Rich,
I believe that your Acer monitor has an input selection in the menu.
you need to open the menu using the buttons on the monitor and find the
input secetion in order to choose the DVI input. You should not need to use
a VGA cable alongside or in replacement of your DVI cable.
-Mike
On Mon, Aug 29, 2011 at 3:47 PM, Rich Shepard <[email protected]>wrote:
> My new Acer S201HL DVI-capable monitor arrived today. Naturally, the
> instructions on how to install it are on the enclosed cd-rom which can't be
> read until the monitor is installed and working.
>
> Anyway, I attached the heavy DVI cable I bought at ENU to both the
> monitor
> and the system and turned on the monitor. No signal it kept telling me. So
> I
> tried the DVI cable that came with it. Same result: no signal. As a last
> resort, I used the VGA cable. Signal.
>
> Reading the manual suggests that the vga cable needs to be attached along
> with the dvi cable. Does this make sense? If this is the case, I cannot use
> the heavy ENU cable as its plug is too big to fit the socket with the vga
> plug installed. The Acer dvi cable is thinner with smaller plugs.
>
> Rich
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