Dual Monitors, Anyone? I have two monitors (one VGA, one DVI) that worked on my previous computer for dual monitor setup. Even though this Acer AX1700-U3700A computer has those two video outputs, only the DVI monitor displays. The NVidia control panel recognizes only the one monitor. Has anyone had success getting two to work?UPDATE: In the cardboard box that your AX1700 computer came in is an adapter card with a short cord and plug and an analog video socket. Open computer case (voids warranty), remove modem card located under NVidia card, install adapter card, plug short cable into NVidia card. Now your second monitor will work! Note: one monitor must be DVI and the other analog. Dual Monitors, Anyone? I have two monitors (one VGA, one DVI) that worked on my previous computer for dual monitor setup. Even though this Acer AX1700-U3700A computer has those two video outputs,... » Read More Dual Monitors, Anyone? I have two monitors (one VGA, one DVI) that worked on my previous computer for dual monitor setup. Even though this Acer AX1700-U3700A computer has those two video outputs, only the DVI monitor displays. The NVidia control panel recognizes only the one monitor. Has anyone had success getting two to work?UPDATE: In the cardboard box that your AX1700 computer came in is an adapter card with a short cord and plug and an analog video socket. Open computer case (voids warranty), remove modem card located under NVidia card, install adapter card, plug short cable into NVidia card. Now your second monitor will work! Note: one monitor must be DVI and the other analog. « Show Less
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I have been running dual monitors on mine for over a year now and have had no problems with it at all.I did not add any video cards or extras at all. Just plugged them in and set them for main and secondary monitors.
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I'm having the same problem. Acer says that if you add an adapter card, the onboard adapter is disabled. This is ridiculous. I have since bought a dual monitor invidia card and it won't show two monitors either. The Acer must be blocking it somehow. To boot, Acer's support sucks, It's going back where I bought it, right now.
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There is a VGA, HDNI and DVI port on the back graphics card. We are only driving a 26' monitor, so I don't know if it drive multiple monitors.
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Hi, This card will support two monitors simultaneously, as stated in the manual. Given that, I don't really see why you would want to drive one monitor from the card and one from the motherboard - using system RAM rather than dedicated graphics RAM. However, if the latter is what you wanted to do, I can't think why that would not work. But, it's a great card at a bargain price so why not drive two monitors from it?
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No. The Nvidia drivers only allow you to use 2 monitors at a single time with this card. I tried to use 3 monitors using the Windows interface and then again with the Nvidia driver interface. The Windows interface doesn't allow you to use 3 monitors but doesn't tell you why. The Nvidia interface specifically tells you that this card only supports 2 video outputs.
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Look to see if your computer has two outputs. Some computers have an integrated video card or a modular one. The outputs are from the video card. Basically to support dual monitors you must have dual outputs like two DVI, HDMI, VGA, Display Port. You can also use adapters to convert the signal from one source to the next. Google "Video outputs" and you will see the different outputs I am talking about. Hope this helps. Call me if you need to talk. Mike Tel 305-788-1269
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Yes. The computer comes with a NVIDIA GTX 650, which has three display connectors: One Dual Link DVI-I, One Dual Link DVI-D, One Mini HDMI. I used a converter cable (?) to convert one of the DVI connectors to VGA, and the other DVI connector to another monitor. Note that you must connect to the graphics card display connector, not the integrated graphics card display connector (eg. the standard size HDMI port).
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Yes, this graphics card supports dual-monitors. Two options for the HDMI: Mini-HDMI (port on card) to HDMI patch cable or a DVI-D to HDMI patch cable. I personally would do a DVI-D to HDMI patch cable as they are more readily available but either would work.Nothing else would be needed, i.e. no adapters (not even sure what an adapter would be for)I'm currently running dual 23-inch monitors with DVI-D connections at 1920x1080. Movies, video games, etc look great and are a big improvement from the on-board graphics card that comes on a off-the-shelf desktop PC.
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i have the same CPU that you have. I use Intel (on chip) graphics with 1 monitor thru DVI. I do not have a graphics card. I verified that if I switch my monitor over to its HDMI input, it is receiving signal from the mother board HDMI port. This would imply that you can drive 2 monitors thru onboard chipset graphics (without having any graphics card). Of course you will need minor changes in the operating system control panel screen settings.
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Is it both vga ports or just one if its just one try the other when the factory sends these computer out they usually disable one of the vga ports or you could try using dvi or hdmi for a solution hope i helped srry if i didnt
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Hi, that shoud be work, but probably you need a second graphic controller. Or you have a graphic controller the can controled two high resolution screens. The have DVI-D interface only! I use him on my laptop with adaptor DVI-D to Display port. (With USB power supply) Its working fine.
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You already have one monitor hooked up via HDMI/DVI, then probably you will have just an analog VGA port available. If that is the case then you have no choice but connect up the other monitor using the VGA port. The VGA cable should come with your monitor, so you won't need to buy an adapter or cable.
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I have never seen computer monitors enter into a duel...they have a hard time walking 20 paces :) However, the built in "NVIDIA GeForce GTX 645" can output to up to 4 displays (spanning 3 together plus a separate accessory display): 1 HDMI port, 1 Displayport, 1 DVI-I and one DVI-D, so you will need to combine these available outputs.
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I believe the answer is indeed no. Don't have the technical terms at my fingertips, however I've been running lots of monitors with various graphics cards for years. In the end it seems to always comes down to the number of GPU's when running HDMI, DVI, or even older VGA monitors. I believe there is a technical limitation that you can only run 2 HDMI/DVI/VGA monitors per GPU. Since this only has 1 GPU, you can only run 2 non-DP monitors. You could however, run 2 HDMI and then more DP monitors at the same time. For me I just used all DP monitors and it has been working great for business apps etc. I believe the answer is indeed no. Don't have the technical terms at my fingertips, however I've been running lots of monitors with various graphics cards for years. In the end it seems to always comes down to the number of GPU's when running HDMI, DVI, or even older VGA monitors. I believe there is a technical limitation that you can only run 2 HDMI/DVI/VGA monitors per GPU. Since this only has 1 GPU, you can only run 2 non-DP monitors. You could however, run 2 HDMI and then more DP monitors at the same time. For me I just used all DP monitors and it has been working great for business... » Read More I believe the answer is indeed no. Don't have the technical terms at my fingertips, however I've been running lots of monitors with various graphics cards for years. In the end it seems to always comes down to the number of GPU's when running HDMI, DVI, or even older VGA monitors. I believe there is a technical limitation that you can only run 2 HDMI/DVI/VGA monitors per GPU. Since this only has 1 GPU, you can only run 2 non-DP monitors. You could however, run 2 HDMI and then more DP monitors at the same time. For me I just used all DP monitors and it has been working great for business apps etc. « Show Less
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oh yeah. and it's awesome - currently have 2 monitors on an arm, and 2 of these on the desk in front of each. apparently my video card will take another one... just trying to figure out where it would go! i had to use a different USB on my computer than the one i initially tried, possibly a power issue as noted in the other answer
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On this one I believe we just installed it and it worked - we have a few different multi monitor cards - the ones that have one plug with two monitor ends are usually plug & play
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I read somewhere that, it supports a resolution of 2560x1600. so it should support dual monitors if the total resolutions falls under this. I'm using nVidia GPU, so I never tried the onboard hdmi or DVI.
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This unit comes with the NVIDIA GForce. There are 3 connections on the video card; VGA, DVI and HDMI. I know it handles two monitors. I believe with most video cards in this price range you can use only two of the three connections simultaneously.