I have connected one monitor to my motherboard and one to the video card,the monitor connected to the motherboard wont even switch itself on.

any ideas?

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A normal behavior for this setup, when an external video output are detected, it will disable the onboard video output, what you need is a video card with dual output, and lucky for you, most do today, even the cheap $30 ATI or nVidia will support twin view.

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A normal behavior for this setup, when an external video output are detected, it will disable the onboard video output, what you need is a video card with dual output, and lucky for you, most do today, even the cheap $30 ATI or nVidia will support twin view.

i have a video card that has both vga and dvi, i will just swap them.

Thank you

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