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VGA + VGA to DVI adapter... won't fit

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  • 10-02-2012 4:29pm
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    Call Me Jimmy
    Registered Users Posts: 8,449 ✭✭✭


    Hey guys, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on what I thought would be a very simple purchase of a new monitor cable.

    So the monitor is vga, the computer only has two dvi ports in the back. Thus I needed some sort of VGA -> DVI thing. I bought a vga cable, and a vga to dvi adapter which I thought would do the job.

    Turns out they won't fit together because the vga end of the adapter is exactly the same as both ends of the vga cable - neither fits into it.

    What I want to know is:
    1. Do I have to specify the 'sex?' of each cable/adapter pair I need to get one simple cable from my monitor to my computer?
    2. I thought employees in somewhere like Curry's would be knowledgeable enough to sell someone, especially when being bought together for this purpose, cables/adapters that would be fit to use together.

    I'm not much of a hardware person as you can see, but I didn't think getting my monitor connected to my pc would be so difficult...

    Any info appreciated.


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    srsly78
    Registered Users Posts: 7,157 ✭✭✭srsly78


    You bought the wrong gender converter.

    So either:
    a) Get a gender-bender (ie a male to female)
    b) Get the right converter

    The ones with holes are female, and the ones with pins are male :pac: Figure out exactly what kind you want, female<->female, male<->male or what.

    To address your questions properly:
    1. Yes, as above figure out the sex. It's pretty straight-forward.
    2. If they were proper engineers they wouldn't be working in Curry's.


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    glynf
    Registered Users Posts: 3,387 ✭✭✭glynf


    I think this is what you want & have a few of these about if you want one, PM me.

    http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Adapter_DVI_to_VGA.jpg


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    Nothingbetter2d
    Closed Accounts Posts: 4,037 ✭✭✭Nothingbetter2d


    Call Me Jimmy wrote: »
    2. I thought employees in somewhere like Curry's would be knowledgeable enough to sell someone, especially when being bought together for this purpose, cables/adapters that would be fit to use together.
    srsly78 wrote: »
    2. If they were proper engineers they wouldn't be working in Curry's.

    hahaha that did make me chuckle :D


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