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Possible to swap cable on ATD for mDP?

rawweb

rawweb

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Has anyone over the years ever reported if it’s possible to swap the thunderbolt cable inside the Apple Thunderbolt Display for a mini displayport cable and use this thing with traditional video cards? Not sure if the logicboard/thunderbolt controller will understand the displayport signal without Tb?

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rawweb said:
Has anyone over the years ever reported if it’s possible to swap the thunderbolt cable inside the Apple Thunderbolt Display for a mini displayport cable and use this thing with traditional video cards? Not sure if the logicboard/thunderbolt controller will understand the displayport signal without Tb?

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Is that the Thunderbolt input? You need to find the Thunderbolt controller where the DisplayPort side is generated. Cut that and place a Mini DisplayPort connector there. It's probably not as simple as that. Does the display have any buttons? It probably requires Thunderbolt to power-on etc.
 
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