I have a gateway mx6650 laptop with a standard VGA monitor output and my mac 30″ show has only a DVI-D dual link connector. Will my laptop, with an ATI 3D RAGE PRO PCI video card, be able to power the 30″ with some kind of VGA to DVI-D converter? All I want to do is test the monitor to see if it will turn on, but it won’t turn on without an input. Any help is appreciated, TIA!
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Nope. Won’t work.
The 30″ Apple Cinema Show’s dual-link DVI input can only receive a digital TMDS video signal.
Your laptop’s VGA port can only send out an analog RGBHV signal, which the 30″ ACD cannot use.
A DVI-to-VGA adapter will NOT work. Those are intended for computer graphics cards with DVI-I outputs that can also send out a VGA signal.