ASUS P5B-VM SE MOBO and New Video Card

Hi all,

I just installed a new video card Galaxy G-Force 210 1 gig in my ASUS P5B-VM SE mobo home built Windows XP Pro SP3 computer. I had been running the on board video card with an old LCD with 1280x1024 settings, so I opened the computer put in the new vid card hooked the new 27" LCD to the new Vid card and hooked the old LCD to the Mobo on board video option. When I booted the computer the old monitor did not seem to be receiving the video commands from the on board video options. So I am assuming inserting the PCI-Express 2.0 (x16) card into the Slot disabled the on mo board video capability. The new monitor was still unadjusted for max resolution so I installed the latest card driver and adjusted the resolution and rebooted. The old unit still was not receiving any signal.

So I see the video card will support two monitors, so I get out some more cabling and hook up the new monitor to the digital input, and hook the old monitor to the vga video input and boot'er up now the new LCD will not work and the old one does. So I assume that I do not have enough on board video card memory to run both monitors at max resolution. So I just went back to the single 27" LCD and left the old monitor on my plan table until I could find out more about this. I went into the BIOS to see f I could enable the old video option but there was no setting or indication of that in BIOS

My question is; Can I somehow force both video cards to work, the new and the on board? If not is there such a thing as an old PCI type video card that will work with the old 1280x1024 monitor and the ASUS P5B-VM SE MOBO that will give me the two monitor option. I think the Asus has a newer version of the old PCI (which I forget the term. Is it PCI2 or something like that?)

By the way the new monitor has a resolution of 19XX by 1024 which is what I need and the Video Card has a resolution of 25xx by 19xx or something like that. I can not find that exact info although when I bought the card I read that somewhere.

 

By the way this is my office computer so I did not think I would need a two hundred buck video card to run Word, Excel, and PDF's. That is why I bought the card above.

 

Couple of Google places say YES and a couple say NO.

Couple of YES ones said this.

Check the BIOS. See if you can change the default display adapter to your on board.

In any case, you will most likely need to set it in the BIOS, you may be able to go in there now and see if there is a "both" option under graphics. Again, there is no one answer fits all and it is different everywhere

 

Should work with both monitors connected to 210 board (VGA + DVI) ports.

But might’ve missed a step.

After computer boots "“ and only 1 monitor working "“ go to control panel "“ display "“ Settings tab "“ click on monitor 1 or 2 whichever is grayed out and checkmark: Extend my Windows desktop onto this monitor "“ click apply.

If that worked. Same place - by clicking on 1 or other monitor you can set which is the primary (has task bar and windows initally opens on).

By dragging the 'monitor' icon can position which 1 is on left or right side.

 

Some monitors have a button to change which video input to use, (DVI, VGA, S-Video, etc.).

 

Thanks guys the monitor by the way is a Viewsonic, and when I changed from VGA to the digital input the videocard and monitor both recognized it. At first I used the only cable (VGA) they sent me for the new monitor thankfully on my recording computer I have a viewsonic as well but the vid card was VGA only and they sent me both cables so I had the digital cable and tried it. By the way it is much faster digital in redrawing than the original VGA

I tried looking in BIOS, I tried working with the desktop display properties, none of the suggestions above worked. I tried all those things right away. Both video cards were never an option. so I am guessing the new 210 disabled the on board video capability. And the new video card does not have enough resolution to support both monitors so it defaults to only the small one.

I guess I am stuck running one monitor only with this rig, next time I will buy a video card with mondo resolution ;~)

 

Hi , your card does support multimonitor - i suggest ensure latest driver and control panel is installed using the clean install option and configure via the nvidia control panel rather than Windows display applet
some reading here nVidia dual monitor setup

correct me if I am wrong but i believe split cable adapters are supported , so as to enable dual monitors using your card , however maybe VGA spec only

 

specs from nvidia
http://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-210/specifications