mark4man
03-31-2008, 12:56 PM
People...
Finally sold my old CRT Monitor; & went shopping last night for a new 22" LCD wide-screen [to go w/ the new ADK workstation located in my (music) project studio]. Really looking forward to using SONAR on a wide-screen, w/ top-flite detail & clarity.
Trouble is...the pin configuration on the DVI output of my graphics card is different than that of the DVI inputs on every monitor I looked at (at both Best Buy & Circuit City). The graphics card as installed by the mfg. (ADK)...as listed on my quality control checklist (which came packed w/ the machine) is noted as a 'GeForce 8400GS 256 MB Video Card'. Yet the manual that also came w/ the machine is an 'XFX' manual. [This was the first item that threw me off, as I have always been under the assumption that the GeForce series of video cards were mfg.'d by nVidia Corp.
So the DVI pin configuration problem is as follows:
The OUTPUT port from my graphics card has the typical 3 rows of 8 pins to the left...w/ a 4 pin corner quad surrounding a central horizontal slot, on the right.
The INPUT on all of the monitors I checked out last night, have the same 3 rows of 8 pins on the left...but only have a center horizontal slot on the right (i.e., missing the set of 4 pins surrounding that slot).
One sales kid (for lack of a better term), told me that the cables sold in the store (which all match the configuration on their monitors) would work...that it was a "universal" cable, of sorts. A second sales youth told me I would need to go to an electronics distributor & get a precise match (???~!@#$%^&*???).
I have a support request in to ADK...but in the meantime...can anyone here offer any insight as to how I should proceed? I would very much like to go directly from work today...to Best Buy; & grab one of these monitors…since, right now...I have no monitor...& need one quickly to keep working on my upcoming CD.
Thanks very much,
mark4man
Finally sold my old CRT Monitor; & went shopping last night for a new 22" LCD wide-screen [to go w/ the new ADK workstation located in my (music) project studio]. Really looking forward to using SONAR on a wide-screen, w/ top-flite detail & clarity.
Trouble is...the pin configuration on the DVI output of my graphics card is different than that of the DVI inputs on every monitor I looked at (at both Best Buy & Circuit City). The graphics card as installed by the mfg. (ADK)...as listed on my quality control checklist (which came packed w/ the machine) is noted as a 'GeForce 8400GS 256 MB Video Card'. Yet the manual that also came w/ the machine is an 'XFX' manual. [This was the first item that threw me off, as I have always been under the assumption that the GeForce series of video cards were mfg.'d by nVidia Corp.
So the DVI pin configuration problem is as follows:
The OUTPUT port from my graphics card has the typical 3 rows of 8 pins to the left...w/ a 4 pin corner quad surrounding a central horizontal slot, on the right.
The INPUT on all of the monitors I checked out last night, have the same 3 rows of 8 pins on the left...but only have a center horizontal slot on the right (i.e., missing the set of 4 pins surrounding that slot).
One sales kid (for lack of a better term), told me that the cables sold in the store (which all match the configuration on their monitors) would work...that it was a "universal" cable, of sorts. A second sales youth told me I would need to go to an electronics distributor & get a precise match (???~!@#$%^&*???).
I have a support request in to ADK...but in the meantime...can anyone here offer any insight as to how I should proceed? I would very much like to go directly from work today...to Best Buy; & grab one of these monitors…since, right now...I have no monitor...& need one quickly to keep working on my upcoming CD.
Thanks very much,
mark4man