Soldato
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I've got a cheap Gigabyte board (GA-73PVM-S2) with on board graphics.
It's not the most stylish, but it perfectly fine for it's use and work great with a Q6600 and 4Gb RAM under W7x64.
The onboard graphics has a VGA and a DVI-I connector and the Gigabyte litrature states it's "Dual View" so it's not a one or the other job.
I have purchased a matching 17" monitor to go with the existing one and I plugged it into the DVI-I via a DVI->VGA adaptor.
When I goto the settings, it recognises the second monitor and offers clone or extend mode, but selecting either and the 2nd monitor fails to wake up (orange light stays on). If I power cycle the monitor it goes green before displaying "No input signal" before going orange again.
I swapped the monitors around - same problem on the one in the DVI port.
I swapped the adaptor (One I know works from another machine) still no joy.
Tried reverting back to the MS built in driver (it's an Nvidia chipset running latest Nvidia drivers) - same outcome.
It was running 64Mb shared memory - tried upping to 128Mb and 256Mb - still the same.
Any thoughts?
It's not the most stylish, but it perfectly fine for it's use and work great with a Q6600 and 4Gb RAM under W7x64.
The onboard graphics has a VGA and a DVI-I connector and the Gigabyte litrature states it's "Dual View" so it's not a one or the other job.
I have purchased a matching 17" monitor to go with the existing one and I plugged it into the DVI-I via a DVI->VGA adaptor.
When I goto the settings, it recognises the second monitor and offers clone or extend mode, but selecting either and the 2nd monitor fails to wake up (orange light stays on). If I power cycle the monitor it goes green before displaying "No input signal" before going orange again.
I swapped the monitors around - same problem on the one in the DVI port.
I swapped the adaptor (One I know works from another machine) still no joy.
Tried reverting back to the MS built in driver (it's an Nvidia chipset running latest Nvidia drivers) - same outcome.
It was running 64Mb shared memory - tried upping to 128Mb and 256Mb - still the same.
Any thoughts?