Can anyone give me any ideas why my hdmi display is not displaying anything when i plug in my 2nd display which is a vga cord with a dvi adapter? my other main 2nd monitor which is dvi died a day ago and only having one is pretty depressing
>>131688
Sure!
VGA is analogue
HDMI is digital
DVI can transport analogue and digital at the same time, as it was intended to phase-out VGA.
If you use a VGA/DVI adapter, it outputs an analogue signal on the DVI cable's analogue pins.
If you use a DVI/HDMI adapter, it expects a digital signal on the DVI cable's digital pins.
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You need to use a VGA port on your display, or a proper DVI-D/DVI-I port on your computer.
>>131697
thank you
any idea why the vga/dvi adapter + hdmi worked for the last 2 days but decided to stop working?
>>131699
No idea.
HDMI does not have analogue pins, and VGA does not have digital pins, so it should never have worked in the first place.
>>131702
i think u might has misunderstood me, i have a hdmi and dvi port, main monitor was hdmi, 2nd was dvi
dvi monitor is dead now, so i went back to a old monitor that is vga so i was u sing a vga to dvi adapter, and all of the sudden my hdmi monitor wont display an hdmi signal if the vga/dvi adapter is plugged in, but it worked for 2 days
