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| Author: | RedRamage [ 22 Mar 2011, 16:41 ] |
| Post subject: | Can I hook a fourth monitor up to my built in Video Card? |
I'm pretty sure the answer to this is no, but I thought I'd ask just to make sure... I get a Radeon HD 5770 recently, and put it in my HP box. I've got it running three monitors very nicely and I'm happy with the results. But of course, I'm a geek and I'm never happy with the status quo. I've got a fourth monitor because I replaced that one with three identical to run the Eyefinity. Now of course the 5770 "takes over" as the Video out device. In fact when I look in the Devices of the Control Panel I don't even see the built in card listed as an option in display adapters. Just the Radeon. But is there a way to make it appear? It might be nice to have like a score upgrade from a baseball game or something running on the 4th screen while I'm playing a computer game on the eyefinity setup. Anyone know of a way to make this happen? I being the onboard video card is a nvidia. |
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| Author: | Delphium [ 22 Mar 2011, 17:44 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can I hook a fourth monitor up to my built in Video Card? |
In theory that should work, however the BIOS may disable the onboard gfx card when it detects the dedicated ATI gfx card. Try checking the bios to see if you can still enable the onboard gfx card when the ATI is plugged in, if it allows you, you should then see both the ATI and the nvidia in device manager, and use the onboard for the 4th display. |
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| Author: | RedRamage [ 23 Mar 2011, 13:42 ] |
| Post subject: | Re: Can I hook a fourth monitor up to my built in Video Card? |
In theory that should work, however the BIOS may disable the onboard gfx card when it detects the dedicated ATI gfx card. Thanks for the tip on where to look. You are right that my BIOS only seems to allow one Vid card at a time. :( Oh well. |
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