DVI to...DVI?

zeroatma · #1 May 28th, 2007, 12:53 PM

I recently purchased a Mac Pro for my research group at my university. It works fine, came with everything, no problems. It also came with what appears to be a DVI to DVI "adapter," with a DVI in connected to a DVI out with about 2-3 inches of cable. I haven't looked in the manual yet, but I've looked online to try to find out what it is and haven't found any information yet. Any ideas? It seems ludicrous to have such a short extension, and it doesn't look like it adapts anything.

DeltaMac · #2 May 28th, 2007, 01:35 PM

The short, white adapter should be a DVI to VGA adapter, used to plug a VGA display into one of your DVI video ports. The connectors will be completely different on each end.
If the adapter is, in fact, DVI in to DVI-out, (identical configuration except for male and female) then you received the wrong adapter.

zeroatma · #3 May 28th, 2007, 02:10 PM

Thanks, we have the DVI-VGA adapter, and are using it. This is an extra adapter, and does have identical configuration, one male and one female, on the two ends.

Apparently, they sent us an extra part, but a goof at that! No complaints here, just curiosity.

Lt Major Burns · #4 May 28th, 2007, 04:18 PM

dvi looks like this: \ ::::::::: + /

vga looks more like this \ ::::: /

zeroatma · #5 May 28th, 2007, 05:21 PM

Thanks, I know what they look like. In fact, a more accurate depiction is here:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:D...ctor_Types.svg

It has male DVI-D dual link on one end, and female DVI-D dual link on the other, with only a couple inches of cable in between (not feet), and the cable has a "designed by Apple..." stamp on the cable.

icemanjc · #6 May 28th, 2007, 06:04 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by Lt Major Burns

dvi looks like this: \ ::::::::: + /

vga looks more like this \ ::::: /

hahaha. couldn't have done that better myself.

Kees Buijs · #7 June 2nd, 2007, 05:27 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by zeroatma

Thanks, we have the DVI-VGA adapter, and are using it. This is an extra adapter, and does have identical configuration, one male and one female, on the two ends.

Apparently, they sent us an extra part, but a goof at that! No complaints here, just curiosity.

Also sometimes the connector does not fit properly (due to small difference in size of the plug on the monitor cable so it is to big for the available space). Bu adding an extension cable you can solve this problem.

Good luck, Kees

icemanjc · #8 June 2nd, 2007, 09:50 AM

I wonder if somehow its the Apple Display Connector to Regular DVI?