Okay, I finally got around to buying a VGA cable so I can hook up my second monitor. However, after plugging it in, It is detected, but nothing is displayed. The current monitor is a ViewSonic VA1930wm (I Know, I know, old, but I had it laying around and after my build was done, I was totally broke.) The monitor I'm trying to connect is a Gateway 700G. My display adapter is a AMD Radeon R-9 270x VAPOR-X, and my mobo is a Gigabyte GA-Z77-D3H. I believe the problem is my current monitor is connected using a DVI cable, through my GPUS socket, and I am trying to hook up the new one through a VGA socket on the Mobo, not the GPU. I would try attaching the new monitor through the GPU as well, but It does not have a VGA port, and I don't have a DVI cable. When I try to attach both monitors through the mobo, instead of just the new one, neither works. I have tried disabling the Display adapter, but that fails to solve the problem as well. Anyone have any ideas?
Second Monitor Not Working [Windows 8]
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It should be one of 2 problems or maybe both. First, did you enable the intel integrated video in the UEFI (bios)? I'm not sure where it will be in a gigabyte UEFI, but there will be a setting to enable or disable the integrated video. Second, did you install the intel drivers for the integrated video? Even if you did, if the UEFI setting was disabled, you may still have to run the driver install again.
[edit] I pulled up the manual for the motherboard. You want to go to the "Peripherals" tab. Set "Init Display First" to "PEG". Then set "Internal Graphics" to "Enabled". The UEFI settings by default are "Auto" & "Auto" which will use add-on card as first display and disable the integrated. After you make these changes, reinstall the driver to be sure and you should be good to go.
[edit] I pulled up the manual for the motherboard. You want to go to the "Peripherals" tab. Set "Init Display First" to "PEG". Then set "Internal Graphics" to "Enabled". The UEFI settings by default are "Auto" & "Auto" which will use add-on card as first display and disable the integrated. After you make these changes, reinstall the driver to be sure and you should be good to go.
Okay. Either I'm blind, or I'm stupid. where the heck is this Peripherals tab in the BIOS? And just to make sure, I'm re-installing the GPU Drivers? Sorry, I don't know enough about the BIOS and Drivers as I should.
EDIT Okay, just checked the online manual. Definitely not the same bios I am running. going to look into this further, newest BIOS update was 3 months before I built my PC.
EDIT 2
*Sigh.* Sometimes I wonder how I tie my shoes in the morning. Turns out the Mobo I have saved on PCPartsPicker is totally not my Mobo. It took me 5 minutes staring at my manual with ASUS plastered over the front of it for me to realizing that something was wrong. [:thrillogy] I Actually have a Asus P8Z77-V Mobo. Sorry for the confusion and my stupidity.
Got any other ideas?
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The problem is still going to be the same. Just somewhere in the asus bios. Unfortunately the asus website is down right now and i look at the manual for your specific board, but i have a z87 asus board, maybe the bios is laid out the same. Try the "Advanced" tab at the top, then "System Agent Configuration", "Graphics Configuration", set "Primary Display" to "PCIE" and set "iGPU Mulit-Monitor" to "Enabled".
The drivers that you want to install are the Intel Display Drivers, there should be a version of them included with the disc that came with the mobo.
The drivers that you want to install are the Intel Display Drivers, there should be a version of them included with the disc that came with the mobo.
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On the Drivers download page for the motherboard, just pick the most recent driver version from the "VGA" section for whichever OS you are using.
Hey man, sorry about the delay. I downloaded This Driver-
Inside the foloder is 'AsusSetup.exe'. I try running it and I'm presented with this-
After seeing this, I double checked what the requirements were.
The System Must Contain one of the following Intel Processors- I5 3570k. Done.
The Software should be installed on systems with at least 1 GB of System Memory- I have 8 gigabytes. Done.
There Should be Sufficent Hard Disk space in the <TEMP> directory on the system in order to install this software- I have 185 Gigabytes on the HDD that Windows and this file is located on.
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I'm not sure why you are getting that error.
Since you changed the bios settings, have you attached the monitor to the VGA port on the motherboard?
If you did, do you get any display on it at all?
If you haven't, try it. If there is no display, check your display properties screen resolution menu, does it show a second monitor attached?
[Edit] Look in your device manager in the control panel. Under Display Adapters, does it show your video card and a second device, possibly an unknow device?
You could try booting the computer with only the monitor attached to the motherboard to try and force it to use that connection. If you do this, you would probably have to go back into the bios and set "init first display" to "Auto" or "iGPU".
Lastly, you can try removing the graphics card from the computer and forcing the integrated gpu that way, again you will need to make the same changes to the bios as i wrote above.
Let me know what you find.
Since you changed the bios settings, have you attached the monitor to the VGA port on the motherboard?
If you did, do you get any display on it at all?
If you haven't, try it. If there is no display, check your display properties screen resolution menu, does it show a second monitor attached?
[Edit] Look in your device manager in the control panel. Under Display Adapters, does it show your video card and a second device, possibly an unknow device?
You could try booting the computer with only the monitor attached to the motherboard to try and force it to use that connection. If you do this, you would probably have to go back into the bios and set "init first display" to "Auto" or "iGPU".
Lastly, you can try removing the graphics card from the computer and forcing the integrated gpu that way, again you will need to make the same changes to the bios as i wrote above.
Let me know what you find.
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