I would like to have four or more simultaneously working monitors on my desktop. Unfortunately, I have an HP Pavilion HPE, intel i7. When I bought this from Best Buy, I was told that I could hook up five monitors to it and they would all work independently. I soon found out this wasn't the case. It had two graphics cards installed from the factory, but the initial GC was by-passed when the second one was installed. I have been using an external graphics card through a USB, but found it slower and somewhat annoying to have to reset my monitors every time I turned it back on. Now, I just got it back from BB, after having a new GC installed with two DVI and had them split, which I was told to allow me to have four independent monitors, not the case. Now, I have two monitors with each one stretch across two monitors. I can live with this but, I would still like it to work the way it make sense to me. What can I do to make it so I can have four independently working monitors?
Are the plugs really DVI or could the be a LFH 59 plug? that should allow for 4 seperate screens, and I did try a really old quadro card once with dual LFH59 outputs that I ran 3 screens on, all showed as independant screens to windows and I never suffered from the things being stretched across 2 monitors problem that I have seen on some bizzarro old matrox cards back in the day.
I would suggest update the drivers totally and install all the manufacturer cruftware as well to see if that exposes anymore options to change how the drivers show the monitors to windows.
I wonder why it bypasses the first graphics card? Have you checked the BIOS to see if there are any settings in there. I Have a core i5 setup with the motherboard support 3x monitors and with an 8800GT which supports another 3. I can run monitors off both at the smae time (currently) 3 with no problems.
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