Run Onboard graphics along with asus pci card

eking804

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Can someone here please tell me how to enable both the onboard graphics and pci card so I can setup 3 monitors. The computer I am using is a Gateway GT5428 running Windows Vista.
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Most name brand PC with onboard Video won't work if you have an addin card as well. I know dells are a lot like this. If you have an addin card it the onboard just won't work unless you tell it to use that one and not the PCIe card in the bios.
 

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Thanks for informing me. Do you know if DVI splitter cables work well?
 
A DVI Splitter ONLY DUPLICATES the connection its doesn't extend it so you can have an full extra monitor. ALSO!!! If you run MORE than 2 monitor you need a single High end Video card that support 3 monitor or Two high end cards in SLI/Crossfire (But almost all AMD cards support 3 monitors out of the box but you NEED to buy a ACTIVE DISPLAY PORT ADAPTER for it to work) or Two Low end video cards and run two monitors off one and the 3rd on another.
 

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again if you get 1 Video card the 3rd had to be a Display Port. What you would have to do is a get a video card, will probably have 2 DVI and then either a DP and HDMI on the high end cards. Then you have to buy an Active Display Port to DVI adapter and also a DVI to VGA Adapter if you need 2 DVI's and 1 VGA. Right now I don't have time to go searching for video cards but you'd be better off with an AMD video card since they have supported more than 2 monitors on 1 card longer than Nvidia have.