need to know..very desperate.

[Yugi Starwind]

okay, i'm a prowd mac owner. there's a downside with thsat though. barely any games are avaialable on the mac. so i decided to build my own windows PC, but be cheap and not buy a monitor for my windows one. I found an aapple product(DVI to ADC adapter) that lets me change monitor types, per se, (IE: lets me use my flat screen mac monitor w/ a windows machine). I tried it on a windows machine.(a gateway 2000. approx. 5 yrs old @ most) and, to my anger and perplexment, got no display on the monitor when pulgged into the gateway. i then used it on my mac. works fine. so, is there a way i can get this DVI-ADC adapter to support a windows machine?(i weas running 98 v.2 on the gateway. my new machine will either be ME or XP). is it just a problem all together, or is there something i'm missing? and yes, i have 1 other adaptor plugged to the DVI/ADC. it's simply a port/pin adaptor to go from mac monitor types to "windows" / regular monitors. so once more i ask you, is there a solution to the dilemma?