I have a laptop (dell inspiron 7537) with an hdmi output and I would like to connect it to a monitor (Samsung PPM42S3Q ) which has only VGA and DVI input.
I bought a dvi to hdmi adapter (hdmi female dvi male) but when I connec laptop to monitor I always get “no signal” that means cable is connected but no signal is sent or recognised by monitor.
First, I suppose cable wasn’t working, so I connect my laptop to another monitor (more modern than the samsung) with the same configuration and everything works like a charm.
After I figure out that cable was working I connect my PC Desktop to the Samsung monitor with the same configuration and everything is working.
I supposed was a graphic card issue, my laptop has and intel integrated graphic card and a Nvidia Geforce Gt 750M , I tried to enable one and disable the other and viceversa but in the end I got always the same result “no signal”.
Could anyone please suggest another configuration or tell me if is possible to get this configuration working?
Best Answer
Connecting HDMI output to DVI input is not straightforward due to HDMI carrying an HDCP-protected signal.
Monitors that don't have an HDMI port are not HDCP-compliant, hence can't display an HDCP-protected digital signal.
As a (legal) workaround you can try an HDMI splitter, those often strip HDCP from the signal, so it can be subsequently converted to DVI.