Trying to connect 2 montiors to computer

[sgorges]

I have a Compaq EVO 510 and a ATI video card with VGA split cable.
When I install the card I do not get feed from either monitor.
I am not the best with this kind of stuff so any help would be great.

 

[sgorges]

One other thing its a AGP type card

 

[vacunita]

We need some more information. Did you have another card installed previous to installing this one? is it still in the computer?

Have you disabled the old card before installing the new one?




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Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[sgorges]

Is a New card how do you disable the onboard video card.?
We don't have another one installed. This is the first one.

 

[vacunita]

You'll need to go into the BIOS, to disable the Onboard video there.

Once its disabled, restart the machine, and it should pick up the new card that was installed and you should get video in at least one monitor. you can then install the drivers for it in Windows, and setup the dual monitor there as well.

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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[sgorges]

We were looking for that in BIOS before I posted this. Where in BIOS is it because we couldn't find it

 

[vacunita]

Well, surely you don't expect me to know the exact layout of your BIOS do you?

What type of BIOS do you have, maybe I can find some documentation that tells me how the menus are set up.

The best i can do is guess it would be in a Display Tab, or maybe a Devices tab? Maybe a Video tab.




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Ignorance is not necessarily Bliss, case in point:
Unknown has caused an Unknown Error on Unknown and must be shutdown to prevent damage to Unknown.

 

[sgorges]

No I didn't expect that. But we couldn't find any tab that went to a display board to disable.

 

[Lemon13]

usally its 2 find under integrated peripherals

 

[clbuck29]

One thing that is being overlooked, when you boot the machine press F8 and there will be a selection for enabling a diplay property ??? Can't remember what it says exactly, but it was something I had to do when installing the same hardware.