Input error on monitor, Card randomly getting hotter?

danielbr93

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Hello everybody in the forum.

Quick description:

  • Main monitor: Acer
    Second monitor: LG
    Video Card: MSI Geforce GTX 980 - Gaming 4G (New)
    CPU: Intel Core i7 3770K
    HDMI Cable: 20-40$ gold plated no-name product (New)
Monitors + CPU are 3+ years old at this point.

Main issue:
While browsing chrome, both my monitors started flickering for a second.
Main monitor is hooked up to the card and the second monitor to the motherboard.

After flickering the second monitor comes back, everything seems fine, but the main monitor says "Input error" or something of that sort, pretty well known from what I heard.

After taking out the HDMI cable and plugging it back in, everything works with the main monitor. That happens more likely when I'm using the PC up to 10 hours, I think.

Here is a MSI Afterburner graph displaying what happened when the connection between the main monitor and the card broke up:
[url=http://imgur.com/SWW3uXL]http://imgur.com/SWW3uXL[/url]

Here is my system file:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/tsoqgd0hmevtxcs/systemfile.txt?dl=0

That is pretty much everything. Not a huge problem, but I'm still wondering, because I heard some bad things throughout the internet.

Thanks in advance to anyone answering my question.
 
Solution
Yes you need to disable it in the BIOS, and you will have to plug both monitors into the video card. If you display a game on 1 monitor it is not going to slow down if you then have your desktop or something else up there.

Rogue Leader

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Why do you have one monitor connected to your 980 and the other connected to the motherboard? The 980 can drive everything.

As for your issue its likely a driver conflict, because generally if you install a GPU you would disable your iGPU. Its possible a program making a call to your GPU caused this issue.
 

danielbr93

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Aug 27, 2016
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Why isn't everything conntected to the 980?
- I guess it was a cable problem and my second monitor isn't having an HDMI port, etc.
Also, maybe my dumb brain thought that was right, I don't wanted to run 2 monitors on 1 card as that would take more power to run both monitors instead of running 1 game perfectly (I had a 680 as of 2 months ago). Not sure if that makes sense, anyways.

That driver conflict sounds plausible to me. Do I need to disable iGPU in the BIOS?
If I disable the iGPU, I also have to hook up my second monitor to my video card, right?

Thanks in advance!
 

danielbr93

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Aug 27, 2016
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Alright, thanks for the help. I will try this out.