My office has two workstations that only I use: a desk where I sit and a desk where I stand. I want to be able to move back and forth between them and have the same computing environment at each. That is, the sitting desk will have a monitor with my desktop plus a monitor with an extended desktop. The standing desk will have a monitor cloning the desktop at the sitting desk and a monitor cloning the extended desktop at sitting desk.
The monitors are different:
Sitting desk:
HP S2231 (1xVGA, 1xDVI inputs)
Acer x223w (1xVGA, 1xDVI inputs)
Standing desk:
Asus vs247h (1xVGA, 1xDVI inputs)
Acer g246hl (1xHDMI, 1xVGA, 1xDVI inputs)
My HP computer, running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, has an integrated graphics card with 1xVGA and 1xDVI outs and an ATI Radeon HD 3650 PCI-e card with 1xHDMI, 1xVGA and 1xDVI output.
Can I connect the monitors to the integrated graphics and to the PCI-e card simultaneously? If so, how do I configure this? In Device Manager, under Display Adapters, I see "ATI Radeon HD 3650". Can I simultaneously enable the integrated graphics? If so, how? (Right now, when I connect a VGA cable to the integrated graphics card, the monitor shows "no signal")
If I cannot use both integrated graphics and the PCI-e video card together, then can I use the HDMI, the DVI and the VGA outs on the PCI-e card simultaneously, possibly with an active splitter for the VGA signal together? Are there other configuration options I should consider? I am open to buying some new hardware to make this arrangement work out.
Any advice or thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
The monitors are different:
Sitting desk:
HP S2231 (1xVGA, 1xDVI inputs)
Acer x223w (1xVGA, 1xDVI inputs)
Standing desk:
Asus vs247h (1xVGA, 1xDVI inputs)
Acer g246hl (1xHDMI, 1xVGA, 1xDVI inputs)
My HP computer, running Windows 7 Pro 64-bit, has an integrated graphics card with 1xVGA and 1xDVI outs and an ATI Radeon HD 3650 PCI-e card with 1xHDMI, 1xVGA and 1xDVI output.
Can I connect the monitors to the integrated graphics and to the PCI-e card simultaneously? If so, how do I configure this? In Device Manager, under Display Adapters, I see "ATI Radeon HD 3650". Can I simultaneously enable the integrated graphics? If so, how? (Right now, when I connect a VGA cable to the integrated graphics card, the monitor shows "no signal")
If I cannot use both integrated graphics and the PCI-e video card together, then can I use the HDMI, the DVI and the VGA outs on the PCI-e card simultaneously, possibly with an active splitter for the VGA signal together? Are there other configuration options I should consider? I am open to buying some new hardware to make this arrangement work out.
Any advice or thoughts will be greatly appreciated.
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