Please help

[mahanahunter]

I have just build a really cheap pc and I have 2 monitors that I want to connect up to the computer. The specs are a8 6600, gigabyte f2a88xm-ds2 and the rest doesn't really matter. one monitor is a samsung s20b300b and one is a s20a300b. One is going to be connected by div-d single link and the other vga but when i plug in the vga monitor the screen powers one but doesn't display any image. When i go into the screen resolution in windows it says that the screen is there and working but in real life its not. WHAT IS THE PROBLEM! i am also wanting to connect up another s20b300b by usb but the adapter hasn't arrived in the mail.

 

Thanks

[Jaybird]

check for the correct input settings on the monitor. 

[FoxHound]

Are you connecting both displays to the video card? or is one of them connected to the motherboard?

[bob345]

are you using a dvi to vga adapter by chance?

[mahanahunter]

Are you connecting both displays to the video card? or is one of them connected to the motherboard?

Both are connected to the motherboard

[mahanahunter]

are you using a dvi to vga adapter by chance?

No one is just dvi-d and ther other is vga

[mahanahunter]

I think that it could be faulty vga port on the motherboard 

[dragoon20005]

at the screen resolution page

 

just below the screen resolution drop down menu

 

do you see another drop down menu

 

check if you are able to extend the desktop

[RichardsD]

Are you sure that VGA Monitor works?

 

I would try plugging that into a working PC first.

[mahanahunter]

Are you sure that VGA Monitor works?

 

I would try plugging that into a working PC first.

Yea they all work and i have tried all of them with VGA but none of them work

[Guest DollarPC]

Try connecting the VGA monitor to GPU

[AlwaysFSX]

They sent you back the same board? Does the VGA cable do this on every VGA port or just that one?

[mahanahunter]

Try connecting the VGA monitor to GPU

I dont have a GPU only a APU

[KE2012]

I was under the impression VGA was analogue and USB was digital, so you do have a converter and not simply an adapter right?

 

EDIT: Are am I picking up the wrong side of the stick here?

[adman29]

I dont have a GPU only a APU

Try a different port. Use HDMI or something

[mahanahunter]

They sent you back the same board? Does the VGA cable do this on every VGA port or just that one?

 

No they sent me back a different board and there is only one VGA port and all of the monitors wont work on the VGA

[joester050]

why do you have your graphics plugged in through usb?

[mahanahunter]

I was under the impression VGA was analogue and USB was digital, so you do have a converter and not simply an adapter right?

 

EDIT: Are am I picking up the wrong side of the stick here?

Na it is a converter the I got online for $15 

[mahanahunter]

why do you have your graphics plugged in through usb?

Because i dont have enough money to get a GPU and the motherboard only has VGA and DVI

[KE2012]

Na it is a converter the I got online for $15 

 

Hmm, does your computer recognise that you have a screen plugged into that USB?

[mahanahunter]

Hmm, does your computer recognise that you have a screen plugged into that USB?

Yea it just thinks that it is a monitor but you cant do eyefinity on it though 

[joester050]

youshould have just used a dvi splitter for multiple moniters

 

also i didnt think graphics worked through usb

[mahanahunter]

youshould have just used a dvi splitter for multiple moniters

 

also i didnt think graphics worked through usb

But can you do extended desktops with it.

 

And the usb works fine through usb 3

[KE2012]

Yea it just thinks that it is a monitor but you cant do eyefinity on it though 

 

 

Right, Eyefinity was a massive pain in the bollocks for me aswell when I had my rig hooked up to 3 different display devices. Try disabling one of your monitors through CC and then putting the USB monitor as your secondary / primary, see what that does. (Not in eyefinity, this is just to see if it works outside of EF)

[mahanahunter]

Right, Eyefinity was a massive pain in the bollocks for me aswell when I had my rig hooked up to 3 different display devices. Try disabling one of your monitors through CC and then putting the USB monitor as your secondary / primary, see what that does. (Not in eyefinity, this is just to see if it works outside of EF)

 The USB to VGA works fine it is the standard VGA port on the motherboard that is not working