Question: Connecting LCD TV as a Monitor?

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Answer #1:

No, you cannot use your onboard and discrete graphics cards at the same time. The onboard is automatically disabled in the presence of the separately-installed graphics card.

Both displays must be connected to your separately-installed graphics card.

If you want to run your two displays in extended desktop mode (with each monitor displaying different things), having two displays with different resolutions is NOT an issue. It will work just fine.

Answer #2:

First, you won't be able to use both the build-in ATI and the dedicated NVIDIA card at the same time. Second, please post a little more information about the NVIDIA card. Given it has the VGA and DVI ports, I'm hoping it is a dual display capable card. If that is the case, you can connect two displays, one as the LCD, the other as the LCD TV. NVIDIA and ATI dual display (or more with some of the newer cards) cards support running multiple displays at different resolutions. For the LCD TV display, you are probably running at 720p (1280x720) and modern video cards can support that and the higher 1080p (1920x1080).

I'd recommend getting the exact NVIDIA model information and we can look up what it can do from the specifications of the manufacturer. Ideally you can use both ports on the card to drive a separate display.





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