What adapter for monitor?

Question

My friend here at work just purchased a Dual 2.0 PowerMac G5. She went to hook up her new LCD 19 inch display and the connector supplied with the Xerox monitor and the PowerMac are not correct. Which adapter will she need to connect her monitor to her powermac? If you need more info to answer my question please feel free to ask..thanks

Answer 1

Thank you for the scan. That does help quite a bit (I think).
Here's what I think based on that adapter: The screws on the adapter indicate that it accepts a DVI cable connection on the large end and adapts it to a VGA connection on the small end. You'd screw the monitor cable onto the large end. The small VGA end is the end that would plug into the computer (since the adapter's screws are on that end). This would be used if your monitor has a DVI connection and your computer is older and only has an available VGA connection on its video card.
The adapter that Apple provides is used in the opposite situation. It's for when you've got a DVI connection on the video card, and your monitor only has VGA (e.g. a CRT monitor, or a very cheap LCD).
So, it would appear that the cable that's attached to the monitor is DVI. Like I mentioned above, you'd only need the blue adapter if your computer doesn't have a DVI connection and only has VGA. Your friend's G5 has a DVI connection, so the DVI cable that's connected to the monitor should be connected directly to the port on the G5, without any adapters whatsoever.
I hope this helps. Post back if any of it's unclear.