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January 10th, 2013 04:00
Trying to hook up 3 monitors - Radeon HD 7770
I have been looking for answers on this so any help would be appreciated. I have a Radeon HD 7770 with 3 ports ( DVI, HDMI, Displayport)
As of right now I have the following connected:
Samsung TV (HDMI to DP) - working
An NEC 21" LCD (DVI) - working
A ViewSonic VX2433wm (HDMI) - not working
For some reason I cannot get my 3rd monitor (viewsonic via HDMI port) to activate. I thought at first it would be a problem with the Display port needing an active Adapter while using the viewsonic as I have read you need an active adapter, but the Samsung TV works fine going from HDMI to the Display port so I am going to guess that is working. I cannot, however, connect my 3rd monitor to the HDMI port and get it to be recognized. Windows settings tells me that it can't save the settings when I try to turn it on.


speedstep
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January 10th, 2013 06:00
You have to have a VIDEO CARD model that has Eyefinity support. If it doesn't say that on the box for that model card then its VERY LIKELY that 3 monitors will NEVER work. They make specific cards that support 3 or more monitors via EYEFINITY but NOT EACH AND EVERY Model supports this or even each GPU Series. Its up to the card maker whether they support this or not. Thats why there are "EYFINITY" marked versions of the cards that GUARANTEE Support of 3 monitors or more.
AMD Radeon™ HD 7770 GHz Edition Feature Summary
2GB GDDR5 Memory
AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology
Use of 3 or more displays with AMD Eyefinity technology requires a DisplayPort-capable panel with AMD Eyefinity validated dongle.
See http://www.amd.com/EyefinityDongles for a list of validated DisplayPort dongles.
Maximum Supported Resolution 1920x1200 on displays that support Reduced Blanking Intervals, this is the upper resolution that the dongles support. Other circumstances such as a monitor's supported timings/resolutions as reported by a monitor's EDID may limit the supported resolution below this value. SL-DVI Active adapters support a maximum resolution of Displays that do not support Reduced Blanking Intervals may report a maximum resolution of 1600x1200. To determine if your display supports reduced blanking, please contact your display vendor.
TheInfamousFX
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January 10th, 2013 16:00
So even if 2 of my monitors work I still need to purchase a dongle for the third regardless? As of right now I have my Samsung TV on the Display port using an HDMI convertor and its working fine. I am really hoping I dont have to buy another piece of hardware just to get this to work. Regardless of which 2 monitors I plug into where, they always work, getting the 3rd never does though.
TechSage
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January 20th, 2013 09:00
I myself am not familar with AMD Eyefinity multi-display technology however the first thing I would recommend would be go to the card manufacture website and verifi what exact modle you have and look for a users guid, this should tell you what feature set your card has and where or how to enable it, you may need to go someplace in the configuration propertys to enable 3rd monitor functionality. also traditionaly you needed another graphics card for monitors 3 and 4.
AMD Radeon™ HD 7770 2GB GDDR5 :emotion-2:
TechSage
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January 20th, 2013 09:00
http://www.amd.com/us/products/desktop/graphics/7000/7770/Pages/radeon-7770.aspx#3 also select the foot notes on this page to see this
so it looks like you may have to find and set the same display resoluytion on all 3 monitors to enable this function and it also looks like all 3 must be connected via display port, so for your situation it would seem you need a hub to convert the various connector types to the display port output of your card.
cyberroger1
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April 11th, 2013 11:00
If this card has a Display Port out, you need a "Active" Display Port Adapter to use a 3rd monitor