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Your 970 should have 2 DVI ports and a DVI-VGA adapter should have been included when you bought it.

 

Also, I'm pretty sure you can't use the On-board graphics when you have a GPU plugged in (I might be wrong).

You can, you have to look around in your BIOS for the setting though. On ASRock boards it's strangely in the chipset configuration

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Helloooo ;)

 

So today I decided to try to connect an old monitor I had laying around to my computer. The monitor only have a VGA input.

My GPU (Gigabyte GTX 970 G1 Gaming) only have one hdmi and 3 DP outputs and to me it's not worth the money to buy an adapter. So, I decided to connect it to my motherboard instead (Gigabyte D3H-Z77). Now, if I rightclick on my desktop and click resolution it finds my second screen and labels it as "Monitor Connected to: VGA" but it's still black so I don't know what the problem is :/

 

Anyone have any ideas? I've gone into the BIOS and changed some integrated graphical stuff from auto to enabled but that's about it.

 

Thanks in advance!

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Does your cpu has onboard gpu? if yes, is it enabled in your bios?

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Have you installed the Intel HD graphics driver?

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Your 970 should have 2 DVI ports and a DVI-VGA adapter should have been included when you bought it.

 

Also, I'm pretty sure you can't use the On-board graphics when you have a GPU plugged in (I might be wrong).

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Your 970 should have 2 DVI ports and a DVI-VGA adapter should have been included when you bought it.

 

Also, I'm pretty sure you can't use the On-board graphics when you have a GPU plugged in (I might be wrong).

You can, you have to look around in your BIOS for the setting though. On ASRock boards it's strangely in the chipset configuration

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Dell Inspiron 3147

Latitude E5420, Samsung 840 EVO 250gb, 12gb RAM, 1600x900 display

Pentium G3258 @ 3.2GHz | WD Red 2TB x3 in RAID-Z, Crucial MX100 128GB(cache drive) | Fractal Design Node 304 | Gigabyte GA-H97N-WIFI | Crucial Ballistix Sport 8GB | EVGA 500B

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You can, you have to look around in your BIOS for the setting though. On ASRock boards it's strangely in the chipset configuration

Hmmm, okey I'll take a look in there. I was mostly looking in the peripherals section :P

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You can, you have to look around in your BIOS for the setting though. On ASRock boards it's strangely in the chipset configuration

 

Have you installed the Intel HD graphics driver?

 

Update: Problem solved!

I did both of these things, firstly messed around in the BIOS (don't know if this actually helped but sure could have) because I was pretty sure I had the latest drivers.

When I first tried to download the drivers I got an error and had to update through Intel's Driver Update Utility for it to work :P Then, after restarting the computer with the new driver my second monitor is now working.

 

Thanks for the help! :)

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Update: Problem solved!

I did both of these things, firstly messed around in the BIOS (don't know if this actually helped but sure could have) because I was pretty sure I had the latest drivers.

When I first tried to download the drivers I got an error and had to update through Intel's Driver Update Utility for it to work :P Then, after restarting the computer with the new driver my second monitor is now working.

 

Thanks for the help! :)

You are welcome :)

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Dell Inspiron 3147

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mark the topic as solved please

 

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