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Journeyman III

Can't get 3 monitors to work

I have graphics card Radeon R9 200 series (apparently 290x 2gb), it has 4 ports — HDMI, Display port, DVI-I, DVI-D.

Main display is connected through HDMI and working fine. Second one is connected through DVI-D and working fine.

Today I purchased third monitor which has VGA port, so I use this setup: monitor -> VGA-VGA wire -> VGA-DVI-A adapter -> DVI-I in the graphics card.

Apparently DVI-A into DVI-I port is working fine thanks to my motherboard that has it, so I checked it.

What happens is when I try to connect all 3 monitors, Windows 11 detects all of them but when I select anything than "Disconnected" in display options it automatically resets to "Disconnected". But when I manually disconnect one of my first 2 monitors, and try connecting my new one, it works just fine.

So I can connect only up to 2 monitors at the same time.

Things I tried: connected all 3 monitors to the motherboard and they work all at once fine (I have Intel core i5 4460), from which I decided this is graphics card related issue. Then I tried to install driver, didn't help.

I also tried leaving first 2 monitors to graphics card, and connected third one to motherboard, they work fine all together.

The thing I don't get is what stops me from connecting them all to graphics card. 

How to fix that? 

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What is the Make & Model of your GPU card, Motherboard, and CPU you have installed?

On some older GPU cards two Video outputs might be connected whereas you can only use one of the two video outputs at the same time.

That is why I need to know the Make & Model of your GPU card.  You can upload a GPU-Z image plus click on 'LOOKUP" at the upper right corner to take you to the GPU card you have installed.

 

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