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Question

ATI Radeon HD6450 DVI and VGA no longer work

by 1337B337 Feb 24, 2014 3:18AM PST

Hi everyone, sorry for the long post.

I have an ATI Radeon HD6450 installed in my Dell Dimension E521.

I frequently plug my monitor into a different PC for different uses.

One night, I accidentally unplugged the entire VGA port (the HD6450 has the port connected to a ribbon cable, then to a different 6 or 8 pin female connector,) from the card.

Since then, neither my VGA nor DVI ports work, but the HDMI port works fine, (tested it on my parents HDMI compatible monitor.)

Since my monitor doesn't support HDMI, I'm stuck with a much older card.

This might just be the monitor detecting that it's plugged in, but the test image that comes up on my monitor when it isn't plugged into a port disappears when I plug it into the VGA port on my card.

So, I don't know if that's an indicator that the card still works via VGA and DVI.

I need to know if the ports are done for good, or if there's a way to fix it.

Thanks in advance.

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Clarification Request

Since many video cards have VGA ports.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 24, 2014 4:27AM PST

As a PC or electronics tech you could scavenge a VGA port from other older dead cards?

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Other 2 cards

by 1337B337 Feb 24, 2014 8:00AM PST

See, the other 2 video cards I have are a DVI and S-Video card that's dead, and the card I'm using isn't built like the Radeon, so I can't swap out the ports, I'm not extremely tech savvy.

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In that case, go shopping.

by r. proffitt Forum moderator Feb 24, 2014 8:06AM PST

Or ask if any of your friends solder.
Bob

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