IGD and PEG at the same time for 2 monitors?

Red_Owl

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Dec 28, 2016
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Alrighty here's the problem i saw it online that i can use 2 monitors on my external gpu and the on-board one that comes with the mobo, buuut here's the funny part when i go to bios to set it to igd it just turns on the monitor that's plugged in on the igd, the one on the external gpu is just not working, there were several options i've tried them all in the bios like peg+ igd which means it starts first the gpu than the igd its a no no cause the igd needs to start first i've tried giving the igd more memory from 32mb to 128mb i've tried the modes like pci + igd/ pci + peg and i've set it to default peg + pci however is it possible to be due to the drivers or something cause after all it's an old mobo and i'm using win10 pro 64 the mobo is foxconn g41mxe and the external gpu is r9 280x vapor-x. I just wanted to plug in an older monitor that i had which has vga and i bought a vga to dvi connector for the monitor but it doesnt work cause i bought a dvi-i connector instead of the dvi d and i kinda wasted 5 euros on it and i wanted to try out the igp on the mobo since i dont use it atleast to use the monitor to show me twitch chat or something when i stream, so any idea why it doesn't work? :)

Oh and btw i have the latest drivers for the bios and for the gpu installed!
 
Solution
See if a multi-monitor option is available in BIOS. For DVI-D to VGA, you'd need an active adapter. A passive one would work only if DVI-I available.