VGA Monitor to DVI on NVidia GTX 950

[Stryder64]

I was wanting to hook up a Dell E172FP1 VGA monitor to the DVI port on my nVidia GTX 950 video card.  My main monitor is working on the HDMI hookup just fine.  I have the VGA cable from the monitor going into an adapter to the DVI port in the video card.  Windows 10 or the nVidia settings software does not recognize the Dell monitor.  I could use a little advice here, thanks.

[BC_Programmer]

Try the other DVI port from the one you are using. Most 950's come with one DVI-I port and one DVI-D port. only the DVI-I port has the analog signals that are necessary for the adapter to work.

If you don't have another DVI port, then it seems like the one you have is DVI-D which means you don't have a (straightforward) way of using it with your VGA monitor.

[Ajfer03]

Does anything appear on your monitor? Like any signal at all?