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help please. DVI - VGA adapters
Hello,
I got computer with video card ATI Radeon 9200 (128 MB). I was going to connect my two monitors, both with VGA plugs. At the time I did not know difference between DVI-D and DVI-I so I thought that I would simply buy a DVI-VGA adapter for $5 and later, when I would buy LCD monitor, I would simply unplug the adapter and would be good to go. Well, I have all the things, computer is working, but only on one monitor. I got adapter that connects DVI-I to VGA. But my video card has connector for DVI-D!!!! Please, somebody help me. I cannot find DVI-D to VGA anywhere. What should I do. Does it exists? Should I add another video card? Replace the one that I have? Any idea will be very appreciated. Thanks Purmar |
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It's been my experience that the ATI cards with DVI-D connector (8500LE) did
so since they only had one RAMDAC and cannot support dual monitors. All higher end cards have DVI-I with analog output and support dual monitors just fine. You got screwed buying a low end card. -Kent |
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"purmar" wrote in message
k.net... [...] Well, I have all the things, computer is working, but only on one monitor. I got adapter that connects DVI-I to VGA. But my video card has connector for DVI-D!!!! Please, somebody help me. I cannot find DVI-D to VGA anywhere. What should I do. Does it exists? Should I add another video card? Replace the one that I have? DVI-D = DVI-Digital. There is no analog signal in a DVI-D interface, so a DVI-D to VGA adapter is not possible, I'm afraid. You can only use an LCD wth a digital input. Tony |
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"Tony A." wrote in message
news "purmar" wrote in message k.net... [...] Well, I have all the things, computer is working, but only on one monitor. I got adapter that connects DVI-I to VGA. But my video card has connector for DVI-D!!!! Please, somebody help me. I cannot find DVI-D to VGA anywhere. What should I do. Does it exists? Should I add another video card? Replace the one that I have? DVI-D = DVI-Digital. There is no analog signal in a DVI-D interface, so a DVI-D to VGA adapter is not possible, I'm afraid. You can only use an LCD wth a digital input. Which seems ironic as most LCD panels will convert the signal back to analogue again anyway ;-) You could, in theory, get a converter that consists of DACs to change it to analogue. Not sure if that exists, but would probably be more expensive than the video card! Scott |
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"scott" wrote in message
... [...] DVI-D = DVI-Digital. There is no analog signal in a DVI-D interface, so a DVI-D to VGA adapter is not possible, I'm afraid. You can only use an LCD wth a digital input. Which seems ironic as most LCD panels will convert the signal back to analogue again anyway ;-) It's the other way round - LCDs are fundamentally digital, but most take an analogue signal and convert it to digital, purely for compatibility with the majority of vid cards which only have analogue output. DVI-D is very sensible, getting rid of the whole digital-analogue-digital conversion, it's a shame analogue VGA is so standard that it hasn't make much of an impact yet. Tony |
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"Tony A." wrote in message
... "scott" wrote in message ... [...] DVI-D = DVI-Digital. There is no analog signal in a DVI-D interface, so a DVI-D to VGA adapter is not possible, I'm afraid. You can only use an LCD wth a digital input. Which seems ironic as most LCD panels will convert the signal back to analogue again anyway ;-) It's the other way round - LCDs are fundamentally digital, but most take an analogue signal and convert it to digital, purely for compatibility with the majority of vid cards which only have analogue output. Believe me, the digital signal you give to your TFT LCD goes straight into a DAC to produce an analogue voltage to drive the pixels at different brightnesses. The analogue signal does not need to go through this DAC (depending on design of the panel, some convert it to digital, then back to analogue again to do the filtering and improve timing/sync). DVI-D is very sensible, getting rid of the whole digital-analogue-digital conversion, it's a shame analogue VGA is so standard that it hasn't make much of an impact yet. The point of DVI-D is that it gets rid of all the timing problems that you normally need to set with monitors. Because the LCD panel has a digital input, it can generate it's own analogue signal that will exactly correspond to each pixel, whereas if you have an analogue input it just has to guess where each pixel is (in time) on the video signal. Hence you need to set the width, height and offsets (mostly done automatically though) with analogue input, but no need with digital. DVI-D is better because the DAC is in the monitor, not the graphics card. In most cases there is just one digital to analogue conversion, and that either happens in your graphics card or in the monitor. Scott |
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"scott" wrote in message
... [...] Believe me, the digital signal you give to your TFT LCD goes straight into a DAC to produce an analogue voltage to drive the pixels at different You're kind of right, but it doesn't quite go "straight into a DAC", that's somewhat simplistic, see below. brightnesses. The analogue signal does not need to go through this DAC (depending on design of the panel, some convert it to digital, then back to analogue again to do the filtering and improve timing/sync). It's not quite as simple as just applying a voltage to the pixel porportional to the brightness you want. For example liquid crystal deteriorates due to dc stress, so each pixel needs to be alternately driven positively then negatively on successive writes to minimise the net dc stress. Your analogue VGA signal doesn't do that, that's one reason you can't just apply your analogue input, or a simple derivation of it, directly to the LCD pixels. For that and other reasons, I'd be willing to be bet that there aren't any bare LCD panels that have analogue pixel voltage inputs, though as ever ICBR. Tony |
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"Tony A." wrote in message
... "scott" wrote in message ... [...] Believe me, the digital signal you give to your TFT LCD goes straight into a DAC to produce an analogue voltage to drive the pixels at different You're kind of right, but it doesn't quite go "straight into a DAC", that's somewhat simplistic, see below. OK, so it goes through a look-up table first, but then pretty much straight into the DAC ;-) brightnesses. The analogue signal does not need to go through this DAC (depending on design of the panel, some convert it to digital, then back to analogue again to do the filtering and improve timing/sync). It's not quite as simple as just applying a voltage to the pixel porportional to the brightness you want. For example liquid crystal deteriorates due to dc stress, so each pixel needs to be alternately driven positively then negatively on successive writes to minimise the net dc stress. Normally the voltage on the other side of the LC to that of the signal is altered each frame to help with that. For that and other reasons, I'd be willing to be bet that there aren't any bare LCD panels that have analogue pixel voltage inputs, though as ever ICBR. Yeah I see what you mean, I guess it's probably easier for the brightness and contrast to alter the signal digitally anyway! Scott |
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Can't help myself from butting in here, but this card is a good mid level
card and I have 2 of them. Both of mine have an adapter to connect to D-sub connection and it gives VGA output to be used w/analog LCD monitor or a digital LCD. Why could you not hook it to an analog monitor? "purmar" wrote in message k.net... Hello, I got computer with video card ATI Radeon 9200 (128 MB). I was going to connect my two monitors, both with VGA plugs. At the time I did not know difference between DVI-D and DVI-I so I thought that I would simply buy a DVI-VGA adapter for $5 and later, when I would buy LCD monitor, I would simply unplug the adapter and would be good to go. Well, I have all the things, computer is working, but only on one monitor. I got adapter that connects DVI-I to VGA. But my video card has connector for DVI-D!!!! Please, somebody help me. I cannot find DVI-D to VGA anywhere. What should I do. Does it exists? Should I add another video card? Replace the one that I have? Any idea will be very appreciated. Thanks Purmar |
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On Sun, 21 Dec 2003 21:01:52 GMT, "jasmith"
wrote: Can't help myself from butting in here, but this card is a good mid level card and I have 2 of them. Both of mine have an adapter to connect to D-sub connection and it gives VGA output to be used w/analog LCD monitor or a digital LCD. Why could you not hook it to an analog monitor? Because there are two DVI standards. One concurrently outputs an analog signal out the DVI port (which that little adaptor hooks up to), the other does not, requiring and external DAC box to use an analog monitor. The former uses a simple plug adaptor, The OP apparenty has the latter type. "purmar" wrote in message nk.net... Hello, I got computer with video card ATI Radeon 9200 (128 MB). I was going to connect my two monitors, both with VGA plugs. At the time I did not know difference between DVI-D and DVI-I so I thought that I would simply buy a DVI-VGA adapter for $5 and later, when I would buy LCD monitor, I would simply unplug the adapter and would be good to go. Well, I have all the things, computer is working, but only on one monitor. I got adapter that connects DVI-I to VGA. But my video card has connector for DVI-D!!!! Please, somebody help me. I cannot find DVI-D to VGA anywhere. What should I do. Does it exists? Should I add another video card? Replace the one that I have? Any idea will be very appreciated. Thanks Purmar |
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