Solve : Three monitors on a Geforce 680 GTX??

1.	Solve : Three monitors on a Geforce 680 GTX??
Answer» HI, I currently have to SCREENS hooked up to my computer. One screen is the computer LCD monitor and the other is my 42" television. These are both using the HDMI slots on my Geforce 680 GTX and using duplicate monitor in the system display setup in control panel. I have now noticed there is also a dvi connection on the back of the graphics card and I am just wondering if I could use that to hook up another monitor? Also, will I have to change anything in the display settings if I do use it for another monitor? Like I already mentioned it is setup as duplicate screen at the moment on the hdmi, but this is a separate dvi connection. Thanks!!You can use three monitors on the GTX 680, no problem, you may need to go into the Nvidia control panel and configure it but you can certainly use the DVI port for a third monitor. Quote from: Calum on August 26, 2013, 02:01:16 PM You can use three monitors on the GTX 680, no problem, you may need to go into the Nvidia control panel and configure it but you can certainly use the DVI port for a third monitor. Thanks for the reply but this didn't work. When I booted my Pc both monitors connected to dvi both froze and wouldn't boot into windows. The monitor connected to the hdmi was the only one that booted into windows. I think I need to explain what I am trying to do here and hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I have a Dev kit for the Oculus rift, which basically is a Virtual reality headset, but it acts like another monitor to install it. If I never had my television on the second dvi I would'nt have a problem installing the Rift because to install it you are supposed to just connect it the same way and set your display setting as duplicate these displays. MEANING the rift is on one dvi and your pc monitor is on the other. I really don't want to keep having to unscrew my television out of the second dvi slot and have to keep swamping between the rift and television. Can anyone tell me if there is anything out there that makes one dvi into two dvi slots and if there is can I have 3 dvi slots working on one graphics card and running three monitors? Thanks!! Please note, on my first post when I mention hdmi I was suppose to say dvi, I got them muddled up. Hopefully that hasn't confused PEOPLE to much now I have corrected it here. I left it to long to modify my first post. Thanks!!Sounds like your under-powered...'cause it should work. Quote from: patio on August 26, 2013, 05:07:51 PM Sounds like your under-powered...'cause it should work. So let me get this straight, if the Geforce has two dvi connections and one hdmi connection, all three monitors should be able to duplicate each other? Computer monitor on one dvi as main monitor, television on other dvi and then the Oculus Rift which acts like a monitor on the one hdmi? Doesn't the hdmi connection ignore the fact the other two are dvi, or do they all ACT together still when duplicating monitors? Thanks!! Update - Just tested main computer monitor with it hooked upto the hdmi connection on the Geforce card. I left the television on the Dvi and now the main computer monitor gets what appears to be no signal "blank screen" and the television freezes on boot up screen. I plugged the main computer monitor back to the dvi connections on geforce, so television and main computer monitor are both back on dvi to hdmi and they both boot up and duplicate each other. All I want is for another computer monitor to duplicate these two, is this so hard to do? Am I able to get a double dvi connecter for one dvi socket and will this work doing it that way? I may have misunderstood at first, I didn't realise you wanted to effectively have three screens all as duplicates, rather than extended desktop or Nvidia surround. I'm assuming the Nvidia control panel, or Windows display settings, sees all three monitors, but won't let you duplicate the display? Have you tried setting them as extended or surround in the Nvidia panel, to make sure all three will actually work together? They should do, the GTX 680 supports three monitors using any combination of ports from what I can see. Not sure if Ultramon will be any help at all, it's not a very common configuration so it's difficult to find reliable information on how to do this. I'll keep looking and post back anything I can find.

Answer» HI,
I currently have to SCREENS hooked up to my computer. One screen is the computer LCD monitor and the other is my 42" television. These are both using the HDMI slots on my Geforce 680 GTX and using duplicate monitor in the system display setup in control panel. I have now noticed there is also a dvi connection on the back of the graphics card and I am just wondering if I could use that to hook up another monitor? Also, will I have to change anything in the display settings if I do use it for another monitor? Like I already mentioned it is setup as duplicate screen at the moment on the hdmi, but this is a separate dvi connection. Thanks!!You can use three monitors on the GTX 680, no problem, you may need to go into the Nvidia control panel and configure it but you can certainly use the DVI port for a third monitor. Quote from: Calum on August 26, 2013, 02:01:16 PM

You can use three monitors on the GTX 680, no problem, you may need to go into the Nvidia control panel and configure it but you can certainly use the DVI port for a third monitor.

Thanks for the reply but this didn't work. When I booted my Pc both monitors connected to dvi both froze and wouldn't boot into windows. The monitor connected to the hdmi was the only one that booted into windows. I think I need to explain what I am trying to do here and hopefully someone can point me in the right direction. I have a Dev kit for the Oculus rift, which basically is a Virtual reality headset, but it acts like another monitor to install it. If I never had my television on the second dvi I would'nt have a problem installing the Rift because to install it you are supposed to just connect it the same way and set your display setting as duplicate these displays. MEANING the rift is on one dvi and your pc monitor is on the other. I really don't want to keep having to unscrew my television out of the second dvi slot and have to keep swamping between the rift and television. Can anyone tell me if there is anything out there that makes one dvi into two dvi slots and if there is can I have 3 dvi slots working on one graphics card and running three monitors? Thanks!!

Please note, on my first post when I mention hdmi I was suppose to say dvi, I got them muddled up. Hopefully that hasn't confused PEOPLE to much now I have corrected it here. I left it to long to modify my first post. Thanks!!Sounds like your under-powered...'cause it should work. Quote from: patio on August 26, 2013, 05:07:51 PM

Sounds like your under-powered...'cause it should work.

So let me get this straight, if the Geforce has two dvi connections and one hdmi connection, all three monitors should be able to duplicate each other? Computer monitor on one dvi as main monitor, television on other dvi and then the Oculus Rift which acts like a monitor on the one hdmi? Doesn't the hdmi connection ignore the fact the other two are dvi, or do they all ACT together still when duplicating monitors? Thanks!!

Update - Just tested main computer monitor with it hooked upto the hdmi connection on the Geforce card. I left the television on the Dvi and now the main computer monitor gets what appears to be no signal "blank screen" and the television freezes on boot up screen. I plugged the main computer monitor back to the dvi connections on geforce, so television and main computer monitor are both back on dvi to hdmi and they both boot up and duplicate each other. All I want is for another computer monitor to duplicate these two, is this so hard to do? Am I able to get a double dvi connecter for one dvi socket and will this work doing it that way? I may have misunderstood at first, I didn't realise you wanted to effectively have three screens all as duplicates, rather than extended desktop or Nvidia surround.
I'm assuming the Nvidia control panel, or Windows display settings, sees all three monitors, but won't let you duplicate the display? Have you tried setting them as extended or surround in the Nvidia panel, to make sure all three will actually work together? They should do, the GTX 680 supports three monitors using any combination of ports from what I can see.
Not sure if Ultramon will be any help at all, it's not a very common configuration so it's difficult to find reliable information on how to do this. I'll keep looking and post back anything I can find.

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