Topic: DVi cables. Q: I just purchased a Samsung Synchmaster 953BW Monitor with DVi-D HDCP and it needs to connect to a GeForce 8400GS Graphics card (512M b DDR2) which takes DVi-i . Can you get a DVi-D to DVi-i cable or will a 2M DVI-D M/M work?
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nadjadee
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I would expect the DVI-D cable to work fine for you. DVI-U (integrated) has both the modern digital signals and the old-fashioned analog signals in the same cable. This allows you to put a DVI to VGA converter on the end of the cable and plug it into an old VGA monitor. So your graphics card is generating both analog and digital signals in order to drive either kind of monitor. But if the monitor takes the digital signal, then it doesn't need the analog signal at all. So a DVD-d (digital only) cable will do fine. The only problem you might have is that when the system boots, the BIOS only outputs to the analog channels, so you may have a blank screen until quite late in the boot process. That is what happens with my DVI system.
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