[geeks] Not-quite DVI video?

[Lionel Peterson]

Dell for a while sold small desktops (win7 era?) that had one big connector that required an adapter cable to breakout two DVI, two VGA or one of each...

Not much help, but that's what it sounds like to me.

Ken

> On Oct 27, 2025, at 01:11, Mouse via geeks <geeks at sunhelp.org> wrote:
> 
> I've got an HP machine which has a video card marked with the HP logo
> and "A4977A Vis EG-PCI".  I'd like to use it - but the video connector
> is odd.  It loooks like DVI at first blush, but it's not; the shell is
> longer than a DVI connector.  It looks as though someone took a DVI
> connector and enlarged the 3x8 grid of pins to 3x10.
> 
> Anyone know what this is, and, in particular, what it would take to
> connect it to a non-HP-specific monitor (DVI, VGA, even HDMI or DP if
> need be)?
> 
> I tried replacing the card with a PCI video card from my stock of video
> cards, but I don't get any video out of it, leading me to suspect the
> ROM code is refusing to work with third-party video.
> 
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