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HDMI->DVI not working on my PC-monitor, why?

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my gfx card (Radeon HD 4870) has 2 DVI-ports. my monitor, a BenQ G2412HD, has a HDMI-port. i've got a HDMI->DVI converter (see this link) and a HDMI-DVI cable. my problem: whenever i plug the DVI-part of the cable to my gfx card and the HDMI-part of the cable to the HDMI-port on the monitor, the screen doesn't appear. it just says "no video signal" on the screen... but when i hook the HDMI-part of the cable to the HDMI-DVI converter and plug the converter to the DVI-port on the monitor, the screen appears with no probs!

why cannot i get a video signal when i connect the cable directly to the HDMI-port on the monitor? what am i doing wrong?
 
Joined
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Location
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System Name Winter v3.2024
Processor Intel i7 12700K (since november 2021)
Motherboard Gigabyte Z690 Gaming X (since november 2021)
Cooling Air Liquid Freezer II 360 with LGA1700 kit (since november 2021)
Memory Crucial Ballistix 2x16gb 3600mhz C16 (since november 2021)
Video Card(s) Gigabyte RTX 3060 Ti Gaming OC Pro LHR - Rev3.0 (since july 2022)
Storage 1x 1TB WD Blue SN570 SSD, 1x Seagate 4TB SATA
Display(s) 1x 55" LG C1 4k OLED, 1x Gigabyte 32" M32Q and 2x AOC 27" CG1
Case Fractal Design Define R6 (since 2018 and still working like a charm!)
Power Supply Corsair RM850x black (since august 2022)
Mouse Razor Deathadder v2 (since december 2021)
Keyboard Varmilo VEA109 v2 MX Silent Red (since august 2022)
Software Windows 11 Pro
solved! there's a "source"/input-button on my screen that lets me choose from DVI to HDMI... doh! my bad, people.
 
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