Emachine video disabled

[rlane3907]

Looks like I'm having the opposite problem from everyone---I connected a monitor to the onboard VGA connector and it works fine. Leaving that setup connected, I then installed a video card and connected the PCI-Ex16 video card to a second monitor and it works fine---except I don't see any video on the first monitor. If I look at the BIOS setting, it is grayed out under the integrated peripherals. Does anyone know how to re-enable to onboard? Thanks. RIch

 

[ubercake]

It seems like your motherboard only wants to enable video from a single source. I don't know many that allow both onboard and discrete graphics cards to operate, because once you install the video card and connect a monitor to it, many motherboards automatically turn off the onboard video. What kind of motherboard is it? Does the video card you added have more than one connection/port? If so, try plugging both monitors into that one.

Can you tell what make/model the motherboard is? What model of e-machine PC are you working with?

If you disconnect the second monitor from the graphics card, do you get video again on the monitor plugged into the onboard video controller?

 

[rlane3907]

Thanks Ubercake. I put the VGA back on the video card and used that instead of the onboard video card. So I have my dual monitors again. Thanks again for your response.

 

[ubercake]

Thanks Ubercake. I put the VGA back on the video card and used that instead of the onboard video card. So I have my dual monitors again. Thanks again for your response.

No problem. Glad I could help.

 

[rlane3907]

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