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I've been trying to setup a dual monitor, one in gpu and the other in mobo, I've followed people's advice to enable the iGPU, but i can't find it in my mobo's bios, intead, i found IGP. What's the differenct between iGPU and IGP

mobo: Asus M4N68T-M
gpu: MSI GTX 780 Twin Frozr
 
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Right, i just saw that in the ASUS page for your mobo, sorry for the confusion. So now, when you open the NVIDIA control center, it should detect 2 GPUs, the integrated one and the discrete one, correct? Open the control panel, go to the menu "About" and select "System information", it should show in the lefthand list both the GTX 780 and the nForce 630, doesn't it?

Assuming it does, if you go the "Screen" and then "Manage multiple screens" menu item (as i described above), what does it show? Last thing you told me was that "it shows the the second screnn (connected to the mobo) is not detected", which sounds confusing to me: if the second screen is NOT detected, how does it show in the list? Or, if it does show in the list it means...
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There's no difference, iGPU stands for "integrated Graphics Processing Unit" and IGP for "Integrated Graphics Processor": it's the same. Enable the IGP in the BIOS and plug one monitor into the iGPU/IGP, the other monitor into the dGPU (your GTX 780), and that should do it :)
 
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Oh right, i guess that clears up a few things, well i did just that but now the monitor that was connected to the gpu doesn't show anything, I'm still new in this whole computer things so im still unsure whats the next step after enabling the IGP,
 
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Ok, now it's a software problem:

Open the Nvidia control panel (right-click on the desktop, you should see the option in the menu, provided you have installed your Nvidia drivers - otherwise, install them: http://www.nvidia.com/Download/index.aspx?lang=en-us), there is a "Screen" tree-item in the tree-menu on the left. There's got to be a sub-item in that tree-item called Manage multiple screens" (or something like that, my control panel is not in english). There you can activate the screen and set how the desktop should consider it: as a second, independent screen, or as a clone of the other screen, basically.

Hope it helps!
 
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I've opened the control panel but it shows the the second screnn (connected to the mobo) is not detected


 
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Not sure i understand, correct me if i'm wrong: right now, you get an image in the monitor that is plugged into the GTX 780, but not in the one connected to the mobo iGPU, is that it? And you only see one screen detected in the Nvidia control panel?

The Nvidia control panel controls the screens connected to the Nvidia GPU. I understand you only got one screen connected to the GTX 780, so it should only show one monitor. The other monitor, if connected to the iGPU, must be detected by the software of the mobo (AMD software, seeing as your mobo is for AMD). So you have to manage one screen via the Nvidia control panel, and the other via the AMD control panel (Catalyst Control Center, or Crimson, depending on the version of the AMD software).

What i'm wondering is: the GTX 780 has several outputs: why don't you just plug all the monitors to the 780, so that you can manage all screens from the same place?

Hope this helps, let me know!
 
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ohhh, I didn't know i need the AMD control panel, i'm so stupid.... The reason why i didn't plug both in the 780 is because the second screen only have the vga slot. and Thank you so much, you've been very helpful

 
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I've done some checking, it turns out i have nvidia chipset (GeForce 7025/ nForce 630a) what do i do..?
 
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Right, i just saw that in the ASUS page for your mobo, sorry for the confusion. So now, when you open the NVIDIA control center, it should detect 2 GPUs, the integrated one and the discrete one, correct? Open the control panel, go to the menu "About" and select "System information", it should show in the lefthand list both the GTX 780 and the nForce 630, doesn't it?

Assuming it does, if you go the "Screen" and then "Manage multiple screens" menu item (as i described above), what does it show? Last thing you told me was that "it shows the the second screnn (connected to the mobo) is not detected", which sounds confusing to me: if the second screen is NOT detected, how does it show in the list? Or, if it does show in the list it means it's been detected but maybe not activated. Can you please clarify which one is correct, or describe what you see in this menu? Or a screenshot...?
 
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