Setting up Dual-Monitors, 2nd display power cord has the wrong connector.

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Setting up Dual-Monitors, 2nd display power cord has the wrong connector.

In trying to mount a dual monitor setup on my G5 I encountered a really dumb problem. I have a dual video card but where or how can I plug in the second monitor to get power to it? The monitor in question is a 17" studio display graphite. From what i can see, the power cord from the monitor can only be plugged into the power source on the G4 graphite. Can anyone help?

G5 powermac, Mac OS X (10.4.10)

Posted on Oct 13, 2007 5:44 PM

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japamac

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Oct 28, 2010 11:48 AM in response to Tyler_Cannon

Hi-

Welcome to Discussions!

If you have a power cord for a G4 tower, you can connect the display power to the tower cord. Insert the tower cord female into the sheathed male of the display, and then plug into a regular receptacle.

The display doesn't have to be plugged directly to the tower, so using a tower cord to allow connection to a regular recep is no problem.

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Oct 28, 2010 11:48 AM in response to Tyler_Cannon

If the display uses ADC <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:AppleDisplayConnector.jpg>
you will need a DVI to ADC adapter
<http://docs.info.apple.com/article.html?artnum=75285>
to connect it to a DVI port <http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Image:DVI ConnectorPinout.svg>.

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Oct 28, 2010 11:48 AM in response to Tyler_Cannon

thanks Japamac....i had dumbly overlooked that... Oh and Malcolm, I had no problem with the conversion, it was for power the prob. Thanks guys..

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