Hello hadog,
That indeed does not sound good, which is very odd.
To make Eyefinity work, you need WIN Vista or newer and use the DP1.2 ouput on the Graphics Card. MultiStreamTransport (MST) feature is supported by DisplayPort 1.2 spec and WIN, meaning grpahcis cards with DP1.2 ouput are able to output multiple video streams over a single DP1.2 output. An MST Hub is able to recognize and distribute those video stream (with sound even) to connected screens.
Some screens need to be set to DP1.2 for the DP input in the menue of the screen (factory default would be DP 1.1).
MST Hubs are active devices and do not work well together with other active devices like Active adapters / Cables/ Switches / CrossFire / SLI setups.
Thats it, shoul dbe like “nothing more to it” …