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December 10th, 2019 02:00

Vostro 470, Multi Monitor

Hallo Community,

until yet I worked on my DELL Vostro 470 with two Monitors. Both Monitors are attached to an addtional graphic-card built in, in the system.

=> NVIDIA GeForce GT 610.
-> The first monitor ist attached via HDMI to the NVIDIA GeForce
-> The second monitor ist attached via VGA to the NVIDIA GeForce

Today I want to use a third monitor. I attached a third Monitor via VGA to the internal grahikcard.

But after the reboot of the system the third monitor keeps black.
After some researchwork I found that i have to activate the multimonitorsupport in the bios to activate the internal gaphik.
After doing that the VGA Monitor still keeps black after booting.

Having a look to the device manager (Win7 64 prof) i saw that there is no internal grahic-card listed
in the grahic-card-section. Only the NVIDIA (and a virtual card for VMWare) is shown.

Doing some additional researchwork in the www I found that a newer BIOS is avaiable. So I upgraded
the BIOS to latest Version "A14" from 2018.

But this doesn't solve the problem too.

Now I'm at the end of my ideas - Can somebody help me please - does someone hat an idea or a solution?

 

Thanks a lot,
regards robert

*Sorry for my english - I'm german!

 

 

 

 

 

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December 10th, 2019 08:00

You cannot use the onboard graphics when you have a separate video card. The Nvidia card automatically disables the onboard graphics. 

More importantly--you should not be running windows 7 since it will not have any security updates from Microsoft in just a few weeks. It is approaching End of Life and will not be safe to use on the Internet. You should upgrade to windows 10 now.

https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/microsoft-365/windows/end-of-windows-7-support

December 12th, 2019 02:00

Thanks,

I think not the Nvidia card disables the onboard graphis. I's done by the BIOS.

On my other PCs (at home) it works fine to use both onboard- and graphiccard-Monitors. I think it's a problem of a manufaturer's "extension" of the BIOS. Or it's a bug ....

 

Thanks for the grat information that windows support 7 is End-Of-Live. Imagine i don't know it until yet.

 

Regard s

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