That's why a passive DVI to VGA adapter worked in the past.Īlas, HDMI is fully digital it has no analog signal. The "standard" kind of DVI (in the sense that it's the kind used on Apple's DVI connectors in the past) is called DVI-I (integrated), meaning it integrates both digital and analog signals. It's compatible with DVI displays, but it lacks the analog VGA signals, which are absent from the HDMI connector. The kind of DVI signal that you get on the end of the Apple-supplied HDMI to DVI adapter is DVI-D (digital only). Apple's Mini DisplayPort to VGA adapter is all that's necessary to connect a VGA monitor to the Mac Mini via the Thunderbolt port:Īs it turns out, there really ARE different kinds of DVI. Thunderbolt is backwards-compatible with Mini DisplayPort. Rather, the Thunderbolt port is the way to go if you need to connect a VGA monitor. In case anyone else has the same question, the solution doesn't lie with the HDMI port at all. And if DVI converts to VGA (which it does.I've done it many times), how can the + path not work?Īre there "different kinds" of DVI signals - namely, the kind that can be converted to VGA, and another kind that can't be converted to VGA? If Apple's HDMI to DVI adapter works then it should just provide DVI at the DVI end of the adapter. I don't know enough about it to say whether it's workable, but something doesn't add up. I've read that some folks have had difficulty connecting VGA monitors to the Mac Mini - something about the HDMI signal not accurately translating to VGA with passive adapters. Unless I'm missing something (definitely possible), it would seem that the most direct method of connecting the monitor would be to use a DVI (M) to VGA (F) adapter plug the DVI side into the Apple-supplied HDMI to DVI adapter, and then use the VGA side of the adapter to connect the monitor. I assume that the DVI side of the adapter is a standard DVI (F) female connector, which will accept a standard DVI (M) male connector. The Mac Mini comes with an "HDMI to DVI adapter" (Apple's description), but I can't find any other information about that adapter on the Mac Mini description pages, nor can I find any photos of the adapter. I'm replacing the old iMac with a new Mac Mini, which has only Thunderbolt and HDMI connectors available. I'm currently using it with an old iMac G4 (Gumdrop) via a mini-display to VGA adapter cable. I also got me a combo PCI USB 2 and Firewire card built by Sunix for ~ 40 euros that works well, and a Sonnet Ultra ATA 133 PCI controller to hook up any hard disk or optical drive that i want.I have a perfectly good LCD monitor that has a VGA connector on its input cable. XpostFacto brings up a dialog when you boot your machine and lets you choose which of the two operating systems you want to initiate.
#Quadra 650 mac vga adapter software#
That software allows you to use any graphics card you used with the 9 system under the same machine. Both in 9.2.2 and in OSX under XpostFacto. Downloaded the equivalent Mac version BIOS for it, flashed the card with it, and have since been running swell with it.
#Quadra 650 mac vga adapter Pc#
What I did, since my 12-inch Apple monitor isn't anything to shout about, is this: I got a PCI Voo16MB graphics card PC version. They are the same ones that offer the XpostFacto software for use with the newer processors.Īnd since you mentioned the VGA adaptor, if you can use the ebay, you'll find one very easily.
There's a company named Other World Computing that sells a lot of Mac hardware, and that's where i got my accelerator from.
These machines (pre-G3 beige models) were not officially supported by Apple for OSX. As of the 7300 though, right after i got the G3 accelerator, I used XpostFacto to make it work with OSX. I haven't experimented much with the 7100 due to its NUBUS configuration, but i still use it for its ProTools card. Got an Mhz, and a originally, add-on accelerator now. especially since one used to be a teacher workstation with composite video out jacks). I got a beige G3 (mmm, I wish I had the adapter that let you hook it up to a VGA monitor, though), and two Power Mac 5500's (utter due to insufficient RAM, craptastic processor, no USB, and lack of OS8.6 discs I'm going to see what I can do with Linux on them. Anyone got a Mac that can't do OS X (given that it's working)? Or one that runs OS9 and OSX side by side?
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