I am completely stumped as to what do to, none of the vga cables I have work, see the image here - Imgur: The magic of the Internet
Here's your blue one: https://www.amazon.com/Serial-Adapt...ocphy=9052267&hvtargid=pla-397003917010&psc=1
Can't find the right printer cable converter at the moment.
its a GIGABYTE GA-EP41-US3L Motherboard, would a USB to Serial Adapter allow it to connect to my monitor?
which graphics card would be ideal?As stated above, the motherboard has no built-in graphics output of any kind and you cannot get any graphics here without a graphics card which needs to be installed in the PCI-e slot. The graphics card will have display outputs which can then either be used directly or with a converter to VGA, depending on the exact model you get.
Correction. Not only matrix printers, but basically all printers, including good laser ones, till mid-90ies had LPT ports Then USB as superior solution kicked out LPT in next few years, yes. Good riddance BTW.Yup, that's a very old DB-25 port. If you're trying to hook up a dreadful old dot matrix printer, you're in luck. Anything else, not so much. USB quickly killed this off in the late 90s.
OP, GIGABYTE GA-EP41-US3L motherboard does not have built-in video output. It require separate GPU card.
Correction. Not only matrix printers, but basically all printers, including good laser ones, till mid-90ies had LPT ports Then USB as superior solution kicked out LPT in next few years, yes. Good riddance BTW.
My mutual understanding here Dealing with USB peripherals though in first years like till 2002-something was often hit and miss. Damn thing often refused to recognize some connected device or device worked only in particular USB slot. I believe it was because manufacturers blatantly ignored USB specs at first.In fairness, it's been a while and I'm suffering from middle-aged senility!