Uggh! DVI!!!!
Well, I got my new monitor today. For some reason Dell has chosen to put a DVI-D connector on the monitor, not a full DVI-I. (See Wikipedia’s DVI entry for more info) on their monitor, meaning that I have four extra pins to contend with. Uggh! Why couldn’t Dell just use the DVI-I connector and ignore the analog bits?
I think my best route is to simply break the four extra pins off of the cable. They aren’t needed, anyway.
UPDATE: Fuck. After removing the four extra pins from the DVI-I cable, I have realized that the wide, flat pin on a DVI-I connector is wider than the one on a DVI-D cable. Uggh. So now I need to order a 15′ DVI-D cable in order to use my new monitor properly. Poo.
UPDATE 2: Ahh, it’s working now. I just needed to operate on the cable. Woo! Better than waiting a few days for a new one.
Why are you messing with DVI pinout?
Uhh, I got a new panel and it only has a DVI-D connector. I have a DVI-I cable, and some pins don’t fit right. I ended up just removing *all* the analog pins. Now it works properly.
I thought the DVI-I standard was compatible with both DVI-A and DVI-D though. Damn, that’s retarded. These days even generic parts are proprietary. Anyway, I knew you could do it, I just didn’t understand why you were doing it.
Naw, it is only kinda compatible. :) I ended up just ripping out all the analog pins. The four plus the ground. A pinout I found showed that it was all analog connections, and since I’d already broken the analog stuff, it was either I make it work, I just wait for a new cable to arrive while using an analog connection, or it breaks and I use the analog connection until the cable arrives.
Man, I haven’t actually used a pinout diagram to modify a cable since LapLink.
Heh, I do it all the time. Or I find myself looking up pinouts so that I can make custom cables.
DVI DIY DOA!!!
Hehe, you left both the PC and your thai food here. :P Want to come get it tomorrow?
Sure! I can stop by on my way back from my ‘rents. :)
Nifty. That’ll work out well. :)