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I hope I am allowed to post? I know how some tech sites can be. If not I am very sorry.

Unearthly, When plugging in your second monitor into your ATI card, when you go into advanced properties does it say,Monitor 1 and Monitor 2?

And Also is it a second edition 9800pro, or first.

joe5 · 04:35 AM

Originally Posted by TUX

I hope I am allowed to post? I know how some tech sites can be. If not I am very sorry.

No prob to post. O0 If you think you can help or have something interesting , go ahead.
Only don't reply to Hijackthis logs unless you really know what you are doing.

But atm , he's trying one monitor in the radeon , and one in the motherboard onboard chip.
If he has indeed two monitor outputts on his card then i would indeed use those ofcourse though. But im waiting for his awnser on that.

Unearthly · 04:42 AM

I looked through my BIOS options and didn't see any that involved enabling or disabling the onboard video.

Doesn't youre vga card have 2 separete monitor outputts itself btw?

Not of the normal monitor type. It has S-Video and some other I don't reconize, but only 1 standard port.

-EDIT for new posts-

Unearthly, When plugging in your second monitor into your ATI card, when you go into advanced properties does it say,Monitor 1 and Monitor 2?

Under display settings it shows the two monitors with #2 shaded out.

And Also is it a second edition 9800pro, or first.

How do I find that out?

TUX · 04:40 AM

In your Bios there should be somwhere to turn off Onboard graphics such as is the advanced section of the Bios. This way you don't eat up all of your ram being used as onboard as well as your AGP slot.

And also I forgot sorry.. You can go into your device manager and disable your onboard graphic chip. The 9800 pro will show up on a second monitor, but some such as ATI themselves did not come out with that provision untill the second pro card. But other companys such as Saphire tech etc, had it out for the First pro cards.

joe5

If you go to youre local computer store then you can buy a DVI converter for that for a few bucks. That would be a better solution then using the onboard chip i think.

TUX

sorry for the delay did not see your edit..

Thats can be the tricky part. We can start by asking when you bought the card.

Now when you go into your GPU's properties under secondary click on that and click apply. Now you should be able to see the second monitor now without being shaded out.

Ok I could have sworn I seen a reply befoe mine lol.

Unearthly

I'm still having trouble finding the enable/disable, I think my onboard graphics card isn't working anymore. That would cause all this to fail right?

If you go to youre local computer store then you can buy a DVI converter for that for a few bucks. That would be a better solution then using the onboard chip i think.

Huzzah! This sounds like a solution. I can definately spare a couple bucks for a quick and easy solution. :P

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