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Snodge

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Snodge

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Hi guys,

I've recently tried to upgrade my HP Pavilion P6-2065UK with a dedicated graphics card, However when I try to boot the machine it gets stuck on the bios :(

I ordered a MSI GT720 to display three screens however this card is causing me the problem at the bios and not booting into windows :(

I thought maybe drivers weren't being automatically installed to display the windows image however I plugged a GT520 into the Machine and it started first time no problems.

I've tested the GT720 in another machine and verified it's fully functional however it seems in the HP computer it doesn't want to have it ?

Any ideas?

I've also updated the bios from 7.14 to 7.16 which didn't help matters.
 
What card can I order to do three screens then Stulid its needs to be low power as the PSU is only 300w,

Any ideas ?
 
If that definitely possible ?

As I could use the gt520 to power two screens then use the motherboard to power the other one

So the three screens have VGA and HDMI

So HDMI to HDMI from the card, VGA to VGA from the motherbosrd and then DVI to HDMI (I have the adapter to plug HDMI into the screen to use a dvi cable)
 
Dont see why not, force the integrated graphics to enable.

Install the intel driver

In fact I proved it to some one on this forum but using a Z97 board+GTX980 let me find the post.
 
So I need to boot with the Gt520 in there, and get into the BIOS and ensure Intel graphics are enabled, then save and exit then install nvidia drivers (they're already on the machine)
 
So in theory as the nvidia drivers are already installed I can boot via the Gt520 in terms of display so I can power two screens no problem then enable Intel graphics driver side or will the bios disable Intel drivers as soon as a GPU is present
 
If you make the IGP enabled instead of Auto.

then boot.

You arent going to break anything, so have a fiddle, it took me two trys to nail it.
 
My plan is to boot with the gt520, go into the bios and make igp enabled it is a 2600 so should be fine.

Then download inf files (will probably take me a while to find :P)

Then hope whilst it displaying two screens from the gpu I can add the third into the motherboard and it'll pick up. If this works you'll make me so happy
 
Stulid if this doesn't work do you know of any cards that might be compatible with the PC to display three screens or do you think this will definitely work? :)
 
You have to try it, to be honest I'm surprised you haven't come back with a yay or nay.

I know of cards that can support three displays but cant guarantee they work with your board (even boot up) or are cheap.
 
Thank you so much Stulid, it worked a treat ended up running two monitors from the GPU and one from the motherboard.

In Control panel trying to rearrange the screens and make one primary it kept crashing "windows explorer isn't responding" however after a few attempts it let me in :)

Then apart from that everything seemed to run perfectly :)
 
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