Radeon HD 6670 DVI to VGA not working

[MaizeMan112]

I'm having any issue with my Radeon HD 6670 not giving any output thru my DVI, I'm trying to run dual monitors and both only have a VGA Input, VGA to VGA works fine and if I use the HDMI to my Xbox monitor it works buy no look with the DVI-VGA converter, Running Windows 8 and don't see any setting in Catalyst Control Center. Thanks

 

[bloc97]

You cannot run DVI-A and VGA at the same time on the HD 6670, since it only has one RAMDAC, unfortunately, you will have to buy an Active DVI-D or HDMI to VGA converter, or you just find a screen that supports DVI-D.

DVI-A stands for DVI-Analogue, it is a backward compatible signal that is the same as VGA, so it is basically VGA signal, but on a DVI connector.
DVI-D stands for DVI-Digital, it is pure digital signal on the DVI connector.

A Passive converter is just basically a cable that puts the pins differently where it "should work".
An Active converter is really converting the signal, but they cost much more $.

Be sure that it is DVI-D, not A.

Hope it helps!,
-Bloc97

 

[abigailcable133]

What you need is an active DVI-D to VGA Converter. These cheap adapters don't do digital to analog video signal conversion. I would recommend checking Part # SCA-DVI-ANA-UN.