View Sonic Monitor and DVI Cable

My cousin recently gave me a 2009 Mac Pro system and a View Sonic monitor, both of which were no longer being used at his workplace. The Mac Pro is working just fine and I have my old 23" Cinema Display from my Dual 2.7 G5 now hooked up to the Mac Pro.
I picked up a Gigaware 6-foot DVI-D Dual Link cable from Radio Shack and showed the guy there a picture of the DVI connector from the video card on my G5. He said that cable would work just fine. This morning, when I hooked the cable up to the View Sonic monitor and my G5, there's no picture. I tried disconnecting and reconnecting, rebooting, but nothing is working. The monitor does go from displaying an amber light before the computer is switched on to displaying a green light after it's been turned on, but yet there's no picture.
I also tried hooking the monitor up to my Mac Pro, but it doesn't display a picture there either. Of course, I was in the midst of copying some items between drives and couldn't reboot at that moment to see if that would change things.
It'd probably be more helpful if I posted exactly what kind of monitor it is, which I'll do once I get home.
One thing I have noticed is that the male DVI connector coming off the back of my 23" Cinema Display has less connector pins than the DVI cable I bought at Radio Shack.
Here's a link to what I bought from Radio Shack. Aside from it being overpriced, is it the right cable?

that cable would work just fine
Correct. You have bought the high-end Dual-Link cable when a Single-Link would do. It will work fine anyway.
The Mac requires that a new display respond to its query. It must reply with both its Name and its Capabilities. The query will be sent:
a) When the Mac Starts up
b) when a cable is attached at the Mac End
c) when the (Detect Displays) button is clicked in System Preferences > Displays
The absolute simplest thing your Mac can do is Startup Manager, aka Alt/Option Boot. Hold down the alt/Option key as your Mac starts up, and it should draw a gray or blue screen, then slowly add an Icon as each potentially-bootable Volume is found (this may take several minutes).

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