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old_schooler
Jun 28th, 2008, 12:47 AM
I have a couple of older TV's (Phillips RPTV and and Acer 32" LCD).
I've never used the DVI interfaces but now I'm looking into it.
The intent was to hook up a computer to the 32" LCD TV but the cable that I got will plug into the video card but not the TV.
The DVI interfaces on the TV's seem to have an extra set of small vertical slots next the one horizontal slot if you get my drift (hard to explain in an email without pictures) and maybe they are not important in the gran scheme of things but I just can't seem to get the cable plugged in.

I'm looking at the following url and it is like the DVI-D female connector but not seeing exactly what I have:
http://www.directron.com/dviguide.html

The cable I have is a DVI (24+5pin) MtoM.
Can anybody give me some pointers here?
tabrisfreewill
Jun 28th, 2008, 01:43 AM
Not sure what you mean by vertical slots beside the horizontal one. These are all the DVI interfaces, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface#Connector, if your LCD TV doesn't match any of those, then I don't think it is an DVI connector.
willy
Jun 28th, 2008, 07:00 AM
How about this one ... http://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=102&cp_id=10209&cs_id=1020902&p_id=2408&seq=1&format=2

http://images.monoprice.com/productlargeimages/24082.jpg
ItemFinder
Jun 28th, 2008, 07:32 AM
The TV input is probably DVI-I (integrated, digital & analog) (Dual Link). I checked my TV and that's what I have.
Aske001
Jun 28th, 2008, 10:31 AM
Wikipedia has some good illustration diagrams of the connectors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface

You should be able to plug a DVI-D cable into a DVI-I connector, so perhaps you have the opposite situation: DVI-I cable from the computer trying to plug into DVI-D on the TV.
old_schooler
Jun 28th, 2008, 11:26 AM
Wikipedia has some good illustration diagrams of the connectors: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interface

You should be able to plug a DVI-D cable into a DVI-I connector, so perhaps you have the opposite situation: DVI-I cable from the computer trying to plug into DVI-D on the TV.

Thanks. Good illustrations as you say.
It says "The long flat pin on a DVI-I connector is wider than the same pin on a DVI-D connector," which I believe is my situation.
The DVI-D Single Link cable I picked up from Princess Auto fits so I'll try that.
The other cable (which I can no longer find today :confused: ) must have been a DVI-I cable I had.

Thanks for the response!