Question ASUS GEFORCE RTX 5060

[oceanrace]

I purchased this card, it works fine, except it does not seem to be able to drive more than one monitor. Is there something that needs to be enabled in bios to make this happen, I go to windows settings, and it says that it does not detect my other monitor. I tried both the HDMI port with display port, and all combinations of the three display ports, still cannot get it to drive the other monitor. I assumed that having three display ports, it could drive more than one monitor. Am I delusional, or is this just the way it is? It is too late to send it back to Newegg for replacement.

 

[rgd1101]

what are the monitor?

 

[oceanrace]

Both are Dell monitors, don't remember the exact model numbers, one is a little older that I have been using for photography finishing (Lightroom and Photoshop) and the other is a U3782 (IIRC, may be wrong on that one) but both are working great, just cannot use both of them. I may just have to get another GPU to drive the other monitor, would rather not have to do that though. The newest monitor is 6 months old, the older one is a few years old but still works great.

 

[oceanrace]

I found out that I needed to download the NVidia drivers for the card. And I had to run one monitor on HDMI and the other on Display Port. All good now. It would be nice if the instructions just said this to start with. Experimented and found the solution.

 

[rgd1101]

wait, you didn't install gpu driver for the card?

 

[oceanrace]

I did. Followed directions and downloaded the driver from the ASUS website. Which did not work. Then I remembered seeing the card was made with Nvidia chips, so I went to the Nvidia driver download section and plugged in the identifier and found drivers for the card, installed, and they worked! Then I had to play around with the port allocation and found that it needed one monitor on HDMI, and one on DisplayPort and that finalized it. No more problems, is working perfectly.

Some of the problems before finding the correct port allocation were the mouse cursor wouldn't move between screens, I lost the task bar, couldn't move stuff from one screen to the other etc. Putting this info here so if anyone else has these issues, can know what to do to resolve the problems.