- #OPTIPLEX 980 WITH INTERGRATED ATI RADEON HD 3400 SERIES MANUALS#
- #OPTIPLEX 980 WITH INTERGRATED ATI RADEON HD 3400 SERIES SERIES#
- #OPTIPLEX 980 WITH INTERGRATED ATI RADEON HD 3400 SERIES WINDOWS#
When I remove the radeon card, that third monitor works like a champ - it's one or the other, but not both.
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#OPTIPLEX 980 WITH INTERGRATED ATI RADEON HD 3400 SERIES WINDOWS#
so here's the dilemna.Ģ monitors plugged in to the radeon 6450, 1 into the integrated (VGA)Īt post, the 2 monitors light up fine and load windows just great, but that third monitor never blips. If you hear beep codes, please tell me what you hear.
![optiplex 980 with intergrated ati radeon hd 3400 series optiplex 980 with intergrated ati radeon hd 3400 series](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/61rjeA364jL._AC_SL1500_.jpg)
#OPTIPLEX 980 WITH INTERGRATED ATI RADEON HD 3400 SERIES SERIES#
Beep codes for this system are three series of beeps with a short pause between each series. Connect the AC power cable and make a note of whether you hear any beep codes.
#OPTIPLEX 980 WITH INTERGRATED ATI RADEON HD 3400 SERIES MANUALS#
The service manuals for your system is found here: ** Please remove the AC power cord before removing any components and take anti-static precautions. ** These steps involve removing components from your system. In this situation, I would advise you to follow these steps: If you've removed the video card and are still seeing the solid amber power button LED then it is possible that there is a hardware failure causing this issue. So, long story short - if you pop a dual-head card into that second PCI-e slot, you will be able to float 4 monitors (I've got 3 right now). This is supposedly enough bandwidth to run across-the-bus SLI, as the monitors are supposed to be connected to the first card in an SLI setup. The minor drawback is that the second x16 slot is not a real x16 it is only connected as an x4. If you pop your video card into the second x16 slot, your onboard video does not get shut down.
![optiplex 980 with intergrated ati radeon hd 3400 series optiplex 980 with intergrated ati radeon hd 3400 series](https://www.notebookcheck.net/uploads/tx_nbc2/780g-hd3200.jpg)
Most current Optiplex machines have two x16 slots. Radeons don't have a lot of support for GPU encoding, so I really wanted that HD4000 active and usable, if not driving a monitor.Īfter a bunch of testing and digging through manuals, I found that the motherboard will always disable the onboard video if you jam a video card into the first PCIe x16. This was not always the case, as the machine arrived with dual ATI Radeon cards. I do video transcoding on my work machine (Optiplex 7010), and the onboard Intel HD4000 GPU rips through h.264 encoding at an impressive rate. This is an older post, but I thought I'd throw some info into the pot for anyone still looking.