{"id":10289,"date":"2021-12-05T10:22:27","date_gmt":"2021-12-05T10:22:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lgildv5i97.onrocket.site\/answers\/?post_type=question&#038;p=10289"},"modified":"2021-12-05T10:22:43","modified_gmt":"2021-12-05T10:22:43","slug":"solved-kvm-switch-issue-and-vga-to-hdmi-adapters","status":"publish","type":"question","link":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/hardware\/kvm-switch-issue-and-vga-to-hdmi-adapters\/95637.html","title":{"rendered":"Solved KVM Switch Issue And VGA To HDMI Adapters"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have 2 PC\u2019s and KVM switch.<br \/>\nPC1 running Mac OS on MacBook Pro 2015 Mojave<br \/>\nPC2 running Mac OS on MacBook 2008 Catalina<br \/>\nI have 2 external Monitors: Monitor1 and Monitor2<br \/>\nMonitor 1 has 2 HDMI ports and 2 DisplayPort ports.<br \/>\nMonitor 2 has 1 VGA port.<br \/>\nPC1 is connected to Monitor 1 using HDMI port and to Monitor 2 via Thunderbolt to VGA port.<br \/>\nI connected KVM to PC1 and have no issues with Monitors I.e. I could use both.<br \/>\nThe issue is with PC2.<br \/>\nThe only working Monitor is Monitor 2.<br \/>\nMy goal is to enable Monitor 1 for PC2 as well. Note: I connected PC2 to KVM via Thunderbolt to VGA adapter.<br \/>\nMy attempt:<br \/>\nA. I have to connect PC2 to Monitor 1. I am going to buy either VGA to HDMI cable or VGA to DisplayPort cable and connect directly Monitor 1 to PC2(not using KVM cable)<br \/>\nWill it enable PC2 to display on both Monitors?<br \/>\nB. Maybe I need to buy VGA splitter and connect PC2 to both ports at the same time I.e. to Monitor 1 and KVM VGA cable?<br \/>\nWhat would be your advice: will option A work? In case it won\u2019t work \u2026. will option B work?<br \/>\nAnother question regarding adapter: e.g. I have to convert VGA out to Monitor DisplayPort input. Will adapter always work in both directions or not necessarily?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"inline_featured_image":false,"iawp_total_views":8},"question-category":[47],"question_tags":[],"class_list":["post-10289","question","type-question","status-publish","hentry","question-category-hardware"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question\/10289","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/question"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10289"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10289"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"question-category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question-category?post=10289"},{"taxonomy":"question_tags","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/computing.net\/answers\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/question_tags?post=10289"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}