Windows – How to use two monitors: one from video card one from motherboard

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I'm trying to get two monitors set up. One is plugged into my graphics card using an hdmi cord, the other is plugged into my motherboard using another hdmi cord.

Graphics card: NVIDIA GeForce GTX 770

Motherboard: ASUS Maximus VI Gene

Monitors: Del S2740L

OS: Windows 8.1

Only the monitor plugged into the graphics card is working. Windows cant detect the monitor plugged into the motherboard.

Is there anyway I can get this to work?

Best Answer

Apparently the iGPU Multi-Monitor setting under advanced/system agent configuration/graphics configuration needs to be turned on. This is labelled for being for virtu but is necessary for the integrated GPU to be detectable by windows, even if you arn't running virtu.

Obviously the location of this may vary with different motherboard brands and the name of the setting may be different.

My guess is since lucid logix uses both GPUs, it tells the motherboard to simply run both - independent of whether you're running more than one monitor (with lucid outputting what you're rendering on the dedicated GPU to the integrated GPU), or using a multi-monitor set up taking advantage of both the IGPU and Dedicated GPU as independant outputs without lucid.

This might changed with later boards - but it was made possible by on die GPUs not using up PCIe lanes, and newer version of windows playing nice with more than one video card driver at a time.

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