How to enable motherboard HDMI?
There are many situation when enabling the HDMI port on the motherboard may come in handy. Situation such as where you have limited ports on your dedicated graphics card, or if the HDMI port on the graphics card is damaged may warrant the use of motherboard HDMI port. Here we talk about how to enable motherboard HDMI.
Essentially enabling motherboard HDMI involves checking whether your CPU has integrated graphics or not. If yes, then you need to go into your computer’s BIOS and enable integrated graphics usually found in the Advanced settings with the name IGPU Multi-Monitor. Save your settings and reboot your PC followed by connecting the monitors and installing the latest integrated graphics driver.
You can see that on some motherboards with a discrete GPU, the integrated graphics is disabled in the BIOS by some manufacturers. However, users can easily enable it to get the onboard HDMI working also.
It should be noted that not all motherboards, particularly very old systems, support the usage of onboard video ports