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DVI connector wont accept cable.

DVI connector wont accept cable.
« on: April 09, 2013, 06:47:48 pm »
Having bought the new GTX 640 grahics card, my friend asked me to install this card in his pc. To my surprise, we could not connect the existing dvi cable to either of the two dvi outputs on the card. He also had two dvi adapters (dvi to vga & dvi to hdmi) which we also tried and failed to connect. He is currently using the vga output. Having looked closely at both the dvi cable and the graphics card, the issue seems to be that the flat metal pin hole (on the left of the card ouyput) seems to be too small on both outputs to sccept the wider metal pin on the cable/adapters. So as far as I can tell, this seems to be a manufacturing issue. I did not want to use a blade or such-like to widen the hole for fear of damaging the connectors. Has anyone ever come across this as I know I havent and I've been building pcs for for two decades.

Re: DVI connector wont accept cable.
« Reply #1 on: April 09, 2013, 08:52:13 pm »
Well..you learn something new everyday...so I'm gonna pass on this wisdom...The DVI connections on the graphics card require a DVI-D (Dual Link) cable and my friend has a DVI-I (dual link) cable...problem solved.

Re: DVI connector wont accept cable.
« Reply #2 on: April 20, 2013, 01:16:39 am »
I think I have the similar issue.

I have a GTX 660TI, and it has a DVI-D and a DVI-I output on it. WHAT THE f*** IS THIS!?
http://www.legionhardware.com/images/review/Gigabyte_GeForce_GTX_660/Image_02S.jpg

Not sure who the idiot who made this design decision is, but now I can only connect one analog monitor to it with a DVI-I adapter.

My GTS 250 had 2 DVI-I, so i could plug in 2 DVI-I adapters, or DVI-D cables (only the DVI-I adapotrs work with analog cables).
http://techreport.com/r.x/geforce-gts-250/gts-250-card.jpg
« Last Edit: April 20, 2013, 01:24:01 am by djvtech »