VGA + VGA to DVI adapter... won't fit

Call Me Jimmy

Hey guys, I'm hoping someone can shed some light on what I thought would be a very simple purchase of a new monitor cable.

So the monitor is vga, the computer only has two dvi ports in the back. Thus I needed some sort of VGA -> DVI thing. I bought a vga cable, and a vga to dvi adapter which I thought would do the job.

Turns out they won't fit together because the vga end of the adapter is exactly the same as both ends of the vga cable - neither fits into it.

What I want to know is:
1. Do I have to specify the 'sex?' of each cable/adapter pair I need to get one simple cable from my monitor to my computer?
2. I thought employees in somewhere like Curry's would be knowledgeable enough to sell someone, especially when being bought together for this purpose, cables/adapters that would be fit to use together.

I'm not much of a hardware person as you can see, but I didn't think getting my monitor connected to my pc would be so difficult...

Any info appreciated.

srsly78

You bought the wrong gender converter.

So either:
a) Get a gender-bender (ie a male to female)
b) Get the right converter

The ones with holes are female, and the ones with pins are male :pac: Figure out exactly what kind you want, female<->female, male<->male or what.

To address your questions properly:
1. Yes, as above figure out the sex. It's pretty straight-forward.
2. If they were proper engineers they wouldn't be working in Curry's.

glynf

I think this is what you want & have a few of these about if you want one, PM me.

http://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/ba/Adapter_DVI_to_VGA.jpg

Nothingbetter2d

Call Me Jimmy wrote: »

2. I thought employees in somewhere like Curry's would be knowledgeable enough to sell someone, especially when being bought together for this purpose, cables/adapters that would be fit to use together.

srsly78 wrote: »

2. If they were proper engineers they wouldn't be working in Curry's.

hahaha that did make me chuckle