{"id":2114,"date":"2014-04-17T14:19:01","date_gmt":"2014-04-17T22:19:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/?p=2114"},"modified":"2017-10-16T14:11:49","modified_gmt":"2017-10-16T22:11:49","slug":"convert-a-dvi-i-connector-to-dvi-d","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/blog\/convert-a-dvi-i-connector-to-dvi-d\/","title":{"rendered":"Convert a DVI-I connector to DVI-D"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I love my little Raspberry Pi computer, but wasn&#8217;t using it much because it only has HDMI and composite video out. The monitor on my desk doesn&#8217;t have HDMI, so I was looking for an HDMI-to-DVI converter. At the local flea market, I stumbled a lovely little adapter which I got for a dollar. It appeared to have a jack appropriate for an HDMI cable on one side, and the male side of a DVI plug on the other. My plan was to plug this into the monitor, then run a standard HDMI cable to the Raspberry.<\/p>\n<p>But when I got home, I found that the DVI end would not plug into my monitor. I couldn&#8217;t figure out why not, as it looked like there were 24 signal pins on both. Then I noticed that there were actually 4 extra pins on the adapter around the spade contact. The internet said that these were analog pins, so I decided to take a chance and try to convert the adapter to fit into my monitor. Nothing to lose; even if I destroyed the adapter, it was already unusable in its present state.<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2115\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2115\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RemoveAnalogPins.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2115\" title=\"Remove Analog Pins\" alt=\"RemoveAnalogPins\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RemoveAnalogPins.jpg\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RemoveAnalogPins.jpg 640w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RemoveAnalogPins-100x75.jpg 100w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RemoveAnalogPins-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/RemoveAnalogPins-400x300.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2115\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">First, I removed the 4 analog pins around the spade contact. Others on the internet have either ground these down, or cut them off, but I found that I was able to simply pull them out with a needlenose pliers.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure id=\"attachment_2116\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-2116\" style=\"width: 2757px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MachineGroundKey.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\" wp-image-2116\" title=\"Trim down spade contact\" alt=\"MachineGroundKey\" src=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MachineGroundKey.jpg\" width=\"2757\" height=\"2068\" srcset=\"http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MachineGroundKey.jpg 2757w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MachineGroundKey-100x75.jpg 100w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MachineGroundKey-300x225.jpg 300w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MachineGroundKey-1024x768.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/pididu.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/MachineGroundKey-399x300.jpg 399w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2757px) 100vw, 2757px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-2116\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">On the analog version of DVI, the spade contact is slightly wider than on the digital version. In other tutorials, people have simply cut this contact down with a diagonal cutter, but I found it neater to trim it to size with a rotary diamond burr.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Incidentally, it works great!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I love my little Raspberry Pi computer, but wasn&#8217;t using it much because it only has HDMI and composite video out. The monitor on my desk doesn&#8217;t have HDMI, so I was looking for an HDMI-to-DVI converter. At the local flea market, I stumbled a lovely little adapter which I got for a dollar. 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