Dual Monitor Help!

Can someone please explain to me how to hook up 2  VGA monitors to my current gpu. It has one DVI-I port (which I am using right now with a DVI-I to VGA adapter) but the second port is DVI-D (it is my understanding that DVI-D to VGA adapters don't work) please help me

I don't see how it wouldn't work.

any DVI-I adapters should fit fine in a DVI-D port.

 

DVI-I to VGA adapters do not fit into DVI-D

 

 

Most DVI-VGA adapter is only suited for DVI-I, due to the present of the 4 C pins around C5. DVI-D lacks pins C1-4.

What GPU are you using?

I believe im using the 6970

 

ohhhhhh my bad. I should get my morning coffee before replying to topics.

Sorry

haha all good man

I'm inclined to say "be a man and force it" but generally I give poor advice.

im a caveman too trust me after much frustration I tried

 

I've did a bit of snooping and I came across this: http://www.datapro.net/products/hdmi-dvi-d-to-vga-converter.html

Basically that's what you need in order to convert digital signals to analog.

Holy shit 169$ so im guessing this DVI-D port is completely useless unless I get a monitor that supports DVI-D thanks for the info. Ive got one more option but I have had no luck with that so far either maybe you can tell me whats going on here... I also have an HDMI port I can use and the monitor I have supports HDMI (HP w2207h) when I plug in this monitor to my computer using HDMI I have what looks like red/pink artifacts before the login screen. My monitor goes to sleep right before the login screen (Default video input is set to HDMI). If I uninstall my gpu drivers (or use safemode) I can use the monitor but it has red/pink (dots/lines) artifacts through out the display.

Try to avoid using HDMI for computer connections. The quality from them is ridiculous. There's like alot of blocks and rips in the display. I've used it once and I wan't happy with it. Adjusting the monitor's settings won't have any effect on improving the quality. Best bet is to use DVI connectivity, as when I changed to it after finding a spare DVI cable from my former workplace, that had like 110% improvement from HDMI.

Some monitors are affordable nowadays. What size are you looking into, if you're going to get one?

Ive manged to get both monitors on duplicate mode or extended desktop (without artifacts) but right now my widescreen display is stuck on 1024x768 (native of my second display non-HDMI) and If I try to switch to my native 1680x1050 the widescreen display goes to sleep

What you mean by go to sleep? Doesn't it wake up again after getting out of duplicated mode?

It goes into sleep mode if I try to switch to 1680x1050 and only comes back if I go back into duplicate mode which then the monitor goes into 1024x768

Did you try to select other inputs the come back to it? Usually that'll get it to wake up.