Question Second monitor can’t 1920x1080

[gunkkeviie]

Hello

At my work we have a computer with 2 screens. Its basicly a dell laptop connected to a dell adapter connected to the screens.

Now,
Monitor 1 (main monitor) works as it should dell laptop - adapter - hdmi - hmdi screen, it runs 1920x1080 no problem

Now second monitor is where the problem is. Its connected in the same way except its with a vga cable to vga and the max resolution is 1440x900.

So we tried hdmi to displayport( hdmi in adapter -dp in monitor) and the screen didnt pop up. So that might have been a faulty cable.

So i was wondering now, is it possible that this is a hardware problem as in vga doesnt support 1920x1080 or a software problem ?

 

[Obakasama]

Can't quite picture how the set up is. But what I can state with confidence is that it sounds like the display output is all digital, but the second monitor requires an analogue input. Somewhere along the connections you'd need an active converter for the signal.