Second monitor won't light up

[simx]

hey,

 

when i built my pc i purchased the Asus VE247 because my old monitor doesn't have Full HD. Now i want two you this monitor as my secondary monitor (not for gaming). Btw the old monitor is a HP LE2201w and it only has dvi input that's why i have to hook it up to my mbo instead of my GPU (GTX 770). And altough my pc has detected and it says it's running with intel graphics and it's powered on it won't light up and just stays black. anyone know how to fix this?

 

simx

[Joshyy]

 

 

 why i have to hook it up to my mbo instead of my

 

There is your issue, the onboard DVI, HDMI, VGA, DP ports are disabled when you plug a Graphics card in and no output will be displayed from them, you'll need to plug it into the GPU

[aidenrelkoff]

you cant run a monitor off of the mobo, and then another off of the gpu. unless your doing the APU+low end gpu thing that AMD is using. for your set up, unfortunately, you cant do what you want to do. u need to run both monitors off of either the gpu or the mobo. So i recommend getting some $7 adapters that can change hdmi to DVI and vice versa.

[simx]

ok thanks

[Osiris199]

you cant run a monitor off of the mobo, and then another off of the gpu. unless your doing the APU+low end gpu thing that AMD is using. for your set up, unfortunately, you cant do what you want to do. u need to run both monitors off of either the gpu or the mobo. So i recommend getting some $7 adapters that can change hdmi to DVI and vice versa.

I could do both actually. For months I used triple screen on my HD 6950, now my crossfire 290's, and a single monitor off the sandy bridge chipset as extended desktop.

 

What I don't understand is why the old monitor can't be connected to the GPU along with the new one? a GTX 770 has dual DVI connectors like any modern graphics card I thought.