Hook a Apple display up to a PC??

oneshot · #1 01-26-2009, 06:17 AM

Okay I searched google and it was saying something about if you have a DVI output on your PC then it should work?

Well my brother just went off to college with his macbook and he left his Display that he had hooked up to his macbook at home and said that I could use it if I could figure out how to hook it up to my computer.

I have a DVI output on my computer but I looked on the display and it looks like they are different than the PC?

mine looks like the DVI-I duel-link

It looks like I need DVI-D

is that right?

lanceomni · #2 01-26-2009, 09:36 PM

I am assuming you are saying that your monitor has DVI-I Dual link and your computer has DVI-D Single Link?

I do not know of any conversion device but there are a bunch of graphics cards out there which support DVI-I Dual Link.

What kind of graphics card do you have now? Personally I have never come across a DVI-D Single Link but then again ive only had my hands of a small number of cards.

Even if there were some kind of adapter you still wouldn't get dual link support from your card and your refresh rate would probably give you seizures. Single link can support high screen resolutions but can't keep up as fast as dual link.

A second issue is that some displays, those with ADC which have an ADC-DVI converter, have an additional USB cable which is required to adjust brightness. I don't think non-OSX systems can recognize this so you might not be able to adjust brightness. Then again this is only with older cinema displays.

PS If the computer has enough available female parts to accommodate the male parts on your display then it should work out great

nfoav8or · #3 01-27-2009, 09:56 AM

Quote:

Originally Posted by lanceomni

If the computer has enough available female parts to accommodate the male parts [...] then it should work out great

I hope you're not suggesting what I think you are suggesting...

JK

oneshot · #4 01-28-2009, 09:38 AM

haha thanks for the reply.

You got it backwards but it wont change anything (I don't think)

my monitor has a DVI-D Single Link and my Video Card has a DVI-I Duel Link.

I have a Nvidia GeForce 9500 GT graphix card with 512 MB DDR2

That is what my brothers display looks like.

-Thanks for all the help

Dies · #5 01-30-2009, 03:59 AM

From what you're saying you would need something like

http://www.cablesondemand.com/produc...DVIASSTD04.htm

I'm sure if that isn't the right thing you could find a converter from whatever to whatever, and they're usually pretty cheap.

oneshot · #6 01-30-2009, 04:31 AM

Thank you so much. I'm going to look into that.

EDIT:: Wow Im retarded =/

well I decided to try and put the apple display plug into my video card.....

AND IT WORKED!!

Im soooo happy. This monitor is amazing.

Thank you for all the help anyways =))

And sorry for wasting your time....