DVI to...DVI?

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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.
 
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.
 
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.
 
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
 
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