Gredival
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Do to a limitation of "how many" and "what types of cables/adapters" I have on hand, I'm trying to setup the integrated GPU to be used along side my Dedicated PCI express card, to push a secondary monitor.
The 2 GPu's are a R9 280x and the onboard is a Radeon 3000 series integrated.
Now...the motherboards BIOS actually allows me to enable the onboard GPU even when a dedicated card is plugged in, even stating in the BIOS help menu "enable onboard GPU to be used with a dedicated ATi GPU".
Windows recognizes the onboard GPU in device manager. The device is listed below my dedicated GPU under display adapters. It's titled as Radeon 3000 Series, and NOT showing the yellow exclamation. But under properties, it states no drivers installed for this device. and from what I can tell, not even the "Basic" microsoft video drivers are installed.
The monitor itself remains black screen, and tells me no signal etc.
I am aware that these 2 gpu's have completely different Driver versions. I'm running the lates 6.4.2 hotfix on my 280x, while the last supported version for the 3000 series is Catalyst 13.1 and 13.4Beta(which I downloaded both)
I did manage to manually install the Drivers for the 3000 series after extracting the ATi package to my HDD and updated drivers through device manager (browse for file on my computer yadda yadda)
Once those installed. I had picture on the second monitor, and while it wasnt a clone of the first desktop. It strangely contained it's own startmenu and taskbar icons like the main monitor. Yet I could drag and drop folders and icons from one screen to the next. BUT....there were problems.
I could'nt open the Radeon crimson software, the Aditional Radeon Settings Window as well as, I couldnt access start menu, open windows settings, and a few other major annoyances. It also forced my Main screens resolution from 1920x1080 down to the default res of the second monitor...1600x900. But like I stated above, I couldn't open any windows to any type of system settings. To set it back.
My assumption is the architecture between the 2 GPU's is too different and with 2 different drivers, I'm not going to get this actually working. Perhaps I'm missing something and someone might be able to shed some light on the situation.
My system specs are as follows
Windows 10 Pro Preview 14332
MOBO: Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 Rev.6
RAM: 16GB
GPU:R9 280x
Integrated GPU: radeon 3000 series
Let me know if you need any more info. And thanks to any help.
The 2 GPu's are a R9 280x and the onboard is a Radeon 3000 series integrated.
Now...the motherboards BIOS actually allows me to enable the onboard GPU even when a dedicated card is plugged in, even stating in the BIOS help menu "enable onboard GPU to be used with a dedicated ATi GPU".
Windows recognizes the onboard GPU in device manager. The device is listed below my dedicated GPU under display adapters. It's titled as Radeon 3000 Series, and NOT showing the yellow exclamation. But under properties, it states no drivers installed for this device. and from what I can tell, not even the "Basic" microsoft video drivers are installed.
The monitor itself remains black screen, and tells me no signal etc.
I am aware that these 2 gpu's have completely different Driver versions. I'm running the lates 6.4.2 hotfix on my 280x, while the last supported version for the 3000 series is Catalyst 13.1 and 13.4Beta(which I downloaded both)
I did manage to manually install the Drivers for the 3000 series after extracting the ATi package to my HDD and updated drivers through device manager (browse for file on my computer yadda yadda)
Once those installed. I had picture on the second monitor, and while it wasnt a clone of the first desktop. It strangely contained it's own startmenu and taskbar icons like the main monitor. Yet I could drag and drop folders and icons from one screen to the next. BUT....there were problems.
I could'nt open the Radeon crimson software, the Aditional Radeon Settings Window as well as, I couldnt access start menu, open windows settings, and a few other major annoyances. It also forced my Main screens resolution from 1920x1080 down to the default res of the second monitor...1600x900. But like I stated above, I couldn't open any windows to any type of system settings. To set it back.
My assumption is the architecture between the 2 GPU's is too different and with 2 different drivers, I'm not going to get this actually working. Perhaps I'm missing something and someone might be able to shed some light on the situation.
My system specs are as follows
Windows 10 Pro Preview 14332
MOBO: Gigabyte 78LMT-USB3 Rev.6
RAM: 16GB
GPU:R9 280x
Integrated GPU: radeon 3000 series
Let me know if you need any more info. And thanks to any help.