Problems with double monitors

[Mortalcio]

I've baught a new monitor today from acer and it works fine when I plug the hdmi however when I try to connect it from dvi it doesn't work, I'm connecting both monitors to my graphics card one through hdmi other through dvi howver I baught a adapter as I don't have any vga ports in my graphics card. So the cable is a vga cable which the normal end is connected to the monitor and the other side is connected through te adapter to a Dvi port in my pc

[shaithis]

If the port is dual-link DVI or DVI-D, then a VGA>DVI adapter will not work due to the port not accepting an analogue signal.

Is there a second DVI port on the gfx card to try? or a DVI or HDMI port on the monitor?

[Mortalcio]

The graphics card is Radeon 290

[Mortalcio]

When I get home I'll let you know exactly what type of ports I have in monitor and pc

[shaithis]

From what I can tell, a lot (if not all) the 290 cards only have DVI-D

You would need an active converter, like : https://www.startech.com/uk/AV/Conve...x1200~DVI2VGAE

And at £40, I would consider paying a bit extra and replacing the monitor!

[Mortalcio]

Is there a possibility where I can plug vga to motherboard and the one I game on to my graphics card ?

[shaithis]

Is there a possibility where I can plug vga to motherboard and the one I game on to my graphics card ?

Yes, if you turn the iGPU on, you should be able to do dual monitor with one on the dGPU and the other on the iGPU

[Mortalcio]

That's the ports I have in my pc and one of my monitors, and this is my specs:

Operating System
Windows 7 Ultimate 64-bit SP1
CPU
Intel Core i5 4460 @ 3.20GHz 24 °C
Haswell 22nm Technology
RAM
8.00GB Single-Channel DDR3 @ 799MHz (9-9-9-24)
Motherboard
ASRock H81M (CPUSocket) 26 °C
Graphics
G246HL (1920x1080@60Hz)
4096MB ATI AMD Radeon R9 200 Series (ASUStek Computer Inc) 34 °C
Storage
931GB Western Digital WD WD10EZEX-08M2NA0 SCSI Disk Device (SATA) 23 °C
Optical Drives
TSSTcorp CDDVDW SH-224DB SCSI CdRom Device
Audio
Realtek High Definition Audio

What about if I purchase dvi? Will I just be able to connect both?

[Mortalcio]

http://imgur.com/0Z8u791

http://imgur.com/mKcGjHD

[Mortalcio]

I am really stupid all I need is a dvi-d cable haha ! I have a dvid port in my graphics card x2 and one in my monitor excuse my stupidity!

[Zak33]

hey... we all do it!

[EndlessWaves]

If the port is dual-link DVI or DVI-D, then a VGA>DVI adapter will not work due to the port not accepting an analogue signal.

Is there a second DVI port on the gfx card to try? or a DVI or HDMI port on the monitor?

Dual Link doesn't exclude the VGA pins, you can have a socket that's both DVI-I and Dual Link.

Additionally, if it is a DVI-D port the holes for the DVI-A pins should be blocked off and it shouldn't be possible to connect the adapter.

[Mortalcio]

I have a port in my monitor DVI-D and in my monitor DVI-D I only needed to buy a cable for it to work instead of playing around with adapters ^^.