Mobo's vga and dvi ports not working.

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77l77l

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Greetings.Today i bought a second monitor with both dvi and vga ports (in case you needs this info) and i tried connecting my old monitor to the motherboard's vga or dvi ports but both didnt work.My new monitor is connected through dvi on my gpu.Is there something i need to do in order to make the ports work?My CPU has a graphics card (because i saw some different posts saying that your CPU must have graphics for the ports to work).Below are my specs in case you need something.


GPU:Gtx 970
CPU:intel core i5 4460 3.20 ghz
Motherboard:MSI H97-g43 RETAIL
Ram:16gb ddr3

All cables and monitors are perfectly fine because i tested them elsewhere.Thanks in advance
 
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Wolfshadw
That's because those "adapters" do not convert a digital DVI signal to an analog VGA signal.

Connect your old monitor using the DVI-I port of your graphics card and a DVI-I to VGA adapter. Connect your new monitor using the DVI-D output from your graphics card to the DVI port of your new monitor.

181px-DVI_Connector_Types.svg.png


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Christopher Vinciguerra

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I recall a GTX 970 having 2 DVI ports, so try plugging both into the graphics card and double check that there is in fact only one port on the GPU.

If I am wrong and there IS only one DVi port on the GPU, follow this to enable the motherboard port:

Since that port is part of the CPU's internal graphics like you said, You have to go into your BIOS (Spam either DELETE, F12, OR F2 on boot) and manually make sure that the integrated graphics are forced on, as normally a dedicated graphics card makes the integrated graphics turn off. The setting should be titled something like "iGPU" With an option for auto, on, or off. Turn it on, reboot and wait for windows to load. Check for updates in settings--->check for update----->check for updates and see if the integrated drivers get installed.

 
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77l77l

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Thats true, my GPU has 2 dvi ports but only dvi-i port worked for me .The dvi-d port didnt work i bought 2 different dvi-d addaptors but nosignal.Ill try the bios thing,ill inform you later today
 
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What DVI-D adapter did you purchase? You shouldn't have needed anything. Just use a straight DVI to DVI cable and it should work.

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That's because those "adapters" do not convert a digital DVI signal to an analog VGA signal.

Connect your old monitor using the DVI-I port of your graphics card and a DVI-I to VGA adapter. Connect your new monitor using the DVI-D output from your graphics card to the DVI port of your new monitor.

181px-DVI_Connector_Types.svg.png


-Wolf sends
 
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77l77l

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Oh i see where this is going.I just need to buy a dvi-d cable to connect my new monitor on the dvi-d port.Then use the dvi-i adaptor on my old monitor and on the dvi-i ports(which work s because i tested it.)

Just so i know,an hdmi to dvi-d cable ,would that make my new monitor work?Theres an Hdmi port on the GPU.
 
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