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I have two main displays, one Samsung and one HP. Both are connected via DVI to my ASUS HD 7850 GPU. Now when I plugged in an external TV with HDMI cable, it turned off my Samsung display. I managed to get it back online but then my HP display was shut down. Does my GPU only support 2 active displays or what is going on?

 

Is there also a way to automatically disable the TV from displays list when I turn it off?

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With eyefinity some aftermarket ones only support 2.

I guess there's no way to go around it?

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I have two main displays, one Samsung and one HP. Both are connected via DVI to my ASUS HD 7850 GPU. Now when I plugged in an external TV with HDMI cable, it turned off my Samsung display. I managed to get it back online but then my HP display was shut down. Does my GPU only support 2 active displays or what is going on?

 

Is there also a way to automatically disable the TV from displays list when I turn it off?

 

Pretty sure to get three monitors you'll need to have at most 2 of them connected via DVI/HDMI.  The third one has to be running off of the displayport port, either natively with a DP cable or with an adapter.

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Pretty sure to get three monitors you'll need to have at most 2 of them connected via DVI/HDMI.  The third one has to be running off of the displayport port, either natively with a DP cable or with an adapter.

This is correct, but it should be noted that using a simple DisplayPort to DVI/HDMI cable still counts as using DVI/HDMI and won't work. You would need a more expensive DispayPort signal converter, not just a simple adapter cable.

VGA would also work fine (with a DVI-I to VGA adapter). You just can't have more than 2 displays via DVI/HDMI.

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You need an active displayport adapter for the third display.

http://www.amazon.com/Cable-DisplayPort-Supporting-Technology-Resolution/dp/B00EDT0072/ref=sr_1_1?s=electronics&ie=UTF8&qid=1448664791&sr=1-1&keywords=active+displayport+to+hdmi

Something like that will work.

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