VGA to HDMI or Display Port

[westin1]

I bought an ultra wide monitor with a native resolution of 2560X1080. According to the converters I've tried I need to match the native resolution of the monitor with the VGA and this will only go to 1920X1080. Does anyone know of any converters that will work? It's kind of interesting the opening of windows xp will display where you get the dots going across the screen, but when the desktop trys to display, nothing. Is there any usb solution i can use? Thanks for any and all help.

 

[getochkn]

No, VGA has a max resolution and won't go higher. You need a better video card with HDMI or Displayport to get higher resolutions.

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Well, that's not quite true. VGA isn't limited to a particular resolution, it IS limited by the RAMDAC which does the video driving. Higher frequency RAMDAC == more bandwidth == higher resolution. Usually the maker of the GPU in question will list the maximum dimensions that the connectors are capable of, based on the RAMDAC that they use.

However, in his particular case because the screen was the equivalent of a 'no signal' , I'm betting that his VGA subsystem is not capable of driving a 2560x1080 screen. Putting an adapter on it to convert from VGA to HDMI/DP won't change the fact that the VGA subsystem (due to hardware limitations in it's design) cannot transmit data quickly enough to draw the monitor.

So - as mentioned, you'll have to get a better graphics card, one that supports HDMI/DP. Another possibility could be Dual-Link DVI, but you'd have to check and see if your GPU and monitor both support it. Dual-Link DVI has a max resolution of 2560x1600 @ 60hz.