Basically what i want to know is that does A dvi to Vga connector do this: You pklug the dvi half into the graphics card's dvi slot and the monitor goes in the Vga slot ORThe VgA side goes into the Graphics card's VGA slot and your DVI monitor goes into the DVI slotHelp
Alright, here's how monitor connections work: 1. Cable from monitor connects to your VGA(Video Card or VGA port on your motherboard) 2. Monitor gets picture from the VGA You only use ONE plug from your monitor to tower, never two, unless you're using two monitors. In your case, plug the DVI cable into the DVI port of your monitor and tower. You may not have a DVI port on your monitor, make sure you have one. If you don't, that have adapters for DVI(the gray port with square holes)TO Serial(the blue port) connections. But instead of getting an adapter, I would just buy a monitor with a DVI port on it.
If your graphics card output is VGA and monitor is DVI then configure the connection.It does not matter what sequence the connectors areas long as it's connected it's OK.
Graphics card DVI-I port to monitor VGA will work. Graphics card VGA to monitor DVI will NOT work. That's because the DVI-to-VGA adapter is actually just a pass-through connector-- The DVI-I (the I stands for Integrated) port on the graphics card can output both analog VGA and digital DVI signals through the same port, and the DVI-to-VGA adapter merely passes the VGA signal through. It does NOT convert a signal from digital-to-analog or analog-to-digital. So if you try to hook up a graphics card VGA (analog) to a monitor DVI (which is digital-only) with that adapter, it will NOT work. You will get no image on the monitor.
Typically it puts a vga port on your graphic card. Because of vga cables normally being male on one side and female on the other.
