Need desperate Help with 3 monitors.

[holyindian]

Hi All,

This is my Office setup, its an Lenovo ThinkStation. Its on Windows 7, i7 4770 Haswell. Mainboard is a Lenovo Sharkbay. Graphic card is a NVIDIA® Quadro® 410
Now, I am trying to connect three monitors, and i have been able to make two monitors work perfectly well.
One of the Monitor is connected using the DisplayPort, the other one uses a DVI Port.
I have the third one connected with a VGA Cable. And its not working. I cannot see them either in the Intels default resolution manager, neither on the Nividia's Control Panel.

The WorkStation has two additional DisplayPorts, Its spare and unused right now. I dont have a spare DisplayPort cable though, I am wondering if i should invest in the cable or not? If Attaching the third Display with the DisplayPort will work?
I cannot add a high end internal GPU, as it being the company's hardware.
The max i can do is a external option, but not an expensive one.
However if connecting the third monitor with the DisplayPort works, that be the best option.
Please guide, do u think my GPU (NVIDIA® Quadro® 410) would support 3 monitors?

Here is the specs on the workstation.
http://www.intel.com/content/dam/www/public/us/en/documents/guides/performance-xeon-e3-1200-hd-graphics-p4000-guide.pdf

 

[Boss Cat Johnson]

That card only supports a max of 2 monitors per card. You may be able to get the third to work by plugging it into the vga header on the motherboard if it has one. Otherwise i would look into an external option like this.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/StarTech-com-External-Monitor-1920x1200-USB32VGAES/dp/B00H91BRZU/ref=dp_ob_title_hi

 

[holyindian]

Thanks for your reply. but the tech specs page says that the workstation can display 3 monitors. am i missing something?

 

[Boss Cat Johnson]

I was talking about the card (Quadro 410) only supports 2 displays max. You should be able to use the built in graphics along side the Quadro 410 and that should solve your problem. I have seen it done on an older Core i5 with a Nvidia GeForce 550ti where a 3rd display was plugged into the motherboard vga header. Shouldnt be any different on a Xeon and should just be plug an play. Here is a cheap Display Port cable if you want to try it.

Link: http://www.amazon.com/Cable-Matters%C2%AE-Gold-Plated-DisplayPort/dp/B005H3Q59U/ref=sr_1_1?s=pc&ie=UTF8&qid=1429916933&sr=1-1&keywords=display+port+cable