So you have a DVI monitor and but sadly your graphics card to your computer is a VGA port. You think to yourself you wasted all that money on a new monitor and now you have no way of getting it to work with your PC. The only thing you can hope for is that some miracle technology springs a pair of legs and walks right to your house and delivers the remedy to your severe technological problem.
We have good news and bad news on such a matter while an appropriate DVI cable that allows you to connect to a VGA card won’t actually grow legs and walk to your house to fix this problem but it does exist. That’s good news isn’t it?! You didn’t waste your money after all.
Now we suppose we were a little hasty in saying that the cable wouldn’t grow legs to walk to your house, after all if you did actually order one of these cables on the internet we suppose you could technically say that the delivery man walking to your front door would sort of count. Then again that’s not as important a thing as telling you how exactly DVI to VGA comptability works. This of course is the main idea of this DVI cable article.
It’s important to be aware that for example you could have a VGA to DVI cable that has male connectors on both ends and work just as well the other way around with DVI to VGA. However, in this case it will only work with analog DVI devices.
The converter cable that’s used for VGA to DVI enables a DVI ported monitor connection to VGA ported video cards. For example this would allow a DVI-A ported monitor to be used with an industry standard video card.
DVI to VGA cables allow for a connection to DVI-A and DVI-I graphics cards to any analog monitor such as an analog LCD or CRT. However they’re not digital to analog cables per say. The cable will transmit a DVI-A signal or the analog part of a DVI-I signal to the VGA port. However, it won’t change a DVI-D signal from digital to analog.
This is how the DVI to VGA cable is actually broken down and made. One connector is a DVI-A analog and the opposite connector the part that will go into the VGA cable is the industry standard 15-pin VGA/SVGA male connector. If in the event you have either a DVI or VGA cable already a separate DVI to VGA adaptor can be purchased.
In any case it is not a lost cause and there are solutions to fixing what in the end will be a very small quandary should this happen to you dear reader. Most reliable big box electronic stores or computer specialty shops will carry any of these accessories. If worse does indeed come to worse the internet is always a valuable option.
We know we repeat ourselves but often times it is always a good idea to help by providing as much information as possible even if it’s slightly the same. Either way we know you love to read us so we get any little bit we can in there. But anyway we’re going to shut up and let you get what you need so you can enjoy future articles from us in a whole new light!
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