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Tried both ways. The setting doesn't even exist if there is no GPU installed. Just verified over video chat. That option isn't even there with onboard video, which makes me believe that it should support a GPU+iGPU if that option only comes up when a GPU is installed, no?

He took out the GPU and tried to power on using only onboard video with a single monitor. He's getting no signal. I don't know what to suggest. He tried flushing the power out by uplugging/holding power for 30 secs He's saying he tried all 4 monitors and none will boot into BIOS through onboard. Any ideas? CMOS was also removed

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This is what he sent me. His BIOS has it set to "disabled" and he can't enable it. I think it may be because he is currently booted into BIOS and the display is using the GPU. Does that mean he needs to unplug all the monitors, and hook up only one to the MOBO directly and boot into BIOS? Will this option be available then, or is that not how this works? ec771613-581c-4219-946d-177a0a37b63a.jfif

I think the problem with his build is that it's very old. He was using the iGPU before I shipped him that 750 over because I felt pity. Not sure if he has any extra slots left on his old mobo, but I will definitely ask and that's something to consider. Will it play nice with the current 750 driver-wise? .... he plays plants vs zombies on his PC. I'm not too worried.

Right, that's what I meant. Display adapter property settings > detect display, only those 3 GPU ones are detected. I'll have him check the iGPU option. If no such option exists, is he SOL?

Okay, that's a good point.... I will ask him to check. I'm 500 miles away so I will need to walk him through this part. It's an old mobo, so I hope this setting exists.

Windows 10, and the 4th display does not show if it's plugged in via onboard, but will boot and display if the 3 video card displays are disconnected.

A10-7700k R7 Nvidia PNY GTX 750 Friend has 4 monitors, 3 of which are plugged into the GPU and work very well. That last one is plugged into the motherboard, but won't display. I fear it's because Nvidia and AMD won't play nice with each other like this, but I have gotten multiple monitor setups working like this in the past (albeit, with newer hardware) Drivers are installed for both the a10 chip (I believe, there is no r7 a10 driver for that CPU??) I couldn't find it on the AMD site, and auto-detect didn't work... as usual. Any advice? Would like to have my friend be able to use all 4 monitors without pulling out the GPU. Thanks

Alright, and what motherboard would that be? The crosshair extreme is apparently the highest end Ryzen x370 motherboard. Also, does that mean the bottommost pcie slot can be used to run the 2nd GPU since it's not sharing any lanes with anything?

What do you mean they recently "gone up"? DDR4 is dirt cheap. I've never seen them this low for half a decade now. Which RAM prices are you talking about?

The product page claims "2-way SLI or 3-way Crossfire." And also boasts about: Powered by AMD® Ryzen™ AM4 and 7th generation Athlon™ processors to maximize connectivity and speed with Dual NVMe M.2, onboard 802.11AC WIFI, front panel USB 3.1 and gigabit LAN I only have two Vega cards, so 2-way crossfire it is then! And I have two NVMe's, so I set those up after some frustration with the BIOS updates on this board. But now both NVMe's work, and I'm happy. However, after installing the 2nd M.2 drive, my 2nd Vega no longer shows up in Windows or BIOS. 1st Vega is running at x4 currently, while it used to be x8 and x4 for crossfire previously. I have no idea which settings to modify to have both my Vegas show up in BIOS, while being able to use both M.2 drives as well. I have no other SATA devices, or PCIE cards connected. I should be able to get this to work, IIRC the x370 provides 20 lanes, 4 of which go to 1st GPU, and 4+4 of which go to the NVMe's. That leaves 8 lanes, more than enough to run one more graphics card.... so why can't I configure it this way? Unless I'm mistaken and NVMe's actually take 8 lanes each? If it's not possible to have a 2nd or 3rd GPU if you use both M.2 slots... should the product page *disclose that? Shouldn't this be mentioned in the manual? It's as if running a setup like mine has never occurred to anyone at Asus. The only thing the manual says is that the 2nd m.2 slot shares lanes with the 2nd GPU. But that's shares and not "completely takes all the lanes away from your 2nd GPU." V'been badgering this out for a week now with no progress. Help? Manual screenshots below if useful.

Can't seem to find any instructions on how to do this. 2nd GPU is not showing up under device manager, but it is taking power. I guess either: 1. Crossfire/Dual GPU setup is not possible with a populated 2nd m.2 slot 2. I need to weak setting in my bios and I don't know where to begin without screwing up, can't find a guide for it and the manual doesn't give instructions. How would I look this up? Attached pics are what the manual says. Is this good or bad news in regards to a dual GPU setup? x16/x8/x4 etc. doesn't matter as long as both GPU's "work" with windows. Highlighted are the PCIE/M.2 slots I have populated. Sadly, I cannot fit my 2nd GPU in the bottom-most PCIE slot. Case only provides one I/O bracket of room, and GPU takes two.

1. If Microsoft word refused to open documents if they weren't saved on the same drive, and I need to be able to open them, then I'd consider that part of the same "installation" size since there's no way around it. Either way sure, I couldn't have worded that better but in reality if a software + working files = X drive space, then I still need X drive space no matter what. 2. Solidworks does not support Corona Renderer, no substance/marvelous designer/unreal pipeline, and afaik there's no way to create the models and animations I need. I'm not an engineer. Even if it was capable of handling my current pipeline, it would involve spending several dozen hours relearning that software, and converting all my working files to whatever extension Solidworks supports, if that's even possible at all. I can't even get 3DS Max to accept Maya files, and they're both owned by Autodesk. 3. I know. I spent $180 each for four 256gb SSD's to raid0 back in... 2013? That only gave me 1TB for $800 after taxes. I think I'm still paying interest on that. The 660p's are by no means crappy drives. Excellent bang for the buck, and since I did in fact get the raid to work on these nvme drives after updating my stubborn motherboard, I am getting 2,239 MB/s sequential speeds. Sure I don't expect it to be this fast 100% of the time, but that's still a huge upgrade from the 731 MB/s on average I was getting before raid0, and worth it to me. 4. No worries there. I run full backups every other day, and all my file history is copied over to google drive. I have about 13TB of files saved there, but again, there's no way I can install software and run it from gDrive so I have to have a large enough "disk" off the cloud. Another option would have to been to not bother with the raid array and just boot off the 2 nvme drives separately when I needed to run specific software installed on said drive, but that's a huge nuisance. I can't think of any other solution that doesn't involve buying new hardware. I am however running into issues with my GPU's now, since the 2nd slot if sharing bandwidth with the 2nd M.2 drive, so I guess I have to make a new thread about that? The motherboard manual is completely useless, or I am just dumb. Or both.

Well maybe not individually, but together all of my software easily exceeds 1.5 terabytes. Working files, textures, other directiories, etc. are another 1-2 terabytes. Then there's my game that's just over 1TB in size after mods, and that's only one game. It takes 6-7 hours to load currently on my SSD raid 0 array, can't imagine loading times on a single SSD. "You should look into fixing your autodesk so that you can work on files on other drives, because that's very basic functionality." "Clean install windows and install your software properly on the same drive and it will work." Hahahaha...ha.. I really hope you say this only because you've never worked with autodesk products. Their forums are filled to the brim with users having the absolute most mundane issues that are unresolvable. You have to jump through freaking hoops just to launch their software. Once you are able to start it up and work in it, you don't touch it!! Or you'll end up in an endless loop of troubleshooting again. It is impossible to do a "clean" install, as their software blocks you from removing it 100%. There are always leftover registry entries and background apps that even Revo can't get rid of. "Second, just buy a 4TB or 8TB SSD as your primary C drive and problem solved." > just buy > buy There's my problem. A decent 4TB one is in the ~$500 range, and an 8TB double that. That's more than the cost of my entire PC + peripherals. The whole reason I got these two nvme drives is because they were super cheap! Much cheaper than an SSD of the same size. I don't want to do it the hard way, but I have two nvme drives, and a motherboard that supposedly supports nvme raid. I'd like to work with what I already have before going out and getting new hardware, wish me luck.