Second Monitor "No VGA Cable"

[supermantroll]

Hello to whom ever may be reading this. I'm currently having a problem with my second monitor, this monitor had no issues while running dual monitors on my other PC, but since I got a new one I haven't tried dual monitors and I just recently tried hooking the second one into my computer. Ok, so the monitor that reads "No VGA Cable" is a Dell D2015H and its a VGA Monitor, since my computer doesn't support VGA I had to get an adapter https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B00G9UWP94/ref=oh_aui_detailpage_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

After hooking all that in, I power on the monitor and it gives me this floating box. I have went into my NVIDIA Control Panel. And the PC Recognizes the monitor and I'm able to move the cursor over to the second monitor. But I can't see what is on the monitor, so that is the issue that I'm having. If you need any more information please ask, Thanks in advance!

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Well, I'm going to make a few assumptions - first is that you have an Nvidia card which might have DVI-D (no analog), display port, and hdmi.

How is the first monitor hooked up? Does it use the DVI port? The HDMI port? The display port? Is it hooked to the discrete graphics card?

On the discrete graphics card, what types of ports does it have?

 

[supermantroll]

Yes, I do have a MSI Geforce 1060 3GB and my main monitor is connected to the GPU through a DVI-D to DVI-D cable. Straight to the DVI-D Port on the GPU and there is a HDMI port that I'm plugging it into.

And I'm not to familiar with what a Discrete Graphics card is, I'd assume it is the ports on the motherboard. There is a DVI-D Port and a HDMI port. I tried plugging the adapter into both the HDMI port on the Motherboard and on the GPU. Still no luck.

 

[Rookie_MIB]

Yes, I do have a MSI Geforce 1060 3GB and my main monitor is connected to the GPU through a DVI-D to DVI-D cable. Straight to the DVI-D Port on the GPU and there is a HDMI port that I'm plugging it into.

And I'm not to familiar with what a Discrete Graphics card is, I'd assume it is the ports on the motherboard. There is a DVI-D Port and a HDMI port. I tried plugging the adapter into both the HDMI port on the Motherboard and on the GPU. Still no luck.

Discrete graphics is an add-on card - in your case the MSI GTX 1060 card. Integrated graphics is on the CPU.

Now, have you enabled multi-monitor through the software (ie: through the Windows display properties?) The default is that it only enables ONE monitor even when two are available until you explicitly turn it on.

I'm assuming Windows 10.

Try going to Control Panel, Display, on the right side there will be 'Project to a Second Screen', then tell it to 'extend' - that should enable dual monitor mode.