A little while ago, I got a new GPU...it's a NVidia GTX970 and it works fine. (It replaced my GTX590 which I offered for sale on here, but that's now in a box, and will be put to some other use at some point).
I've been using a 32" Samsung widescreen LCD monitor and everything has been tickety boo with no issues. The supplier of the monitor let me know he had another one at a silly price. So, I got it.
Now, the GTX970 has 2x DVI, 1x HDMI and 1x Display Port outputs. So I thought I'd run 2 DVI cables - one to the 1st monitor and one to the second.
But despite trying to use the NVidia Control Panel app, I could not get them to work.
I read a few reports that it's better to run 1s Display Port output to one monitor and then DVI to the 2nd.
Does anyone have any experience of running to monitors off a single NVidia card?
regards
Tim
(For the time being, I have a spare GTX560 so I've installed that and re-installed the NVidia drivers and that works fine. The only downside is that the GTX560 is "found" by BOINC and hence it tries to crunch tasks, but the fan noise is unbearable. !! So, I need to stop BOINC from using it - that's done by the following:
The cc_config.xml file needs tweaking if only ONE GPU is to be used:
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<ignore_cuda_dev>N</ignore_cuda_dev>
rem Ignore (don't use) a specific NVIDIA GPU. You can ignore more than one. Requires a client restart. Only used in 6.10.19 till 6.12.41.
<ignore_intel_dev>N</ignore_intel_dev>
rem Ignore (don't use) a specific Intel GPU. Requires a client restart.
<ignore_nvidia_dev>N</ignore_nvidia_dev>
rem Ignore (don't use) a specific NVIDIA GPU. You can ignore more than one. Replaces <ignore_cuda_dev/>. Requires a client restart.