I'm almost at my wit's end with Dell Chat Support, and I would appreciate any help the forum can give me.

 

I have an NVIDIA GeForce FX-5200 graphics adapter which came with my Dell 8300 (XP) PC.  I recently bought a Princeton VL1717 LCD monitor with a DVI-D interface, and tried to connect it to the DVI-I connector on the NVIDIA board using the DVI-D to DVI-D cable that came with the monitor.  The result is a blank screen.  I've tried the latest drivers from both Dell and NVIDIA (they're diffferent)with the same result.  I replaced the DVD-D to DVD-D cable, again with the same result.

 

The analog interface works OK.

 

Dell Chat support told me that I should interface the LCD display to the TV Out connector on the Graphics Adaper using a "dongle" connector, and that would fix the problem, and that my problem was trying to use the DVI-D cable on the DVI-I connector.  From what I've read elsewhere, I think this is not right.

 

Any commends and/or suggestions would be appreciated.