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I have an ECS A790GXM-AD3 Motherboard with a AMD Phenom II X3 and a XFX Ati R7 240 video card. I have 2 VGA monitors that I want to configure in extended desktop and the video card doens't support the 2nd one because the DVI output is digital.
I enabled SurroundView in the BIOS and managed to make the extended desktop to work. but when i want to play a game it crashes saying that it cannot recognize the video card and the AMD Catalyst only recognizes the on-board video. If i try to re-install catalyst Windows 8 crashes and reboots.
how can I make the video card driver work while on extended desktop?
UPDATE I uninstalled all drivers and now i have no drivers at all since it crashes when i try to reinstall them. Only the video card is working but both cards are listed (as ATI Radeon HD 3300 Graphics and ATI basic display adapter).
Solved Ended up installing a 2nd nVidia Video card.
you can't make a video card Driver work for the Motherboard built-in graphics hardware, it doesn't work like that. you need to use the video card for both monitors. it's one or the other, Graphics card or Motherboard Graphics, not both – Malachi – 2014-04-24T14:25:30.823
1@Malachi That's not strictly true, and depends entirely on the exact system configuration. Some (most?) systems do support dual display from both the video card and motherboard. – Bob – 2014-04-24T14:31:33.830
@Bob I stand Corrected. it still won't be a good setup for a game that requires dual monitors. the game will try run through one Graphics Device (Graphics card) not both. it will most likely assume that you have a Gaming Graphics card that is set up for 2(+) monitors – Malachi – 2014-04-24T14:46:54.120
I intend to use only the video card for gaming, the second one is for desktop use only. i just want it to work, nothing more. – Arheisel – 2014-04-24T22:25:59.437