Desktops & All-In-Ones

[kingwhopper]

Hi,

i am running an acer aspire x3300 and i want to have extended display. i recently purchased a separate graphics card so i could run 1 monitor on the graphics card and the other monitor on the integrated GPU (geforce 9200). the problem is, everytime i physically install the graphics card, the integrated GPU doesnt work. i tried working on the BIOS, but there is no option for a secondary GPU. any one have any information on this?

[vvprad]

There are three possibilities.

1. Bad PCI slot

2. New video card might not be compatible

3. Bad video card

If you have a different video card, you may install it on the same PCI slot and check if it works. (if it works, you can confirm the PCI slot is fine).

If the computer does not detect any video card, it might be an issue with the PCI slot. Contact computer manufacturer to get the computer repaired.

[kingwhopper]

Hi Vvprad,

thanks for the quick response.

i wanted to address the things you said in your post. first, i dont think its a bad PCI slot nor a bad video card because when i put the card into the motherboard, and run it as the main monitor, it works. the problem is that the integrated video card shuts down when i am running the new video card (radeon HD 5450). also, i believe that the radeon does support extended display capability.

a few questions:

do you think that the integrated graphics card supports extended display or do you think i definitely need a separate graphics card.

2. is it even possible to run extended display using an integrated graphics card and a separate graphics card? any ideas how to do this?

3. how can i run extended display on the HD 5450? there are 3 ports (VGA, HDMI, DVI). i currently have 2 VGA monitors but for the sake of substituting one of the VGA monitors with an HDMI one, i can do that.

thanks in advanced.

[vvprad]

When you install a external video card in a PCI slot, the onboard video card will be disabled automatically. That's the reason why the video shuts down. There is no option to use the onboard video card and the add on card at the same time, nor can you extend the displays using both.