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Need help setting up 3 monitors on 1 PC

Discussion in 'PC hardware help' started by Jeff11103, Jul 8, 2013.

  1. Jeff11103

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    I'm sort of back to square one. I can display 2 monitors at the same time but not 3.

    I contacted HIS Digital after having difficulty getting the 3rd monitor to display. They said the card is not capable of displaying 3 monitors at once. The reason they gave was "4350 AGP does not support Eyefinity on 3 monitors.
    Eyefinity needs a DisplayPort / Mini DisplayPort output."

    Can you give me some guidance on what's the best way to solve my problem? Should I look for a new card that can handle 3 monitors? Should I keep the card I bought and get a pci card for the 3rd monitor?

    DDP you mentioned earlier that you had an AGP card that supports 3 monitors. Is that card for sale? Would it have the same problem running 3 monitors at once as the HIS card?
     
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    my agp card has the 3 video outputs, vga, s-video & dvi so s-video might be a problem for you besides the fact i'm in canada & i think you are in the states. will have to see if i can output 3 monitors on my win7 computer using a hd 6450 card that has vga, dvi & hdmi.
     
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    For the s-video I could just get an s-video to VGA cord right? Yes I'm in the states.

    I really appreciate you looking into seeing if you can get 3 monitors displayed using your hd 6450.

    Thanks.
     
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    Thanks for the links. Very informative.

    I'm going to see if I can get a pci card for the 3rd monitor.


     
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    Since the GPU on the HIS card is Radeon should I get a PCI card that is Radeon as well? Or is it ok to get a PCI card with an Nvidia GPU?

    Should I also try to get a PCI card with 512 MB of memory?


    You mentioned earlier that Windows 32 bit OS are only capable of supporting 3.25-3.5 GB of RAM. Is this for the memory sticks only or is for the total system memory? For example my PC has 3 X 1 GB sticks of RAM and the 512 MB of memory from the HIS graphics card for a total of 3.5 GB.

    So if I were to get a PCI card with 512 MB of memory then I would need to replace a 1 GB stick of RAM with a 512 MB stick of RAM to keep it at a total of 3.5 GB. Is that right?
     
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    i don't know. try another radeon unless you find a nvidia 1st.
     
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    Can you re-read my previous post. I was editing it right around when you last replied. I add a few more questions.

    Thanks.
     
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    just the memory sticks because if you got a 4gig videocard then you won't have any memory for windows to use.
     

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