50' VGA cable support 1920x1080?

[gregsenne]

If I use this 50' VGA cable to hook up my monitor, the computer will no longer recognize the monitor (calls it a Generic non-PnP monitor), and won't let it go up to 1920x1080. But I plug it in using a 8' VGA cable then it works fine, recognizes the monitor, and displays 1920x1080. The 50' cable is pretty thick (at least twice as thick in diameter as the 8' cable). I have tried this on 4 different monitors, same results. Three of the monitors tested were LCD TVs with VGA inputs. The other was a dell 22" lcd computer monitor.

So could it be the cable doing this? If so, is there a way around this so I can actually get 1920x1080 thru this 50' cable?

[kckyle]

beats me, but i had a similar experience as well. my conclusion. some cables are just not meant to be? but im a bit curious, why are you using a 50' long cable. the longer the cable the easier it is to break.

[gregsenne]

but im a bit curious, why are you using a 50' long cable. the longer the cable the easier it is to break.

Media Center PC in the living room, and I want to display whats on the computer on a monitor in the kitchen, too. It's a 40 ft run.

[kckyle]

so you tried it on 3 different monitors and none of them worked with the 50' cable? then yeah i would say it's a bad cable. longer cable tend to be less reliable since well. it's longer.

[Animegears]

longer means more signal loss and without something to amplify it before sending it through will cause corruption/data loss in what you are sending.

Is the cable just VGA? Plain VGA won't support higher resolutions as well at that length. You usually have to get a specialized SVGA cable or go DVI. In your case you may have to go DVI and get dvi/vga adapters for the end (assuming you don't have DVI out/in). I don't think even SVGA goes over 1900x1200 at that distance.