Connection Options for DELL 2405FPW

[Martyn365]

Hi, I hope this is the right place for this thread! I'm currantly looking at the 2405W as my almost ultimate screen. If it had an extra D-Sub connection it would be perfect 🙂 As an IT consultant I invariably need to atleast switch between screens for process monitoring purposes or preferably use two screens at once, however the Dell would allow me to do both these things on one screen with no gap.

What I want to do is connect my X850 XT graphics cards primary output directly into the DVI on the back of the screen and the secondary output into the KVM switch allowing me to switch to the smaller res without altering the DVI output I then want to connect the Primary KVM chanel into the D-Sub on the back of the screen and convert one of the alternate inputs on the screen to D-Sub for the secondary KVM chanel.

Is their anything glaringly obvious to anyone preventing me from doing this and what extra hardware would you recomend if it is possible.

 

[cmv]

Edit: Now I get it -- 2405FPW 🙂. Sweet setup -- hopefully someone can answer your question.

 

[Martyn365]

OK. It's been pointed out tat I may not have explained myself properly in my eairlier post, so I'm going to try again.

Firstly my main PC is a high spec machine used for Office, Games and Video so I want to view it with the best quality possible so DVI is the way to go.

But this leaves only one VGA port clear plus composite, componant and s-video.

As an IT consultant I regularly work with six or seven PC's at once mostly installing Windows and setting up the odd SBS 2003 server ready for delvery so I got a Dual Port KVM switch allowing me to work on one PC while channel hopping the others this opperates on two VGA ports.

Working from home I suffer from a lack of space in the office so if I can have one huge screen instead of two 19" ones and increase my video viewing size at the same time that would be sweet!

The only way I can see of doing this would be to convert one of the other inputs to VGA and although I've seen boxes that claim to do this for me in the states I can't find them available in the UK, I'm not against ordering in from oversees but obviously I'd hate to get the wrong thing.

The other half of my question was is it possible to set the output on my X850XT graphics card to two seperate resolutions and switch between the two instead of uing them as dual screen outputs, i.e. First output diectly into the 2405FPW for full screen viewing and second output into KVM for picture by picture viewing and just tell the graphics card to switch ports instead of changing the res of the main output and also allowing me to callibrate for both setups.

 

[jkresh]

almost any card with dvi output with have a dvi-vga adapter which plugs in to the dvi port and allows for a vga cable to be used, this would allow you to plug the two outputs from your x850 into the dvi and vga inputs on the dell (which is a great screen by the way (got mine last week))

 

[Martyn365]

Thanks that solves half my problem but the main question is how do I plug both the VGA outputs from my dual port KVM switch into the screen with the DVI port taken up by my main PC, and which port do I convert (Composite or Component)?

 

[jkresh]

converting to composite would offer terrible quality so you want to use one vga->component, those adapters generaly run around $300 though it may be possible to find ones cheaper (i havent looked in a few years)