HDMI to DVI-D connection

[r1ley_h]

I just received some male DVI-D to female HDMI adapter so I can hook my laptop up to my monitor via DVI rather than VGA. I was also planning on using two of these connectors to run between the same monitor and my gpu once I complete my desktop. The DVI connection was connected to the monitor and the HDMI cable was plugged into the adapter. I plugged my laptop in through the HDMI connection and the monitor didn't display anything. Is there something that I missed about these connections? Could it be just the monitor? (It is an older 16:10 monitor that I plan to upgrade eventually.) I am running Windows 10. Any help is appreciated. Thanks!

[Mira Yurizaki]

Does Windows even detect a second monitor?

[emosun]

I'm confused as to what order you have all these adapters and cables in and what the laptop actually uses.

 

[Guest]

Does your (older) monitor have "source selections"? My ancient square Samsung SyncMaster 940ux has them... If I have it stuck on VGA, it won't display anything when I go to my HDMI signal input...

EDIT: If I have the source in my monitor set to VGA signal, while I provide HDMI signal, it won't display anything. (except the menu's in the monitor itself)

[r1ley_h]

15 minutes ago, M.Yurizaki said:

Does Windows even detect a second monitor?

My laptop screen goes black because I normally use the monitor as a primary display. I changed it back using dsub and tried again with dvi with no success. I cannot tell if it does or not.

[r1ley_h]

16 minutes ago, emosun said:

I'm confused as to what order you have all these adapters and cables in and what the laptop actually uses.

 

Right now it is from the monitor to the laptop: DVI-D to HDMI, HDMI cable to laptop.

[r1ley_h]

16 minutes ago, Dutch-stoner said:

Does your (older) monitor have "source selections"? My ancient square Samsung SyncMaster 940ux has them... If I have it stuck on VGA, it won't display anything when I go to my HDMI signal input...

There is a button where I can change the source but it gets me the same screen when I am trying to use DVI. 

[Guest]

Have you tryed all sources? If not, try to follow suggestions others gave you + make sure windows detects the connected screen.

[emosun]

The cable you bought is for converting dvi to hdmi , you're trying to use it backwards and that's not really going to work out.

26 minutes ago, r1ley_h said:

so I can hook my laptop up to my monitor via DVI rather than VGA.

if the monitor works with vga then why are you changing it?

[r1ley_h]

Just now, Dutch-stoner said:

Have you tryed all sources? If not, try to follow suggestions others gave you + make sure windows detects the connected screen.

I did try all sources that I have on my monitor and it doesn't seem to matter. It could be a dud dvi or something. I really am not good with this type of stuff.

[r1ley_h]

1 minute ago, emosun said:

The cable you bought is for converting dvi to hdmi , you're trying to use it backwards and that's not really going to work out.

if the monitor works with vga then why are you changing it?

That makes sense now actually. I can see the thought process. My GPU has HDMI and DVI ports on it and I figured I could use the HDMI out on my GPU and send it to the monitor with one of these connections. Now that you have put it that way it makes sense. I was using my laptop to test the theory. I was also thinking of using two adapters going from both DVI ports but that might not work either. I should probably just get a monitor that supports HDMI.

[emosun]

No you need to be using active adapters instead of passive ones. It is possible to convert hdmi to pretty much anything provided it's an active adapter.

[r1ley_h]

What do those look like? Do I just search active adapter for hdmi to DVI?