G5 dvi to vga adapter not working

DVI to VGA adapter not working with my G5 Dual 2.3 GHz Power PC. I am trying to use a VGA Monitor but can not get a signal. I also am using a Dell with a DVI Input and that works fine using a DVI Cable from my G5 to the Dell u2410.

Bad adapter?
The G5 ports are DVI-I. Any good DVI-I to VGA adapter should be fine.

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Hello -
I just purchased a new Mini DVI to VGA adapter to use with my Mac Book. The day I bought it I plugged it in and worked great! Now after disconnecting it and reconnecting back to my Mac Book things are not so good. When I hook everything up to each other the monitor shows "no signal". Using Systems Preferences/Detect Display does not help at all. Am I missing something obvious here? I'm a new Mac junkie.

Here is an Apple article on the subject of having no video on an external monitor. It's written about the Mac mini, but it applies equally to any other Mac.
http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=301345
And here is another Apple article that is more generalized and with fewer suggestions, though it might be a good place to start from. Good luck.
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1573

Dvi to vga converter not working anywhere

Hi guys, recently my lcd screen went completely black, the macbook pro (from 2007) still turns on and still makes sounds, but the screen is completely black. i need to save important info so i used the dvi to vga adapter (not the mini one but the one i got with it in 07) and i tried it on 2 old moniters, and 2 new lcd monitors. none of them work, i am very concerned. the 2 moniters just stayed black, and the 2 lcds said "no signal, going to sleep". guys what's going on, please help me

do you still hear the chime? try the smc reset - http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1411
& the PRAM: http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1379
if your screen is still black, then your video card has likely failed, so you won't see a display at all.
to recover data, boot the machine holding T. once it chimes, hold it for about a minute or so. now plug the mac into another via firewire cable. if it's another intel mac, you should be able to boot from yours, restart the 2nd mac holding OPTION, select your drive when it's listed & press return. you should then be able to reover files, export contacts, bookmarks, etc. to another drive or to DVDs.

Thunderbolt to VGA Adapter not working with SMART board all of a sudden?

I was wondering if anyone had any suggestions on getting my classroom's (I'm student teaching) SMART board connected to my macbook pro (13 in). Two days ago I tested the setup I had, Mini-DVI to VGA adapter, Mac OS X SMART software suite and it worked flawlessly. Today I try the setup and although the SMART board recognizes my macbook via usb, the projector does not display anything. System preferences does not even recognize the projector as an external monitor. When I plug in my Mini-DVI to VGA adapter (already attached to the VGA cord from the SB) the screen flashes black and goes back to normal. Official work from SMART technologies is there is no supported adapters for connecting a macbook to a SB but I have seen numerous threads about this setup working and like I said it was previously working fine. Any suggestions on what to try next? I was thinking of dual booting to an older version of OS X. Thanks.
Specs:
MacBook Pro 13 in
2.4 GHz Intel Core 2 Duo
4 GB 1067 MHz DDR3
10.9.1

If your laptop is not connected to power (i.e., plugged in to a wall), try plugging it in. It is not uncommon for a laptop to send the VGA signal out with less power when it is on battery power. I've seen this fix this problem, at least, dozens of times.
Try connecting the VGA cable to your adapter while the smart board display is on THEN plug the adapter in to your computer.
Also, try connecting the VGA+Adapter to your mac before booting it (or connect the macbook to the vga cable and then reboot the macbook). I've seen this work with macbooks using vga on projectors (or other external displays running through longer cables or crestron/extron/whatever switching equipment) many many times too.
If these fail, get your campus AV (or IT) people involved. We have often found that a damaged cable or long run needing amplification will work with some computers but not with others. It could be that the cable running from the smart board is somewhat sketchy.
Also, have you attempted to connect your macbook to any other display since starting to have the issue? A bad dongle (dp to vga adapter) isn't rare. I have a bad one sitting on my desk at this very moment.
One last thing you can try, this works for some:
Shut of the mac
Connect it to the smart board (i.e, connect the cables)
Turn on the mac and then close the lid
This *may* boot the computer on the external dispaly (smart board)
Open the lid before it comes to the login screen.
Hopefully one of these suggestions helps.

Dock to VGA Adapter Not Working

I just bought this device with great excitement only to now be seething with anger! I hope I'm doing something wrong and someone else has experienced this, overcome and now able to help me. I do not see an exact match in past posts on this topic.
Basically the device does not appear to work. I have so far tried with an HP LCD monitor and also an Acto projector: both do not detect a signal from the device. This was with Keynote and Goodreader (latest version with VGA support). I've tried re-powering, removing the cable putting back, landscape/ portrait orientation etc etc.
Is it that this device only works with specific VGA devices?
Any pointers greatly appreciated. Thank you.

Don't be angry podpad.... But I know what you mean! It would appear the VGA adapter only works in certain apps - those written to use it. The vanilla iPad only projects in keynote - when you 'play' the presentation and non DRM protected video... Yes irritating. However, I've seen several new apps come up that do support it - and a few upgrades now include it... We just have to wait.
Check out goodreader (as previously mentioned) for documents - PDF etc and Webshow (only 59p) for showing web pages.
The rest we'll have to wait for but perhaps we can keep this thread going with apps that support it and what they support!
If it's worth it... I thought it would simply display the iPad screen in everything... I was a bit peeved it didn't!

VGA Adapter Not Working in Windows 7 (64 bit)

I was running Win7 (64 bit) through bootcamp and could not get the VGA adapter to work. I've tested it and it worked fine while under OS X. In Windows 7, it could detect the secondary display, but my monitor no has signal. I was re-install windows, but no work anytime. Anyone else encountered this issue and have a fix?
I have a early 2011 13" Macbook pro - 2.3 GHz/4GB RAM

But I have it worked fine a week ago! I think that stopped working after firmware update...

DVI to Video Adapter Not Working...

Hi,
I bought this thingy to view video from my Dual 2 Ghz PowerPC G5 on a Panasonic HDTV, using one of its s-video inputs. The video is blank when I switch to that input. I tried using the "Detect Displays" in the Displays preference panel. I do get a picture, but it's heavily distorted no matter what resolution I've tried - it's treated as a VGA display. Composite output from the adapter does not work at all.
The video card is a NVIDIA GeForce 6600LE (came with the computer - two DVI outputs). Apple claims this adapter works on Power Mac G5 with DVI port, but I don't think it does. I also tried hooking it up to a VCR as Apple claims you can do, but no luck there either.
Any advice or alternatives outside of Apple TV appreciated.

Thanks for the technical information. That was very helpful. I took the adapter to my local Apple Store (even tho I didn 't buy it there) and asked them to test it, but they couldn't get to for a couple of hours. But, they gladly gave me a new one to try at no charge.
As before, I plugged it into port 2 of the graphics card with an s-video cable to the tv. No success - except the picture was completely blank on the TV instead of distorted like before. Port 1 was occupied with a VGA monitor. I shut down the computer, TV, and unplugged both ports. I then moved the adapter from port 2 to port 1 and left port 2 open, meaning the VGA monitor wasn't connected to the graphics card at all.
I turned the TV back on and restarted the computer. Lo and behold - after the booting process was done, my desktop appeared on the TV. I shut down the computer again and reconnected the VGA monitor. Ta-dah! - I now have dual monitors.
As a further test, I hooked up the s-video from the adapter to my DVD recorder and recorded the video output from a full screen QT video to its built-in hard drive. That was successful as well. The only problem is that there is a minimal black border around the video since I was not able to pick a resolution for the TV that fills the entire screen. I may need to play with TV's aspect settings to get rid of the border, or crop it out later.
All that's left is to capture the audio and sync it with the video, then output to my format of choice. There's my fair use copy. The quality of the video won't be as good as the original, but what the heck - I'm the only one using it anyway.
Apple should find a way to convince TV and movie studios to sell their stuff on iTunes Store without DRM, at a higher price - like EMI is doing with their music. I would gladly pay the difference just so I could convert and burn my videos to DVD with iDVD or DVD Studio Pro.

Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter not working under Vista (Boot Camp).

Hi there,
I'm facing a very serious issue with MacBook Pro Unibody running MS Vista under Boot Camp: using the Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter to hook a projector is 95% impossible because the only resolution available is 640x480 or sometimes 800x600. No solution came from the adaptor firmware update, still same behavior: connecting the external projector/monitor toggles 640x480 resolution with no more choices available. Just 5% of attempts on selected projectors gave me access to the complete resolutions list.
This is having a serious impact on my job where I do need both Mac&Windows running natively and with external display capabilities, please I'm looking for some feedback from users facing the same problem or someone who had an official answer on this issue from Apple. Do avoid posting about using modded display drivers please: I know they exist but the adaptor should be working with original ones.
I can understand Apple does not support MS Vista issues but this seems to be a hardware/driver one.
I'd like to point out I'm using a clean Vista installation with Apple drivers (from the Leopard DVD) and I've run Vista (same version, same gfx drivers etc) under Boot Camp on my previous MPB (with integrated DVI output+adapter) on hundreds of different projectors with never a single problem.
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Help! DVI to Video adapter not working!

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I bought a brand new DVI to video adapter and it's not working. I plug it in and it shows the start-up screen, but it's split screen and it's in black and white. Then, it goes into the black and white lines, not showing what's coming out of the computer at all. I've tried doing this on three separate TV's and none work. Can anyone help?

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Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter not working

Hello all!
I purchased a new adapter today off amazon. When I plug it in (with or without VGA cable attached) the screen goes blue for a few moments and comes back to my OS Screen, however, none of my external displays are recognized! My projecter, HDTV, 4:3 monitor, and my Dell 16:10 monitor are all undetected. I tried installing the infamous update and it did not want to (said could not detect adapter). I'm assuming it's rather new seeing how it said thunderbolt on the box, but the box came all ripped open.
Other than returning the product, is there any way to try to get this thing working?

Yeah i tried it with another 19" monitor which had the same outcome, there was a signal but no image.
If it's not working with two different monitors, that's a pretty sure sign the adapter is bad.

Lightning to VGA Adapter not working with certain apps

I've recently noticed that I can't watch movies on Netlix any more with my Lightning to VGA Adapter going to an LCD monitor. It works just fine with other apps just not Netflix. Apple says it is a Netflix app problem, and Netlix doesn't want to admit it's anything wrong with their app. Any one else have this problem? Is there a solution?

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Mini DisplayPort auf VGA Adapter not working

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While in Germany I bought a 'Mini DisplayPort auf VGA Adapter' in order to be able to do presentations on a Beamer. This worked fine for a couple of weeks but now has stopped working.
I reinstalled the operating system to be sure that no drivers are missing but still would not work. I borrowed the same adaptor from a friend and his works fine.
How can I have it exchanged please? On top of that I am not sure I can still find the receipt because as it was working fine for the first few weeks I assumed it will remain fine and probably threw this away.
Any help is appreciated!

Thanks CellarDwellr.
I live in Vienna and things are always different here.
We do not have any Apple Store but a company that represents Apple called McShark.
I went to them with the adaptor and they said they needed my MacAir serial number in order to send it in. Never heard that in order to replace a faulty cable one needs also the serial number of the machine, did you?! ...
So I go home again and get the serial numbers of both my iMac and my MacAir.
After waiting on them for over half an hour they say they may still not be able to send it in because I do not have the receipt of the purchase. I asked why they could not have told me this earlier on instead of wasting half my day ... The assistant said, yes they could have, but didn't even apolgoize!
Anyway she needs to verify with her colleague and call me on Monday to tell me if they can send it to Apple or not.
Unbelievable bad service and even worse attitude. If anyone from Apple company reads this my suggestion is to revise their association with this company as it ruins the good brand they have.

Apple DVI to Video Adapter NOT WORKING

So I have this mac pro but no monitor. I went to the apple store and bought the Apple DVI to Video Adapter. I hooked it up and turned the computer on and there's nothing showing up on the screen(TV). Why is this happening? The whole point of this adapter is to not need a monitor.... do i need a monitor to set it up?

Why don't you click on the Apple icon at the top left of the screen.
Select About This Mac. Click on the info about which version of OS X you have - under the Apple icon - click twice to see your serial number. Use it to determine the model of your Mac Pro on Apple's web site. Inform those who would help you what model Mac Pro you have.
Click on More Info...
Select Graphics/Displays.
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