Uncreative Labs

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

I needed to upgrade my wife's pc with a better video card.. I put a ATI in and was not able to get the driver working. So I gave up and went out to buy another.
when this cards arrived, I looked at it and it had a strange connector ( not a db15-vga)
a rectanmglar set of pins and a dvi connector below it.
I am in the process of negotiating with ebay and the seller is not answering at all.
Not a lot of money, but I should have been suspicios
I soon will have four of these unusable gems.
searching on the description yields a lot of hits
apparently these cards are for sale everythere.
not only on ebay
It may be either a very new style or an Apple card.

Joined: 02 Oct 2004 Posts: 594 Location: Western NC

Likely if it's a newer card, it's HDMI/DVI output. Don't know if there's an adapter to use with standard 15-pin VGA or not (lots of machines now don't even have standard VGA)...

Joined: 10 May 2008 Posts: 62

There are DVI-A to VGA adapter plugs you can purchase. They are not very expensive. Usually when you buy new video cards that have DVI only plugs there is an adapter in the box. If not you can always buy one separately. Not all DVI cards will work with Analog VGA. Check your card's documentation to see if it supports analog output.

Joined: 03 Feb 2006 Posts: 488 Location: pennsylvanai

I purchased 4 adapters for $1.35 each to match the cards.
today I tried all four and non seem to turn the monitor BLUE, meaning they don't work.
I also tried all the recent video cards pci and agp and one more was dead
these are RFE boards sold cheaply.
and they were dead as far as I can tell.

I have one other card with that connector and it needs a fan. I will try it later.

MY mb has a button that releases the card and the point is beveled so the card snaps in the connector
past that rear Tongue with a slot.