DVI male to VGA female is common: convert the output DVI connector on your GPU to "VGA" so you can use a VGA cable to connect to LCD.
DVI female to VGA male is common: convert the input VGA connector on your LCD to DVI so you can use a DVI cable to connect to GPU.
I suspect female to female will be a bit harder (impossible!) to find (no "typical" uses!)
I have DVI-I DL connectors on some headless machines. The connectors are hard to access. So, I want to tether a DVI-I DL cable to the connector and bring the "free end" out to a place where it would be more accessible, if I ever need to hang a monitor on it (e.g., if the machine won't boot).
Mating that free end to a VGA monitor would require an adapter (the second one described above).
But, the free end won't be long enough to make such a connection easily possible.
I have a "standby" monitor that I connect to any of these machines with a VGA cable that is already attached to the monitor -- I just drag it over to whatever machine needs it. In the past, I would have permanently attached an adapter to each DVI GPU (the first adapter described above) and used the VGA cable to span the distance.
But, I'd like to make the whole DVI-I DL connector accessible "from afar". Any downside to using the second (above) connector with a male-male gender changer to mate the DVI cable (from the GPU) to the VGA cable (to the LCD)?
Yeah, it's not ideal and I suspect video quality issues. But, I'm only using it to read error messages that wouldn't be visible without it.
Maybe I can locate some DVI-I DL male to DVI-I DL female "extension cables"? But, that would be more costly as I'd need one per machine (instead of just one for this VGA monitor!)
DVI female to VGA male is common: convert the input VGA connector on your LCD to DVI so you can use a DVI cable to connect to GPU.
I suspect female to female will be a bit harder (impossible!) to find (no "typical" uses!)
I have DVI-I DL connectors on some headless machines. The connectors are hard to access. So, I want to tether a DVI-I DL cable to the connector and bring the "free end" out to a place where it would be more accessible, if I ever need to hang a monitor on it (e.g., if the machine won't boot).
Mating that free end to a VGA monitor would require an adapter (the second one described above).
But, the free end won't be long enough to make such a connection easily possible.
I have a "standby" monitor that I connect to any of these machines with a VGA cable that is already attached to the monitor -- I just drag it over to whatever machine needs it. In the past, I would have permanently attached an adapter to each DVI GPU (the first adapter described above) and used the VGA cable to span the distance.
But, I'd like to make the whole DVI-I DL connector accessible "from afar". Any downside to using the second (above) connector with a male-male gender changer to mate the DVI cable (from the GPU) to the VGA cable (to the LCD)?
Yeah, it's not ideal and I suspect video quality issues. But, I'm only using it to read error messages that wouldn't be visible without it.
Maybe I can locate some DVI-I DL male to DVI-I DL female "extension cables"? But, that would be more costly as I'd need one per machine (instead of just one for this VGA monitor!)
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