5th monitor is detected, but not working.

[XxZacksterZxX]

Hi everyone,

I am having trouble connecting my 5th monitor to my PC in my studio. When I go to display settings 4 of them show up correctly, but the 5th one is very small and dimmed. It doesn't let me move it either. When I go to change the multiple displays option to extend, it changes back to "Disconnect this display" and says "The display settings could not be saved. Please try a different combination of display settings."

When I boot the computer, windows actually boots off of the monitor that wont work, and then turns on when I get to the desktop. My GPU is an ASUS Dual 1070 TI.



Here is what my display settings page looks like. #3 is the faulty one.

Here are the settings for #3 as well.

Help!

 

[Glenwing]

NVIDIA graphics cards only support 4 monitors.

 

[drbones8472]

As Glenwing said above, Nvida cards only support 4 monitors. I believe AMD cards only support 4 as well. If you are running an Intel CPU and you do NOT want to buy a 2nd GPU to plug in the 5th monitor then the easiest thing for you to do would be to juts plug in the 5th monitor into your Motherboards video output. It maynot be the best solution, but considering it doesn't sould like you are using this setup fo rgaming, it wouldnt really affect much anyway.

 

[k1114]

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Question from XxZacksterZxX : "Can't connect 5th monitor"

Hi everyone,

I am having trouble connecting my 5th monitor to my PC in my studio. When I go to display settings 4 of them show up correctly, but the 5th one is very small and dimmed. It doesn't let me move it either. When I go to change the multiple displays option to extend, it changes back to "Disconnect this display" and says "The display settings could not be saved. Please try a different combination of display settings." When I boot the computer, windows actually boots off of the monitor that wont work, and then turns on when I get to the desktop. Help!

What graphics card are you using? NVIDIA cards only support a maximum of 4 monitors.

As Glenwing said above, Nvida cards only support 4 monitors. I believe AMD cards only support 4 as well. If you are running an Intel CPU and you do NOT want to buy a 2nd GPU to plug in the 5th monitor then the easiest thing for you to do would be to juts plug in the 5th monitor into your Motherboards video output. It maynot be the best solution, but considering it doesn't sould like you are using this setup fo rgaming, it wouldnt really affect much anyway.

 

[XxZacksterZxX]

As Glenwing said above, Nvida cards only support 4 monitors. I believe AMD cards only support 4 as well. If you are running an Intel CPU and you do NOT want to buy a 2nd GPU to plug in the 5th monitor then the easiest thing for you to do would be to juts plug in the 5th monitor into your Motherboards video output. It maynot be the best solution, but considering it doesn't sould like you are using this setup fo rgaming, it wouldnt really affect much anyway.

Thank you for the reply. That's a bummer, though. I just plugged in the monitor to the motherboard instead and it looks like it's still not working, but I really only need 4 because I'm definitely not buying another 900 dollar card haha.

 

[drbones8472]

In order to use a monitor plugged into a Mobo, You would need to install the drivers for the onboard (CPU) graphics. It could still work. But it would still probably be a little wonky. AND by using the onboard graphics driver you would loose a little bit of your CPU performance.