External monitor on MacBook Pro

skives

Ok so here is the situation. My dad has the most recent MacBook Pro 15" and I gave him my view sonic vx2035wm monitor to use with it. He has apples mini display port to dvi adapter. When we try to connect the monitor to the mbp it didn't work. The monitor isn't detected by the mbp. Does anyone know what the problem could be and what I can do to fix it? Thank you all.

Marvin

A few people have had the same issue:



http://forums.macrumors.com/archive/.../t-597600.html



It should work with the VGA adaptor. You don't have to use Apple's adaptors, eBay ones are cheaper and work fine:



http://cgi.ebay.com/Mini-DisplayPort...ht_5795wt_1139



There's no obvious reason why the DVI adaptor doesn't work. It outputs DVI-D and the monitor is DVI-D.