Need help Parallel Port to VGA?

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eternaljammer

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Okay, I made my buddy a kick butt rig but his monitor only takes parallel port not vga or dvi. is there an adapter I can buy or something to get his monitor connected to this video card?
 
LOL. There is no way in hell that is a parallel port for a video card. Parallel would be way the hell to slow to even show VGA (640x480) graphics.

What kind of video card is that?
 
Parallel port? Haven't heard of a parallel port based monitor before. You're talking text mode only, probably.

It could be Open LDI (looks a bit like DB-25). Is it a Silicon Graphics monitor? You can (could?) get adaptors that will convert it to DVI. No idea how much they cost or even if they're still available.

edit: found one: http://www.drbott.com/prod/db.lasso?code=0152-SGIS
Even if it was the right connector, at $249 dollars you might as well tell him to get a new monitor.

edit2: forgot you asked for VGA.Seems the SGI Multilink would do that but it's out of production now. Ebay?
 
eternaljammer said:
Okay, I made my buddy a kick butt rig but his monitor only takes parallel port not vga or dvi. is there an adapter I can buy or something to get his monitor connected to this video card?
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No modern consumer graphics cards use anything but DVI or VGA :confused:

what on earth are you talking about? HDMI? If he just built a "kick butt" rig, then he shouldn't be using it with an ancient monitor.
 
-=Antimatter=- said:
No modern consumer graphics cards use anything but DVI or VGA :confused:

what on earth are you talking about? HDMI? If he just built a "kick butt" rig, then he shouldn't be using it with an ancient monitor.
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there's no way a man can confuse HDMI with a parallel port, maybe with a USB but not parallel(hopefully for the sake of man kind).

but i've never seen something that could look like a parallel port, even on really old ISA card.... take a pic of the connector or draw it with good old Paint!
 
It can't be a parallel port unless it's a so called "dumb" terminal from the late 70ies.

You better double check what kind of connection that thing really has before you start plugging in some cables.

BTW, i agree with pretty much the others: You built him a killer rig and didn't buy a monitor or didn't even look at the monitor he has?
 
Does the connector look like these pictures?

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If so it's OpenLDI and I'd give up on it.
 
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