And, finally, disregard this query. I've googled enough to finally find a definitive answer - NO. You cannot adapt a mini display port to a DVI graphics card. Entirely different protocol, not just different connectors. Bye-bye mac branded monitors.
gh
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> On Apr 6, 2017, at 2:55 PM, Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> Sorry, no system for posting photos that I'm aware of.
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> The correct term is 'mini display port' - looking to use that monitor connection (male) with a graphics card that only has a femail DVI connection.
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> (I'm looking at second-hand mac LED monitors, pre-thunderbolt.)
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> I don't think the adapter exists; there may be a technical reason for it.
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> gh
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> Greg Huson
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> Secret Headquarters, Inc
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> 323 677 2092
> www.SecretHQ.com
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> > On Apr 6, 2017, at 2:02 PM, Damon Claussen damon@hdcut.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> > (mini monitor plug) can post pic of this?
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> >> On Apr 6, 2017, at 11:04 AM, Greg Huson Greg@SecretHQ.com [Avid-L2] <Avid-L2@yahoogroups.com> wrote:
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> >> Looks like one of my first-generation cinema displays just retired. I'd love to keep using these, but never really liked the off-color fluorescent-backed LCD, so would prefer to use an LED backed model. of course, my monitor extender is DVI. Is there an adapter to put the mini-plug into a DVI graphics card? There are TONS of adapters to go the other way - to plug a DVI into a mini-monitor plug (or whatever it's called) on a graphics card. Anyone seen one the other way?
> >>
> >> I could go Dell, but, you know, love that aluminum frame. Also, my Dell and HP monitors seem to die WAY faster - years sooner, in fact. This is the first time a mac monitor has failed on me, actually.
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> >> gh
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> >> Greg Huson
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> >> Secret Headquarters, Inc
> >> Production / Post Production
> >> Culver City, CA
> >> 323 677 2092
> >> www.SecretHQ.com
> >> www.DigitalServiceStation.com
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