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    Larger DVI conector?

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by whitrzac, Oct 29, 2011.

  1. whitrzac

    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    I found this oddball adapter at a thrift store, it has what looks to be a DVI plug(more on that later) to 2 standard VGA outputs.


    The dvi connector isn't a standard DVI/DVI I/DVI D/etc it has all of the pins of a DVI I connector, but it is 10-20% LARGER :confused:

    pics later if no one gets it...
     
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    newsposter Notebook Virtuoso

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    pics.......
     
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    Tsunade_Hime such bacon. wow

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    Ya it's DVI but it's like a special kind, goes to 2 x VGA. Alot of old school Dell Precisions/Dimension XPS had them.
     
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  4. whitrzac

    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    my phone sucks...
    [​IMG]
     
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    KLF NBR Super Modernator Super Moderator

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    I'd say it belongs to a Matrox card.
     
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    notyou Notebook Deity

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    I think I remember seeing that type of plug on the Radeon GPUs Dell had in some of their business desktops (Optiplex 740 I think). For whatever reason, the ATI card had some weird proprietary (probably to Dell since that's the only place I've seen these) output so it couldn't use dual displays except when using Dell's provided cable.

    EDIT: pic of the one I remember http://snpi.dell.com/snp/images/products/mlrg/A2587435.jpg
     
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  7. whitrzac

    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    I have one of those too :rolleyes:
     
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    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    free reps to whomever gets it.... :rolleyes:
     
    whitrzac, Oct 31, 2011
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    Kuu That Quiet Person

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    DMS-59 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

    Closest I could come up with. Looks more like dual DVI though.

    I've only seen them in workstation class computers though, they're meant to save space on the bracket so you can run 4 monitors off a single card if you really wanted to and provided the gpu you're using can drive that many.

    Haven't seen any recently though.
     
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    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    its close, but its a completely different adapter, I have 1 of those to 2 VGA ports also :rolleyes:
     
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    chx1975 Notebook Consultant

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    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    yes thats mot as common connector and it isn't dvi it's for low profile cards that don't have space for 2 dvi or 2 vga connectors. i've seen several of these and ven used the mi forget that actual name of it. i've see n it on matrox and radeon.
     
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    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    :confused:


    really, has NBR failed? :eek:
     
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    I think so, they aren't THAT rare and have seen at least 3 of these ports and have seen VGA and DVI variants. in fact i have my self it's at work maybe i should take a pic.
     
    cdoublejj, Nov 2, 2011
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    I know what it is. It is used for a special dual-monitor system card for some Dell desktops. I know this because my part-time job has computers using said connectors. I will snap a picture of it tomorrow when I am on that particular unit.
     
    Star Forge, Nov 3, 2011
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    thats exactly where i found my cards, was from dells.
     
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    Not exactly like yours but it is from a Dell propietary... So case closed??? :p

    [​IMG]
     
    Star Forge, Nov 4, 2011
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    whitrzac The orange end is cold...

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    that is a ati dm59(irrc) I had one of those adapters too...
     
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    [​IMG]

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    No, it's not the LFH-60/DMS-59 , it's VESA Plug and Display - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia this! Finally figured it out. Really bothered me. (Watch how the LFH-60 is four row of pins and the original photo has three rows plus a "hook" which is also missing from the LFH-60.)

    Amusing the Wikipedia article mentions it's mistaken for the ADC which is the mistake I made above.

    The cable is a Dell 5E911 splitter. While I doubt the Vesa Plug and Display was designed as a dual VGA carrier, I bet they just took an existing connector and wired it up. Similar to what happened to the VHDCI SCSI-3 connector which is also used to carry two, even four display signals or 48 100Mbit Ethernet signals.

    [​IMG]

    Ancient (~2000) low profile Dell AGP Radeon VE MM (called Radeon 7000 later) cards used the connector, watch how this card connector has too many holes to be DVI:

    [​IMG]

    Watch how different is the LFH-60 connector which was used later ubiquitously in this role:

    [​IMG]
     
    chx1975, Feb 23, 2012
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