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Questions about GIGABYTE products => Graphic cards => Topic started by: 10alpha1 on January 10, 2011, 08:54:39 am

Title: onboard graphics card
Post by: 10alpha1 on January 10, 2011, 08:54:39 am

Hello:
I have nvidea geoforce 9600 graphics card and I have two monitors that I'm using.  I have the third monitor plugged into the onboard graphics card and windows 7 doesn't recognize it.  How can I enable the third monitor to work. 

Specs:
Operating System   System Model
Windows 7 Ultimate (build 7600)
Install Language: English (United States)
System Locale: English (United States)   Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H55M-S2H
Enclosure Type: Desktop
Processor a   Main Circuit Board b
3.20 gigahertz Intel Core i5 650
32 kilobyte primary memory cache
4096 kilobyte secondary memory cache
64-bit ready
Multi-core (2 total)
Hyper-threaded (4 total)   Board: Gigabyte Technology Co., Ltd. H55M-S2H
Bus Clock: 133 megahertz
BIOS: Award Software International, Inc. F7 08/20/2010

Controllers   
ATA Channel 0 [Controller] (3x)
ATA Channel 1 [Controller] (3x)
Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Family 2 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 3B26
Intel(R) 5 Series/3400 Series Chipset Family 4 port Serial ATA Storage Controller - 3B20
Standard Dual Channel PCI IDE Controller 

Display
NVIDIA GeForce 9600 GT [Display adapter]
Generic Non-PnP Monitor (2x)

Title: Re: onboard graphics card
Post by: Dark Mantis on January 10, 2011, 08:58:35 am

This is not something that can be done as when the discrete graphics card is installed the onboard graphics is disabled. It is a one or the other situation.