use a DVI-D to VGA adapter?
DVI has a number of possible configurations:
DVI-I ("I" stands for integrated; combines digital and analog in the same connector; digital may be single or dual link. Analog is the VGA signal.)
DVI-D ...
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Extend laptop display to 2 monitors
Your setup is feasible, but not using a HDMI -> VGA cable. Unless its a powered (active) adapter, this doesn't work.
The best way to achieve your setup is to use an HDMI to DVI adapter for the main ...
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Are all DVI-D <-> HDMI cables bidirectional?
Yes, you can buy any adapter you like.
Cables and adapters (in this case) are passive, and just make electrical contact.
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are TFTs meant to be used with VGA connection?
All cables, analog or digital, have limited throughput - you can push only so much information through them per second until problems arise. "Information" here, in context of displays, means ...
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How do I switch the input for my monitor from DVI to HDMI from my PC?
For others finding this thread: In the link mentioned by @Ken (thank you! thank you! thank you!), the NirSoft tool ControlMyMonitor is mentioned (once again NirSoft to the rescue!). Using this tool, ...
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Laptop HDMI to DVI monitor not working "no signal"
So based on the comments to the question, I think we have narrowed it down the the HDMI to DVI adapter. The monitor is not detecting a signal from the computer because the computer is not detecting ...
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