s-vid female to vga male

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    Mailyfesu Member

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    Is it possible? I have an ati radeon 9200 and have a vga, a s-vid, and some other video out device. im not sure how i could have two monitors other than adding a tv monitor.. Im not going to go out and buy a new gfx card or a tv anytime soon. so im wondering how i can connect another lcd monitor onto my computer. i was thinking about getting one of these.

    http://www.pccables.com/70717.htm

    and get a female to female connector to the vga out and a male to male on the s-video side. but i dont know if it will work since they dont sell any of those types of svideo output to vga connectors. If they do, i cant find any online.. if anyone can direct me on this, it would be great.
     
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    Hi Mailyfesu,
    Often these videoboards will have both a regular VGA (analog RGB) and a Digital Link (DVI) connector.
    The DVI is roughly similar in size & shape but it's white, at least it is white on my Radeon.
    There is an adapter to convert DVI to VGA - it is often included as an accessory with the video board, in case you wish to connect two regular monitors. You can buy one, they're inexpensive.
    Using the TV-out has its own unique challenges, and you may find you can run only 1 or the other but not both, and your PC refresh will become 60Hz (I get a headache just thinking about it ;^) so that would be your last resort,
    Regards
     
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    oh. sorry for not making it clear. its not a dvi port. its a yellow tvout jack... haha. so i cant get a dvi connector.
     
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    can anyone help?
     
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    that yellow connector is for a composit monitor or a tv only.
     
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    umm. ones a svideo out. and ones a yellow video out.. so i have 3 outputs
     
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    um ok..

    sorry for double posting, but here is the basic image of it.

    i want to connect the svid onto a computer monitor.

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    Why not? Yours is junk ($39 = disposable).
    You say you have 2 LCD monitors to hookup? They are not inexpensive.
    Your vidcard is (and, it will not connect 2 displays unless one of them is a television).
    http://www.pccanada.com/viewitem.asp?id=2125
    Here is an inexpensive 128MB Asus GeForce ($55 bucks Canadian!) that will connect your 2 monitors.
    You can easily spend $10 or $20 bucks buying little adapters & cables trying to hookup, just not worth it.
    The FX5200 is not enough for most folks, but you will think you've gone to heaven :^)
    L8R
     
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