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How to Connect Three Monitors to Dell XPS 8700
I have seen some posts that answer this, but wanted some help as I a complete rookie here. The back of my Dell XPS 8700 looks like in the pictures below. I have one DVI, one VGA, 2 HDMI and 1 Display Port.
How can I connect three Monitors to the system and which is the best way to connect the monitors. I have already enabled Multi-Display in the BIOS.
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August 1st, 2017 13:00
Assuming your add-in video card supports more than one monitor, connect the first two to the add-in card, which is in the lower 1/3 of the tower. Obviously, those two monitors must support different video ports because the card only has one of each type. Looks like you have DVI, HDMI and VGA on the add-in card, but you may be able to use an adapter to convert one of them into something else, if the second monitor doesn't have the right inputs.
Third monitor can be connected to any of the onboard video ports.
If the video card doesn't support more than one monitor, your options are either buy a new video card that supports at least two monitors or get a USB>video dongle to connect the third monitor (where "video" = a port that the third monitor supports).
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August 1st, 2017 16:00
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August 1st, 2017 13:00
Excellent thank you very much. It worked like a charm.
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August 5th, 2017 15:00
Hello Ron,
I have another question. Does the Video Card only accept two display outputs inspite of the fact that there are three ports (HDMI, DVI and VGA). Are one of these ports duplicate. This is just for my academic interest.
My graphic card is factory fitted NVIDA GEForce GTX 745.
Many thanks in advance.
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August 5th, 2017 18:00
Hi Ron,
Please ignore my last. I was able to make it work.
I connected all the three monitors to the NVIDA GEForce GTX 745. Before doing that I went to Device Manager updated the drivers. After connecting all there monitors, I went to Display Settings and after selecting each monitor, selected "Extend Display to this Monitor". Then, clicked on the main monitor and clicked on "Make this my main Display". It works like a charm. Please note that I did not enable Multi-Display settings from the BIOS settings.