ok thanks DMR, incredible amount of support and help from this site, im loving it, thank you soooo much !!

so im looking for a female to male connector?

ive been lookin and it doesnt seem as easy as u said to find :S am i lookin in the wrong places?

yup that looks like the one i need thanks :D only im in the uk so im gonna search for a uk company to order it from rather than get it all the way from the u.s at extra cost probably

thank u so...

my computer isnt a packard bell btw, its just the monitor im currently using my comp is custom built by urs truly

its not the fancy ones, u tlkin about the coloured ones right?, its a couple of huge grey ones 20" or 22" sumthin like tht,
the monitor plug has 15pins
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hi all,
got 2 massive 20" screens from a friend and they need me to buy em an adapter to work with standard graphics cards rather than with an apple computer with annoyingly different graphics...