DVI Problems

[Juiposa]

I bought a new computer and monitor in June. My video card only outputs to DVI and HDMI, and I only had a regular analog monitor cable. So for the last while I've just been using that with a DVI adapter into the GPU's female end. I got around to getting a proper DVI cable today, and went to plug it into both to find a problem.

To begin, my DVI is one with only the horizontal bar, not the cross, this is just the best picture I could find.

My computer's DVI port looks like the above, save the bar instead of cross. DVI cable I bought fits no problem. When going to plug it into my monitor though; my monitor's female end is missing C1, C2, C3 and C4. The cable I bought has the prongs for these slots on both ends.

Is there adapters out there to solve this? Or is the importance of those prongs negligible and can I just clip them?

Help plox, this was and expensive damn cable.

 

[Grayfox]

You have a DVI-D

You will need a DVI-D cable.

The cables in question are not that expensive in tech taxed Australia so I can't see them being that expensive in Canada.

 

[Sharky.]

Sounds like you bought a DVI-I cable when you needed a DVI-D - -D has no C1-4 pins whereas -I uses C1-4 for analog transmission. You wouldn't be able to snip the pins off either as the bar in a male -I connector is longer than the bar in a female -D, which is what your monitor has. Off the top of my head every (most) graphics card with a DVI connector uses/supports -I, which is why the cable you bought fits the computer fine but not the monitor.