Apple 30" Cinema Display on Windows PC

[Macshroomer]

Hi there,

I want to give my wife my old 30" Cinema display for use on her work laptop. The Windows based laptop is a HP Z Book Studio G3 with a NVIDIA Quadro M1000M 4GB. Native resolution is 1920 x 1080 but the specs say it will support 5120 X 2880. The dock she is using has two display port sockets, two HDMI and one USB-C / TB3.

We tried using the display this afternoon with a DVI-D to Displayport adapter and could only get 1280x800 which can happen if using single link DVI. Before I return it and get a DVI-I to DisplayPort adapter I am wondering if it might not be better to try DVI-D ( or DVI-I ) to HDMI? I did find this article so it made me wonder about DVI-D vs DVI-I.

I'd sell the monitor and get her a dedicated one but these 30" ACD's fetch hardly anything these days and are always risky to ship.

Any suggestions in getting this to work properly?....she could sure use a boost in screen space.

 

[Tozovac]

No answer? I’d like to know too.

 

[venom600]

The 30" display isn't regular DVI. It needs Dual Link DVI. Try something like this https://www.amazon.com/Active-Adapt...jbGlja1JlZGlyZWN0JmRvTm90TG9nQ2xpY2s9dHJ1ZQ==

 

[Tozovac]

Nice. I keep looking for a solution to use my work laptop which has only VGA & HDMI ports.

HDMI female port on Toshiba Tecra A50 —> ?? —> ACD’s dual link DVI male cable end.