Using the motherboard hdmi for a third screen? Is it possible?

[ceasefire95]

Hey guys

At the moment i am dual-screening, my main screen on and hdmi and the other on an old school VGA cable. Was wondering if its possible to connect a third screen (my tv) to the hdmi port in the motherboard. At the moment, when i plug an hdmi cable into the motherboard hdmi port it doesnt work whatsoever. After som research i figured out that when you install a graphics card it automatically disables the motherbord hdmi port. So the question is: Is it possible to enable the hdmi port in the motherboard and if so, can you hook up a third screen to the computer through that port?

My motherboard is a Gigabyte Technology Z87-HD3

Hope you can help

 

[giantbucket]

yes.

go into bios and find out how to re-enable the IGPU.

 

[holyprof]

Not sure this it will work, i thought Windows can only use 1 GPU for visual output. SLI/Crossfire doesn't count as 2 GPUs as they work together on the same rendering engine.

 

[ZandaThebigbluePanda]

I have done this using a gtx 980 and the mobo HDMI slot with the i7 4790k igpu

 

[ceasefire95]

yes.

go into bios and find out how to re-enable the IGPU.

I have done this using a gtx 980 and the mobo HDMI slot with the i7 4790k igpu

I got a GTX 770 and an I5 - 4440 CPU, How did you do it ?

 

[giantbucket]

check your mobo manual for the BIOS settings. you might need to make IGPU primary, or at least tell it NOT to disable IGPU when PCIe GPU is installed.

I run onboard from my i5-3570k with 2-3 separate graphics cards, no SLI.

 

[holyprof]

If other posters say the IGPU works with discrete GPU, all you need to do is to enter the BIOS (technically, no longer a BIOS because it's UEFI) system setup and change the Integrated GPU from "Auto" to "On".

I don't know about your Gigabyte Z87 board, but on my Z97X Gaming 3 the graphic settings mode is awful and hides lots of settings so i always use the "classic" mode. Go to the "Peripherals" menu and make sure the "Intel Processor Graphics" is set to "Enabled".

Looking at the Windows Device manager, I see the intel IGPU in the list, but it's not doing anything, not sure how can i tell windows to use it. Probably installing the drivers will do the trick. Don't forget to connect a monitor or windows will ignore any GPUs without a monitor attached.