Second screen not working after updating BIOS

[Cyberspirit]

Hey, I just updated the BIOS of my Asus Z170A and, for some reason, the backup I made of the old settings couldn't be loaded so, I went ahead and set things back as they were manually. 

 

After that I restarted my PC and for some reason the second screen is not being recognized at all by windows. 

 

I'm using the on board graphics because my video card doesn't have the connector this old monitor uses. 

 

I tried unplugging it first but that didn't help so,  I restarted my PC and looked through the BIOS to see if there's any setting that could cause this but, I found nothing.

[paddy-stone]

3 minutes ago, Cyberspirit said:

Hey, I just updated the BIOS of my Asus Z170A and, for some reason, the backup I made of the old settings couldn't be loaded so, I went ahead and set things back as they were manually. 

 

After that I restarted my PC and for some reason the second screen is not being recognized at all by windows. 

 

I'm using the on board graphics because my video card doesn't have the connector this old monitor uses. 

 

I tried unplugging it first but that didn't help so,  I restarted my PC and looked through the BIOS to see if there's any setting that could cause this but, I found nothing.

IIRC there should be an option for mutli-monitor support in the bios... unless I am remembering a different board to the z170 I had (I don't have it anymore to check for you), and the intel board I do have working right now is in my mining rig, so can't check that for you either. Pretty sure there is an option in the bios though.

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

you need to set the iGPU to "enabled".. otherwise it'll turn it off because it detects a pci-e gpu. 

[Cyberspirit]

2 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

you need to set the iGPU to "enabled".. otherwise it'll turn it off because it detects a pci-e gpu. 

Any idea where that could be?

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, Cyberspirit said:

Any idea where that could be?

on my motherboard it's in the chipset settings in the bios.. but of course every mobo is different. 

[Cyberspirit]

21 minutes ago, firelighter487 said:

you need to set the iGPU to "enabled".. otherwise it'll turn it off because it detects a pci-e gpu. 

25 minutes ago, paddy-stone said:

IIRC there should be an option for mutli-monitor support in the bios... unless I am remembering a different board to the z170 I had (I don't have it anymore to check for you), and the intel board I do have working right now is in my mining rig, so can't check that for you either. Pretty sure there is an option in the bios though.

Thanks, I found it under Advanced / System Agent (SA) configuration / Graphics configuration.

Also, I had to shut it down for a minute because for some reason things weren't as snappy as before.

Now it seems fine luckily.

 

Not sure if that's a common thing after updating BIOS and applying a lot of new settings in there just thought I'd mention that.

Again, thanks for helping.  

[Ashley MLP Fangirl]

1 minute ago, Cyberspirit said:

Again, thanks for helping.  

anytime