VladTepes
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I have a supermicro server board and need to connect it to to a monitor. Easy yeah? Read on MacDuff.
So the supermicro has a MALE (yep, male) plug in the back. And I managed to find a monitor which still had VGA input. So far so good ok.
To give the short version - I finally found a VGA cable with female plug at one end and male at the other. Perfect right?
Well, as it happens, NO.
Plugged into monitor yep no problem. So now I have a cable with a female end, and amale plug on the computer... should be easy as right? Nah.
This is the end of the type of cable I was using for the PC.
and as it turns out this is the plug on the PC....
**** supermicro what WERE you thinking ?!
How the **** was I to know there are two (or more) types of VGA cables?
So having done some research it appears that the socket on the monitor is the common type DE-15 (and in that case a female socket) whereas the socket on this bloody computer is a DE-9 and a MALE one at that.
So what I apparently need is... A cable with a female DE-9 plug at one end and either a MALE DE-15 plug (or a male DVI plug) at the other.
If anyone can PLEASE tell me how I can possibly sort this out I'd REALLY appreciate because I'm confused as all heck at the moment....
There must be some other Supermicro owners out there who have had this problem?
So the supermicro has a MALE (yep, male) plug in the back. And I managed to find a monitor which still had VGA input. So far so good ok.
To give the short version - I finally found a VGA cable with female plug at one end and male at the other. Perfect right?
Well, as it happens, NO.
Plugged into monitor yep no problem. So now I have a cable with a female end, and amale plug on the computer... should be easy as right? Nah.
This is the end of the type of cable I was using for the PC.
and as it turns out this is the plug on the PC....
**** supermicro what WERE you thinking ?!
How the **** was I to know there are two (or more) types of VGA cables?
So having done some research it appears that the socket on the monitor is the common type DE-15 (and in that case a female socket) whereas the socket on this bloody computer is a DE-9 and a MALE one at that.
So what I apparently need is... A cable with a female DE-9 plug at one end and either a MALE DE-15 plug (or a male DVI plug) at the other.
If anyone can PLEASE tell me how I can possibly sort this out I'd REALLY appreciate because I'm confused as all heck at the moment....
There must be some other Supermicro owners out there who have had this problem?
