Dual Display Help.

[tovaanu]

Disclaimer:[Not sure if this should be in "Monitors Thread" but having a go here seeing it seems to be a GFX issue]

System Specs:
CPU: i5 2550k + Akasa AK-CC4008HP01 Venom Voodoo CPU Cooler
Mobo: Gigabyte Z68AP-D3 LGA1155 Intel Z68
Ram: 2 x 4GB G.Skill DDR3 PC3-10666 Ripjaw Series
GFX: GeForce GTX 560 Ti Twin Frozr II - 1 GB GDDR5 - PCI-Express 2.0
HDD: 2TB Seagate Barracuda Green/ 500 GB Random / 16 GB SSD
PSU: Akasa Venom 750w Modular '80 Plus' Power Supply

On my late late GFX (god bless it) , I was able to get dual display (GTX 250) by using one DVI and one VGA cable.

Unfortunately it doesn't seems to work for my current setup so wondering if anyone knows what could have gone wrong?

I have the DVI monitor plugged in and it shows as Display 1 (Main monitor) and I have the VGA monitor plugged in using the DVI to VGA adapter but the second monitor just stays blank and m display setting only picks up one monitor. Both monitors are working fine.

I've tried to restart a couple of times with no success.

Any takers?

 

[tovaanu]

I've got another adapter and a spare VGA cable, which replicates the same issue.

Monitor 1 actually has a VGA & DVI port so i used second VGA cable + second adapter and still same issue except Monitor 1 stays blank while 2 is alive

seems very weird.

Trying a restart

You say only one monitor is shown in display settings?

Try clicking the 'detect' button a few times; failing that, try rebooting with both cables plugged in the card before the machine starts.

Also there's a little text box that lets you choose how the displays are configued, make sure that's on 'extend' or 'dubplicate' or similar, otherwise your other monitor won't recieve a signal.

Tried this as well with no luck


EDIT: One of the adapters isn't working because I swapped it for Monitor 2 and got no display, so we're down to 1 Adapter.

 

[tovaanu]

Might sound silly, but are you sure your DVI->ADAPTER->VGA are all well connected?

I hooked up an 18" and 32" to my GTX 480 last night, both through DVI to VGA adapters, and the second one kept coming loose, because I hadn't bothered to screw it down properly.

Yep, both screwed securely still no joy even with restarting. - Just can't pin point where the issue is, both monitors working, tried each cable individually - all working.. but when connected together only one works :__:

/waves fist.

At least i know one adapter is gone.