night guys. its time to pack it in.

Night.

Nite

Morning!

Already?? But I just said night.

Night guys....

Make up your minds!

Well, it is late tonight but pretty soon it will be early tomorrow morning.

Dave, i think that DVI-D cable needs a splitter into 2 DVI-A, you can then hook up one end to a DVI monitor, and to the other end you put a DVI-2 2 VGA cable, and then hook up the monitor.

http://www.optimization-world.com/im...ter%201M2F.jpg
http://www.lcd-info.nl/images/storie...ctor_types.gif
I'de be surprised if the Video card can't do that, i've had that setup for years.

There are no DVI-D to DVI-A splitters. Can't be done. The pic you show is a dual link DVI-D male to two dual link DVI-D females.

electrically no, but mechanically yes, i've had such splitters, i showed you a picture of one.

But most videocards with a Dual Link DVI-D connector, will internally switch to VGA if they detect a VGA monitor on the link.
Just like a regular old DVI-A single link can detect VGA after a monitor is connected with a converter.

The converter just converts the connector, not the signals...

Okay, last time. DVI-D is true digital. It does not convert to analog without a special converter box ($$$). The splitter you showed, again, is a DVI-D male to two DVI-D females. The male has a thin blade and is missing the 4 analog pins. The two female connectors accept only a thin blade and do not accept the analog 4 pins. The only easy conversion you can do, is from DVI-D to HDMI and vice versa.

DVI-A and DVI-I can do what you are talking about.

then it's chit videocard really...

Not really. Analog is being phased out. It just has one analog out and two digital, the DVI-D and HDMI. On the DVI side, the pure digital is better, the signal to the monitor is cleaner than the other two versions. There is another version of this card from AMD, that does have the DisplayPort on it as well. For that, you can find simple adapters.

Had Dell been more clear on which DVI the card had, this may have been avoided. Now I know. In the past, this has not been a problem, as the cards usually were the other DVI versions and I also was not stuck with a 10' cable that can't be easily swapped out.

Simple read on the differences of DVI.
http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html

This is Greek to me.

You mean it's not Latin?

Exactly.

Morning guys

Morning, Rick.