Can I connect dual monitors one to vga, other to hdmi?

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2014-07
  • Astro Jes

    I am planning to set a dual monitor setup. I am on a laptop with i3 3rd gen 1.8 GHz 3217u, 2GB of Intel graphics 4000 HD, 4gb of ram. So can I connect one monitor to the HDMI port and the other to the VGA port. Is it possible.

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  • Andreas Hartmann

    According to Intel ( http://www.intel.com/support/graphics/sb/CS-031040.htm ) your Graphics chip supports up to three monitors, however you haven't given any further information on your system and intel claims that support for multiple displays needs to be given by 'your computer's configuration' to work. You should particularly check your mainboard's documentation to be absolutely sure.


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  • Somebody still uses you MS-DOS

    I have a HP dv9830us laptop. It has a vga-out and a hdmi-out port.

    I want to know if it's possible to use 3 devices, each one with different displays, using just one graphic card - NVIDIA GeForce 8600M GS? (Original, vga with an external monitor and hdmi with a full hd tv). Where I can find this kind of information?

    If not possible, I would like to know alternatives like:

    • "Usb" solutions to be possible to connect to the external lcd or to a TV. The TV should be flawless, but the second monitor can have slow response times; (I've found some Usb Video adapters, do these units really work?)
    • Cheap PCMCIA video cards to be possible to connect to an external monitor, so I would use the hdmi with the tv and this second video card to output to another monitor.

    I'm using Windows 7 and Ubuntu 10.04. Is this possible in both systems?


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  • davr

    Both Windows and Linux support 3 displays just fine. As for if your hardware supports it, my guess is that it is unlikely, especially on a laptop. Probably to save on costs it only supports a single external display, and not both. Of course you could always try, if it doesn't work, you've only lost $5 to buy the cable (assuming you don't already have one, and you don't buy it from some ripoff place like BestBuy)