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    DisplayPort to DVI cable

    Discussion in 'Lenovo' started by pkincy, May 25, 2011.

  1. pkincy

    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    guys and gals,

    I am totally confused. My Lenovo Dock 3 has a couple of displayports and a couple of male DVI ports.

    I ordered a Lenovo DVI from displayport cable with my X220. However it came in as a displayport male connector (OK) but also as a DVI male connector and the monitor has a male DVI connector.

    It seems worthless to have 2 male connectors to connect together. That will take another cable and than why is the displayport to DVI needed?

    Seems like I bought a pretty worthless device.

    I am confused.

    Perry
     
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    tabrisfreewill Notebook Consultant

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    First of all, your post itself is confusing. Are you saying that your monitor output itself has a male DVI connector or are you referring to the monitor cable? If it's the latter, then you can simply just unplug the monitor cable and connect the displayport to DVI cable to the monitor. Otherwise, you'd have to get another DVI female to female connector.

    But from my understanding, all monitor panels should have female connectors.
     
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  3. pkincy

    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    Monitor has a male connector.

    Viewsonic VX2235 vm. Has VGA and DVI male connector on the back.

    The cable DVI end is also male.

    Are you saying most monitors have female DVI connectors?

    Perry
     
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    Goophy Notebook Enthusiast

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    Yes.
    I've never seen a PC monitor with male connectors before.
     
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  5. pkincy

    pkincy Notebook Evangelist

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    Actually I have been doing some shopping online tonite and was able to see a number of monitors with pictures of their DVI connectors and all were male.

    Both the dock and the monitor are male so a simple cable with 2 female ends are great.

    Actually we could be saying the same thing. I call it male because the large white connector goes in the recess with the many small pins. You may be calling it female because the White plastic has holes to receive the pins.

    Perry
     
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    zfire Newbie

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    Normal "standards" are: this is a male -> Link and this is a female -> Link, although these are pictures of VGA it doesn't matter :)

    I don't have a displayport->dvi cable myself, but from the picture i found on the lenovo site Link, it seems that it is a displayport male to dvi female, which makes sense for an adapter. A displayport to dvi cable should be male to male. A connector in a monitor should therefore be female.

    Hope that clears things up for you.
     
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  7. Sally4

    Sally4 Notebook Geek

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    If your displayport>dvi cable is the same as mine it's only about 6 inches long and is clearly meant as an adaptor rather than for connecting directly to a monitor. So it has the same connector that you will find on a standard PC video card and needs the standard DVI cable that you will normally have with your monitor. Perhaps it should properly be called an adaptor rather than a lead.
     
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