Reader Mike ordered a new Dell system that came with a 21.5-inch LCD monitor. Although the monitor includes VGA, DVI, and HDMI inputs, it included only a VGA cable–even though the setup ...

These 10 annoying computer cables prove that USB-C can't take over fast enough.

How to Use a Dual Video Monitor VGA Y-Splitter Cable. If you run a business and use multiple monitors in your office, you can output the video from your computer to two monitors, even if your ...

Here's a look at the different kinds of cables and adapters you need to connect your computer to your television and how to use them.

VGA was developed in 1987 by IBM. VGA cables have fifteen pins, arranged in rows of five. Three pins of the VGA connection carry red, green and blue color data, respectively. Two of the other pins ...

If you're of a certain age, you too will remember that the gold standard for connecting your gaming monitor was a DVI-D cable if you were lucky, or a VGA cable if you were not.

DisplayPort needs to be retired, like DVI and VGA before it - I just want fewer cables in my life.

Misleading cables are nothing new, but new ones are popping up all the time. The folks at Gamers Nexus detail three cables that aren't really what they seem. HDMI to VGA Cables: these cables, on ...

To reverse engineer the configuration information exchanged between a VGA monitor and a video card, [Ken Shirriff] began by lopping a VGA cable in two.

The video card's red digital to analog converter output (signal pin 1 and ground pin 6 on a standard 15 pin VGA connector) is used as the RF output. The output power is very low so you will likely ...

Use these fixes if the VGA light on your motherboard is ON with no display but GPU works on a Windows 11/10 computer. Check the cable connections.

If you're of a certain age, you too will remember that the gold standard for connecting your gaming monitor was a DVI-D cable if you were lucky, or a VGA cable if you were not.