Dual display w/onboard graphics plus video card?
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I have an older system I built a few years ago with an ECS 6100SM-M motherboard (came as a package deal with AMD CPU). I have been using the onboard graphics, but I have a spare video card and a spare monitor and thought it would be fun to use a dual monitor setup. When I install the video card, the onboard graphics seem to be disabled. Is this common? I looked in the BIOS and there's a setting that lets me choose whether to display onboard graphics or PCI-E first. No matter which one I choose, the PCI-E card and the monitor attached to it are the only ones that work. Control Panel in XP is showing that I have only 1 video card (the onboard graphics are not appearing). So this is clearly an issue with the motherboard/BIOS...is it possible to run both monitors? I think it would be silly to add two video cards when the work I'm doing (page layout) is not CPU or GPU-intensive. The onboard graphics are ample!
I have an older system I built a few years ago with an ECS 6100SM-M motherboard (came as a package deal with AMD CPU). I have been using the onboard graphics, but I have a spare video card and a spare monitor and thought it would be fun to use a dual monitor setup. When I install the video card, the onboard graphics seem to be disabled. Is this common? I looked in the BIOS and there's a setting that lets me choose whether to display onboard graphics or PCI-E first. No matter which one I choose, the PCI-E card and the monitor attached to it are the only ones that work. Control Panel in XP is showing that I have only 1 video card (the onboard graphics are not appearing). So this is clearly an issue with the motherboard/BIOS...is it possible to run both monitors? I think it would be silly to add two video cards when the work I'm doing (page layout) is not CPU or GPU-intensive. The onboard graphics are ample!
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Thanks. I'd reached that conclusion and was feeling disappointed when I realized that the video card (which has DVI and VGA out) came with an adapter to convert the DVI to a 2nd VGA...both of my monitors are old VGA models, so I'm good to go. I'm typing this on one of my 2 active screens. Thanks for the reply.
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