So I have a Gigabyte GA-Z87X-UD4H LGA1150 motherboard that has an onboard Intel® HD4600 graphics card but I am also running a NVIDIA 9500 GT all on a Windows 8.1 64-bit OS.
When I first set this machine up and ran it, I kept getting a black screen. After several hours of searching and talking with Gigabyte specialist, the tier 3 engineer was able to fix my problem by going into bios and turning off the onboard graphics. He said there was competition for memory as both graphics cards were trying to run and in the end could not display anything. So after I turned off the onboard everything worked perfectly.
Well my problem is that I want to connect my tower to my HDTV via HDMI cable but there are no HDMI ports on a 9500 GT and the available DVI ports don't transmit sound (obviously). So I had 2 options. The first option was for me to buy a Cable Matters USB 3.0 to HDMI adapter but this solution did not work for me; I downloaded and installed the drivers and tried to change the display settings but it didn't give me any option to switch the display to the USB.
My 2nd option is to plug the hdmi into the motherboard's hdmi port powered by the onboard, well to get this working I have to reenable the onboard graphics through the bios again. I did this and plugged in the hdmi but I get the black screen. It seems the only way to really get this option to work is to physically unplug my NVIDIA card and enable the onboard but I don't want to keep doing that just to watch something on the HDTV.
Does anyone know of any other way to go about finding a solution to my problem or anything else I can do to get my above to solutions to work in a more efficient manner (or work at at all)?
When I first set this machine up and ran it, I kept getting a black screen. After several hours of searching and talking with Gigabyte specialist, the tier 3 engineer was able to fix my problem by going into bios and turning off the onboard graphics. He said there was competition for memory as both graphics cards were trying to run and in the end could not display anything. So after I turned off the onboard everything worked perfectly.
Well my problem is that I want to connect my tower to my HDTV via HDMI cable but there are no HDMI ports on a 9500 GT and the available DVI ports don't transmit sound (obviously). So I had 2 options. The first option was for me to buy a Cable Matters USB 3.0 to HDMI adapter but this solution did not work for me; I downloaded and installed the drivers and tried to change the display settings but it didn't give me any option to switch the display to the USB.
My 2nd option is to plug the hdmi into the motherboard's hdmi port powered by the onboard, well to get this working I have to reenable the onboard graphics through the bios again. I did this and plugged in the hdmi but I get the black screen. It seems the only way to really get this option to work is to physically unplug my NVIDIA card and enable the onboard but I don't want to keep doing that just to watch something on the HDTV.
Does anyone know of any other way to go about finding a solution to my problem or anything else I can do to get my above to solutions to work in a more efficient manner (or work at at all)?
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