could anyone tell me the name of the port my pc has.

it is a video port becasue i have seen it on projectors at school.

it is pretty much a rectangle with lots of square holes for pins. im not sure what this is but i was wondering if this could me used for a dual monitor set up

thanks

Well let's see what I can do for you.

You said that is was "pretty much a rectangle" so I will assume its a DB style connector. DB just means it looks like a "D" when the connector is looked at from the side. You also said that it has "lots of square holes for pins" which I will again assume is a female connector. If you don't know the difference between male and female connectors, just Google it, I don't really like going into a sex-ed class here.

This leaves us with only two common connectors; video and game port. Both the video and game ports have 15 pins but the video is in a high density form factor (the pins are closer together) Refer to http://www.answers.com/main/ntquery;jsessi...22_1&sbid=lc02a for pictures and descriptions.

Most likely if the second port in question is not located on the same card as your primiary video cable then it is a game port. To make sure simply unplug your video cable and try to put it in the questionable port. If it does not fit then you can't get video.

Also:
http://www.answers.com/topic/game-port
http://www.ctips.com/game.html
http://www.computerhope.com/help/video.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/help/parallel.htm
http://www.computerhope.com/help/serial.htm

I would also check to see if your motherboard has onboard graphics (I am assuming this port is attached to the m/b) if this is the case you may not be able to run it in tandem with your graphics card (if u have one)

If it is on the graphics card check the make of card and google it this will tell you all the specs that particular card has. (you can find the make of card in your hardware profile through the properties of my computer)

ok thanks so far. sorry my description was so vauge. im better at drawing but its pretty well impossible to draw it in ac art!

it is on the same card as the port for my monitor. there is also an s-video port on there too.

the port is not a 'normal' computer style port, not like the ones on that link, it is very square edged with three rows of eight square pin holes and 3 longer pins fanning out of one end. when i say square esged i mean a right angle.

so if its on my video card do you think it can cope with dual monitors? yay

I think it's either a DVI or VGA port.

DVI is short for Digital Visual Interface, a digital interface standard created by the Digital Display Working Group to convert analog signals into digital signals to accommodate both analog and digital monitors. Data is transmitted using the transition minimized differential signaling (TMDS) protocol, providing a digital signal from the PC's graphics subsystem to the display. The standard specifies a single plug and connector that encompass both the new digital and legacy VGA interfaces, as well as a digital-only plug connector. DVI handles bandwidths in excess of 160 MHz and thus supports UXGA and HDTV with a single set of links. Higher resolutions can be supported with a dual set of links. This is the much newer ones.

VGA is an abbreviation of video graphics array, a graphics display system for PCs developed by IBM. VGA has become one of the de facto standards for PCs. In text mode, VGA systems provide a resolution of 720 by 400 pixels. In graphics mode, the resolution is either 640 by 480 (with 16 colors) or 320 by 200 (with 256 colors). The total palette of colors is 262,144.

A DVI port looks like this :
http://www.watch.impress.co.jp/av/docs/20010627/dvi.jpg
It is digital

A VGA port looks like this :
http://www.refurbished-laptops.biz/images/vga-photo-big.jpg
It is analog

sorry again not any of them but i think it is digital

here is a horrible picture i drew. so sorry but its late.

here

thanks again