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Seeking info on a good adaptor that would facilitate 2 x female vga to 1 x male hdmi

Valeriem

HI all,

Not sure if I am in the right place but I would love a recommendation on what product to use for the above. I have two monitors with male VGA connectors and my laptop only has one hdmi connector. Would anyone know if there be a cheap enough adaptor that I could access here in Ireland that would allow me to hook up both monitors to my laptop?

P.s. I have checked that the graphics card on my laptop and my OS Windows 10 can support 3 monitors.

Any help that you could give would be appreciated!!

MANY thanks, Valerie

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    Hi,

    A single HDMI to multi-VGA is not a likely popular enough product to be available for such use - it's a bit too specific for your scenario.

    Amazon has USB to VGA converters however, and a couple of those could be used, but the quality is likely to be poor and low-res.

    It may be better all-round to sell the monitors and replace with a single large high-res monitor with the connector your laptop supports.

    Your laptop may allow the in-built display and the external display to be usable. There are laptop stands that support propping up at an angle, and then you can use an external keyboard.

  • 0 in reply to shabaz

    Agreed, talking as a person who's used a VGA to HDMI adapter, the frequency it operates at ends up being... wrong, and misaligned because you're translating from a digital to an analogue signal or vice versa.

    Sometimes they also need to be 'active' devices, so you have to connect them up to a USB power source for them to work. It's sub-optimal and not really worth messing around with, they can also end up costing more than a pair of new monitors that can accept DVI or HDMI anyway.

    Plus... I think the person's asking for HDMI to 2x VGA, which I don't believe HDMI supports - DisplayPort would be do-able, if the graphics chip supported it, with some kinda frankenstein converter to go from DisplayPort -> 2x DisplayPort -> Maybe to HDMI first -> Some downscaler device -> VGA, but you're going to need twice the hardware and a lot of adapter cables and then... just why?

  • 0 in reply to cstanton

    It's all a mess once you try to stray even slightly from normal supported mechanisms for monitors : )

    I couldn't even get a 2-year-old Microsoft laptop and a modern new Dell monitor working together.. at least not consistently enough to be happy with it. I had to buy an official dock with the right supported connector finally (despite trying a variety of other options first!).

  • 0 in reply to shabaz

    Thanks so much Shabaz for your thoughts on this.  Yes it mightn't be the best idea after all.  Really appreciate you taking the time to answer my query.

  • 0 in reply to cstanton

    Thanks too to you Cstanton for your thoughts on this. I will find another monitor and forget this idea Really appreciate you taking the time to answer my query.

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