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[Lucianp]

I just received a new PC for my 72nd birthday.

The motherboard is an ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME B450M-A Rev X.0x which has two video ports, a VGA port and a VDI-D port.

There is also an NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 video card.

On my old PC I use 3 monitors but on this new one I can only use the monitor connected to the video card. The monitors are compatible as I have tried them on the video card.

Having read another similar thread, it appears a video card will over-ride the on board video ports so my question is, is there an option somewhere that bypasses that and allows for three monitors?

Thanks in advance.

[phillpower2]

Some motherboards will allow you to have dual graphics but most will not and you either use the onboard or an add on GPU, your user manual will tell you if your MBs BIOS supports this option, download the manual from here

Also worth mentioning in case you are not aware, the MB may have video ports on it but it depends on what CPU you have fitted as to whether or not they will work, some AMD info here

[Lucianp]

Thank you. I’ll set to and start reading these.

[phillpower2]

You are welcome

If you let us know what processor you have we can check the specs for you.

[Lucianp]

You are welcome

If you let us know what processor you have we can check the specs for you.

It’s 3.60 gigahertz AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core
thanks.

[Lucianp]

I decided to remove the video card and just use the onboard ports but then I ended up with no video at all so it appears something is turned off even when the card is removed.

Right now, I am back to using one monitor on the video card.

Motherboard: ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. PRIME B450M-A Rev X.0x

Processor: 3.60 gigahertz AMD Ryzen 5 3600 6-Core

Video Card: NVIDIA GeForce GT 1030 [Display adapter]

[Lucianp]

Just found out I need to change CPUs to have onboard video. The 3600 CPU does not have any GPU.
Thanks all.

How do I close this thread?

[phillpower2]

Sorry to hear this, the possibility was mentioned in my reply #2 but you found out for yourself before I had a chance to confirm it for you Lucianp

The earlier Ryzen CPUs that had more than four cores did not have integrated graphics and it is something that AMD have only just introduced with the Ryzen 4k series as are shown at the link previously provided.

You are welcome btw