[Albert Lionheart]

As nobody has replied to this from the TFTT thread (sob) I thought I might make a post about it...

Just discovered something really irritating - in case you have not noticed some of the pins on the DVI connections are no longer used so they have stopped fitting them. These are the 4 pins 2 on each side of the guide strip. Because the pins are no longer there the DVI sockets are also without the little holes.
However, there are still some monitors out there with the old pattern cables which will now not fit the new graphics cards - being a cynic I would think this is deliberate to make old pattern DVI connected screens redundant - or is it because there is a new standard out there and this is a way to make sure old screens are not connected to new cards??

anyone any ideas?

[dudeking]

There's three types of DVI mate.

DVI-D

DVI-A

DVI-I

Both pieces of hardware must be the save version for them to be connected. DVI-D being digital and DVI-A being analogue. (DVI-I is just the type of cable and basically its a cable which works with ether format.)

I'm not 100% but im fairly sure that the pin differences are because on newer DVI-D connections the extra pins are not needed which were needed on DVI-A.

DVI-D configuration


DVI-A configuration


DVI-I configuration