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DUAL MONITORS

DUAL MONITORS
« on: May 13, 2011, 12:34:42 am »
my motherboard is a gigabyte (GA-MA74GM-S2H) AMD 74OG/SB710/REV4.3 . IT STAES THAT I CANT USE AN ADPATER FOR DUAL MONITORS ON THE DVD-D CONNECTORS BUT AT MOMENT IAM USING A VGA FOR ONE MONITOR AND I WANT TO USE THE SECOND MONITOR AND WHEN I BOUGHT ONE DVI-D TO VGA CABLE IT DID NOT WORK I WA ABLE TO DETEC MONITOR, IAM ASKING IF THERE IS AN ONE WITH A SOLUTION TO HELP AS I NEED TO WORK WITH DUAL MONITORS

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Re: DUAL MONITORS
« Reply #1 on: May 13, 2011, 12:28:57 pm »
This is not really my area but I thought that you could use the secondary output but just not for booting with. I thought that you could run the second monitor off the DVI port even if it was a VGA connection.

Of course if it is really important you could purchase a monitor that is DVI ported.
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