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Jake McLanaghan

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I bought a BenQ monitor which is hooked up to my pc via HDMI (INTO THE GRAPHICS CARD- GTX 770)

My old monitor only supports the VGA input.

I would like to use the old monitor for semi afk gaming while i do my normal activities on the BenQ. I can only connect my old monitor to the motherboard because there is no VGA slot on my graphics card.

I have tried this and the old monitor simply shows a black screen. although it says "reconnect cable" or some variant of that when i take out the vga.

Is it not possible to use these two monitors in this way?
 
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Jaxem
Most motherboards don't support using the integrated graphics chipset at the same time as a discrete card. That being said, why wouldn't you be doing your gaming on your gaming grade monitor that connected to a higher quality connection? Either way, i would connect both to the card and i'm guessing your card probably has a DVI output that you can get a cheap adapter for to get VGA out of the card (i have 2 rigs that i've done this on). These adapters are super cheap, and the easiest way to get VGA on a higher end card that doesn't have VGA:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DVI-I-24-5-Pin-Male-To-15-Pin-VGA-Female-Adapter-Convertor-FastShipping-From-USA-/230898124489?pt=US_Video_Cables_Adapters&hash=item35c299c6c9

There, $2.50 for one, shipped.
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+1 to the adapter.

The motherboard isn't outputting any signal because your GTX 770 is performing the duty.
 
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Most motherboards don't support using the integrated graphics chipset at the same time as a discrete card. That being said, why wouldn't you be doing your gaming on your gaming grade monitor that connected to a higher quality connection? Either way, i would connect both to the card and i'm guessing your card probably has a DVI output that you can get a cheap adapter for to get VGA out of the card (i have 2 rigs that i've done this on). These adapters are super cheap, and the easiest way to get VGA on a higher end card that doesn't have VGA:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/DVI-I-24-5-Pin-Male-To-15-Pin-VGA-Female-Adapter-Convertor-FastShipping-From-USA-/230898124489?pt=US_Video_Cables_Adapters&hash=item35c299c6c9

There, $2.50 for one, shipped.
 
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Jake McLanaghan

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Its because i want to run eve online on the old monitor, which i can do pretty much afk and stay up to date with stuff and make a little in game money. Then on the good monitor i could play some counter strike or borderlands or something.

I know the way i said it before sounded weird. but it makes sense to me :D
(its basically for multitasking, and prioritising the things im paying more attention to by using them on the better monitor)

Ill try one of those adapters, thanks
 
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