My monitor does not seem to support DVI inputs...

[CreedForce]

I have a GTX 970. I was away for four months. By the time I got back home, we had shifted cities. I noticed that my computer was running on the Intel HD Graphics of my i5-4690K. I then realized that while we were shifting homes, we left the old monitor behind and along with that the VGA to DVI-D adapter, and came here and hooked up to a newer, but worse monitor with a VGA cable. This is the reason why my GTX 970 was not enabled, though it was detected. I then bought a new VGA to DVI-D and connected the monitor to the CPU using it. The monitor did not respond.
I think that the monitor does not support DVI input(it doesn't have a DVI port either). I have looked for source changing options in the OSD but there are none.

Does this mean that I will simply have to get a new monitor?

My Specs -
8 GB Corsair Vengeance RAM
GTX 970
i5-4690K
Monitor - HP LE1851w (It's a very bad monitor)
Motherboard - Gigabyte GA-Z97M-D3H

 

[pm4]

What you need is not DVI-D to VGA but DVI-I to VGA.
DVI-I got also analog signal which is needed for VGA. Your card should have DVI-I port, but to be sure check please before buying any new adapter.

If you confirm that you got DVI-I port on your card and get DVI-I to VGA it should work again.

Edit:
By specification on geforce.com GTX 970 should have these outputs:
- Dual Link DVI-I
- HDMI 2.0
- 3x DisplayPort 1.2

but rather check yourself to be sure.

 

[CreedForce]

What you need is not DVI-D to VGA but DVI-I to VGA.
DVI-I got also analog signal which is needed for VGA. Your card should have DVI-I port, but to be sure check please before buying any new adapter.

If you confirm that you got DVI-I port on your card and get DVI-I to VGA it should work again.

Edit:
By specification on geforce.com GTX 970 should have these outputs:
- Dual Link DVI-I
- HDMI 2.0
- 3x DisplayPort 1.2

but rather check yourself to be sure.

Thanks!! Haven't tried it yet, but that should be it.
Thing is, when I realized that I need a DVI adapter, I didn't know much about them, I just remembered seeing it there plugged in when everything was ok.
So, when I looked for the port, the one right next to the VGA one happened to be a DVI-D one, as I came to know after later research.
When I read your answer, I checked and found that my port is not a DVI-I but a DVI-D. I looked around a bit more and found the DVI-I port under the USB ports at the back. I just didn't look around properly!!
Thanks again!

 

[pm4]

I assume that DVI-D and VGA you are talking about are on your motherboard as GTX 970 should not have VGA port.

To use your GTX 970, you need to plug cable to your GPU output and not to motherboard. If you plug it to motherboard it will be using integrated GPU on processor or motherboard and not GTX 970 at all.

 

[CreedForce]

I assume that DVI-D and VGA you are talking about are on your motherboard as GTX 970 should not have VGA port.

To use your GTX 970, you need to plug cable to your GPU output and not to motherboard. If you plug it to motherboard it will be using integrated GPU on processor or motherboard and not GTX 970 at all.

Yes, I know, I get that..
What I'm trying to say is that I did not see the GPU output. I only saw two ports where the motherboard output was and assumed that the other one must be the GPU one.
As I said, I wasn't being very observant.

Thanks.