Hi all,
Hopefully I've picked the right section for this question, its driving me crazy.
Basically I have a laptop with a docking station, the docking station has two video out puts, one looks to be VGA, the other is DVI.
I connect two monitors (win xp) and have no issues. I then moved my docking station further away and needed a longer VGA (SVGA ?) cable.
I ordered an extension to the standard out of the box cable.
I got this ( Belkin Video Graphics Cable D-Sub VGA 2m Long Male-Female SVGA Extension Lead | eBay )
Computer boots and the quality is a bit grainy .. but resolution is fine, maxes out for the monitor.
So I think fair enough, an extension is a bad idea and order a long VGA cable, this doesn't give me the res, so I assume I've ordered the wrong cable and order this
( 3M MALE TO MALE SVGA/VGA MONITOR PC TO TFT LEAD CABLE | eBay )
Resolution refuses to max out still, drops to a silly low res ?
The only difference between the cables I can see is the Belkin is missing a pin .. but to be perfectly honest I am a complete noob with video stuff.
Can someone, please explain what I'm doing wrong ?
Hopefully I've picked the right section for this question, its driving me crazy.
Basically I have a laptop with a docking station, the docking station has two video out puts, one looks to be VGA, the other is DVI.
I connect two monitors (win xp) and have no issues. I then moved my docking station further away and needed a longer VGA (SVGA ?) cable.
I ordered an extension to the standard out of the box cable.
I got this ( Belkin Video Graphics Cable D-Sub VGA 2m Long Male-Female SVGA Extension Lead | eBay )
Computer boots and the quality is a bit grainy .. but resolution is fine, maxes out for the monitor.
So I think fair enough, an extension is a bad idea and order a long VGA cable, this doesn't give me the res, so I assume I've ordered the wrong cable and order this
( 3M MALE TO MALE SVGA/VGA MONITOR PC TO TFT LEAD CABLE | eBay )
Resolution refuses to max out still, drops to a silly low res ?
The only difference between the cables I can see is the Belkin is missing a pin .. but to be perfectly honest I am a complete noob with video stuff.
Can someone, please explain what I'm doing wrong ?
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