I work in a hospital/university's pathology department and was recently tasked with setting up dual extended monitors. However, the machine I am working with is an Emachine EL1352-51 and only has 1 VGA port and a bunch of USB ports.
I bought a low profile graphics card from a computer part recycling store (that has 1 VGA slot, 1 HDMI slot, and 1 DVI slot) and physically installed it (as in did not install any driver software as none came with it, just the actual piece).
When I first attempted to boot the computer up, I didn't try plugging anything into the new card, opting to just see if it would boot like normal with the 1 monitor plugged into the original VGA. The computer booted successfully (with beep), and the fan on the new graphics card also booted up. However, the monitor was completely black and kept trying to go into sleep mode. I tried plugging into the new VGA port, but that didn't work either.
I completely removed the additional graphic card and rebooted and it all worked like normal with active monitor.
Oh! And of course, the computer does not have internet access and I don't think that I can change that.
Specs: (i'm not very tech savvy, so i'll just include all info i could find)
Emachine EL1352-51
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
AMD Athlon II 170u processor
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE graphics
Mult-in-One Media Card Reader
The low profile graphics card:
GeForce GT710 2048M DDRJ PCIE
I bought a low profile graphics card from a computer part recycling store (that has 1 VGA slot, 1 HDMI slot, and 1 DVI slot) and physically installed it (as in did not install any driver software as none came with it, just the actual piece).
When I first attempted to boot the computer up, I didn't try plugging anything into the new card, opting to just see if it would boot like normal with the 1 monitor plugged into the original VGA. The computer booted successfully (with beep), and the fan on the new graphics card also booted up. However, the monitor was completely black and kept trying to go into sleep mode. I tried plugging into the new VGA port, but that didn't work either.
I completely removed the additional graphic card and rebooted and it all worked like normal with active monitor.
Oh! And of course, the computer does not have internet access and I don't think that I can change that.
Specs: (i'm not very tech savvy, so i'll just include all info i could find)
Emachine EL1352-51
Windows 7 Home Premium 64-bit
AMD Athlon II 170u processor
NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE graphics
Mult-in-One Media Card Reader
The low profile graphics card:
GeForce GT710 2048M DDRJ PCIE
Facebook
Twitter
Instagram