Video Card Problem

[messiahandrw]

After recently upgrading my computer to a AMD 4800 Dual Core, 4gig
DDR400 ram and a ATI Radeon 9500 graphics card, i am having a few
issues. I desided to upgraded my old 14" CRT to a snazzy BenQ 19" LCD
with what's called a 'DVI cable' which came with the LCD. After
connecting up the DVI cable to the monitor, it took me 5 minutes to
plugin the dvi cable into the blue connector on the graphics card.
Finally fitting, i started the computer up and the lcd was working as
good as ever, displaying only the few wrong colours and wierd textures
every few minutes (Bad pixels?).

Now the problem. Last week i went to a lan. After unplugging the
computer, putting it into my car, driving over and setting up, i found
out something bad. When i tryed to plug in the DVI connector into the
graphics card, the cable did not stay in the blue plug, it kept on
dropping out for some reason. So coming home after just watching my
friends play games at the lan for 5 hours, it is still doing it.

Whats the problem?

Thanks.

 

[Michael W. Ryder]

After recently upgrading my computer to a AMD 4800 Dual Core, 4gig
DDR400 ram and a ATI Radeon 9500 graphics card, i am having a few
issues. I desided to upgraded my old 14" CRT to a snazzy BenQ 19" LCD
with what's called a 'DVI cable' which came with the LCD. After
connecting up the DVI cable to the monitor, it took me 5 minutes to
plugin the dvi cable into the blue connector on the graphics card.
Finally fitting, i started the computer up and the lcd was working as
good as ever, displaying only the few wrong colours and wierd textures
every few minutes (Bad pixels?).

Now the problem. Last week i went to a lan. After unplugging the
computer, putting it into my car, driving over and setting up, i found
out something bad. When i tryed to plug in the DVI connector into the
graphics card, the cable did not stay in the blue plug, it kept on
dropping out for some reason. So coming home after just watching my
friends play games at the lan for 5 hours, it is still doing it.

Whats the problem?

Thanks.

Did you plug in the DVI cable into the smaller analog VGA connector or
the larger DVI connector? If you plugged it into the right connector it
should not have taken any time to connect, nor should it be loose.

 

[messiahandrw]

Did you plug in the DVI cable into the smaller analog VGA connector or
the larger DVI connector? If you plugged it into the right connector it
should not have taken any time to connect, nor should it be loose.

There is no larger connector, only the blue one. This problem is very
frustrating. My local computer dealer told me everything should fit
togeather. Why is this tight?

 

[Fidelis K]

There is no larger connector, only the blue one. This problem is very
frustrating. My local computer dealer told me everything should fit
togeather. Why is this tight?

The blue connector is for the analog signal only!!! Probably, your LCD has
an analog input. Get an analog cable ASAP before you ruin the LCD (or both
the LCD & the card).

 

[messiahandrw]

The blue connector is for the analog signal only!!! Probably, your LCD has
an analog input. Get an analog cable ASAP before you ruin the LCD (or both
the LCD & the card).

Just another note, I just realised something... A few of the pins on
the DVI cable appear to have broken while I was trying to connect it to
my video card. Who knows, maybe it was faulty on purchase. I might take
it back tomorrow and complain.

Cheers

 

[Barry Watzman]

Do you even know what a DVI connector looks like? And a VGA connector?
I have a feeling that you are using terms without knowing what they
mean. Your description of events does not make a lot of sense.

Most monitors (all that I've ever seen) with DVI connectors also have
analog VGA connectors (e.g. have both connectors). Cables can have VGA
at both ends, DVI at both ends, and DVI at one end and VGA at the other
end. A DVI-I connector (which video cards with DVI invariably have) can
be converted to VGA. VGA cannot, however, be converted to DVI.

 

[Barry Watzman]

I don't think that he knows what he's got, or what he's using, or what
the difference is.

 

[Barry Watzman]

Some pins are normally missing on purpose. While a pin could be broken,
it's more likely that you are just looking at pins that were never there
and that were never supposed to be there. And I am still not sure what
you are even looking at.

 

[messiahandrw]

I am sure the pins are not missing on purpose as I remember them being
there before I tried using the DVI cable. I think it may be because the
DVI cable had to be pushed in _very_ tightly into the white port for it
to fit.

 

[Michael W. Ryder]

I am sure the pins are not missing on purpose as I remember them being
there before I tried using the DVI cable. I think it may be because the
DVI cable had to be pushed in _very_ tightly into the white port for it
to fit.

Is the DVI connector much larger than the blue connector on the video
card? If it is you are using the wrong cable to connect to the monitor
and that is why you have busted pins, trouble connecting, and why the
connection does not work now. Replace the cable with the proper one or
get another cable and an adapter to replace your current one as it is
probably ruined.

 

[messiahandrw]

It is slightly large, but not by that much. They are roughly the same
shape too, but the one of the video card has slopped edges. Is this how
it is suppose to be? It does take a bit of force to plug it in. I might
take my computer to a friend who knows about video cards and get him to
have a look at it.

 

[Barry Watzman]

For the record: A DVI connector has 3 rows of 8 pins each (24 pins),
and then to one side an area with potentially 5 more pins in a "cross"
arrangement; depending on the exact interface (DVI-D, DVI-A or DVI-I),
some or all of these extra 5 pins may be missing, or may take on
slightly different configurations. Of the 24 pins in the 3x8 array,
there are two sets of 9 pins for each of two possible "links". There
are "single link" and "dual link" cables, a single link will have most
or all of the pins from the 2nd link missing.

A VGA analog connector is a D-Sub 9 shell, with 3 rows of 5 pins each.
Some of these are often normally missing as well.

 

[bandit]

It is slightly large, but not by that much. They are roughly the same
shape too, but the one of the video card has slopped edges. Is this how
it is suppose to be? It does take a bit of force to plug it in. I might
take my computer to a friend who knows about video cards and get him to
have a look at it.

Look at this picture the one on the right is dvi, ( the white plug) I
know that's a 9600 but its the same set up as you got
http://www.newegg.com/Product/ShowI...eGL+9600+128MB+DDR+AGP+4X/8X+Video+Card+-+OEM

 

[messiahandrw]

That looks like my card, but no white plug. Only the small blue one. I
told you they are different shapes. I also managed to get my LCD up and
running again. After about ten tries, the DVI fits into the blue plug
like it should. I am writting this to you on my LCD as we speak! Thank
you all for your help.

 

[Barry Watzman]

That is a VGA connector, and a DVI connector will not fit onto it and
will not work with it. I have no idea what you are doing (and neither,
apparently, do you ... whether you know it or not).

 

[messiahandrw]

That is a VGA connector, and a DVI connector will not fit onto it and
will not work with it. I have no idea what you are doing (and neither,
apparently, do you ... whether you know it or not).

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