ATI Rage 128 Pro

No.

If you're referring to the 23" Apple Cinema (LCD) Display, it requires a DVI output on the graphics card. The ATI Rage 128 Pro card that shipped in some G4 DA models has VGA and ADC ports. You'll need to upgrade to a graphics card having a DVI port and one that's capable of supporting the Cinema Display's 1920x1200 @ 60Hz native resolution.

Why?

Simply because it doesn't have the power to, DVI or not..

It goes black because the Rage does not support the 23" Apple Cinema Display.

Please accept this fact. What ever you do, the Rage 128 Pro *will not* drive the 23" ACD.

It will support up to a 19" LCD monitor.

It's easy for me to accept. When I was a kid I worked on Muntz tv's. 🙂

😀

Can VGA power my apple lcd

No. VGA is analog. Apple LCD monitors are digital only. Depending on the model, either DVI or ADC is needed.

Why take a Seurat painting, smear it up some to make it look like a da Vinci? Japamac is right. Digital is digital and analog is analog. Don't try to fit a square peg in a round hole even though you can round the corners to do so.

A DVI to VGA just extracts the Analog signals (from that cross-bar thing at the end of the connector and the pins around it). It doesn't convert anything, and it doesn't work the other direction.

You would need a VGA to DVI converter (over US$300) which has all the VRAM and logic of a Display card. Much simpler just to get a fast enough display card with enough VRAM to do the job in the first place.

Both good engineering advise and good economic advise. Thanks, Grant.