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So recently a friend of mine has a Dell Latitude 3330, and he connected 2 external monitors with hdmi and vga, but the laptop can only run one of them at once.

Windows detects the 3rd monitor, but labels it as inactive

any way to fix this?

[mothered]

Moved from the Operating Systems forum to Hardware & Customization.

he connected 2 external monitors with hdmi and vga

I believe this may be the Issue - the laptop doesn't allow a connection to both (VGA & HDMI) ports at the same time.

[fire]

Moved from the Operating Systems forum to Hardware & Customization.

he connected 2 external monitors with hdmi and vga

I believe this may be the Issue - the laptop doesn't allow a connection to both (VGA & HDMI) ports at the same time.

How can I fix/bypass this?

The ports are clearly there, and windows recognizes it so there must be some workaround

[mothered]

The ports are clearly there, and windows recognizes it

Windows recognizes It, but It's not splitting the signal, therefore there's only a single output.

Disable the laptop monitor and see If both externals work.

[fire]

The ports are clearly there, and windows recognizes it

Windows recognizes It, but It's not splitting the signal, therefore there's only a single output.

Disable the laptop monitor and see If both externals work.

will do

[mothered]

The ports are clearly there, and windows recognizes it

Windows recognizes It, but It's not splitting the signal, therefore there's only a single output.

Disable the laptop monitor and see If both externals work.

will do

Please reply with the result.

[fire]

Windows recognizes It, but It's not splitting the signal, therefore there's only a single output.

Disable the laptop monitor and see If both externals work.

will do

Please reply with the result.

doesn't seem to work, whenever i plug them in seperatley they both work

[PjdeP]

I had a similar issue and i fixed it by disabling the GPU driver (indevice manager). And later on a gpu driver uodate fixed it

[mothered]

doesn't seem to work, whenever i plug them in seperatley they both work

I have a few other Ideas, but first try what @PjdeP mentioned above.

[fire]

I had a similar issue and i fixed it by disabling the GPU driver (indevice  manager). And later on a gpu driver uodate fixed it

it uses intel built in graphics how can i disable the gpu if its the only gpu?