Re: Is it normal for connected HDMI to be the primary display instead the connected VGA?

In alt.comp.hardware.homebuilt Paul <[email protected]> wrote:
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> I made a pronouncement about a year ago.

> I said it "was The Year of the Graphics Adapter".

Argh. Also, it was a bad year for everyone due to the panademic. :(


> To use a VGA port, you *do not* use the VGA port.
> You use the HDMI port, then connect a HDMI to VGA
> adapter to it.

I only have one HDMI port per video. I can't use both onboard and video 
card at the same time.


> This also affects which motherboard you buy. You want a motherboard 
> with all HDMI adapters or all DisplayPort adapters, so no matter how 
> egregeously bad the startup behavior is, an HDMI to VGA or a DP to VGA 
> solves the problem.

Both of my videos have HDMI, VGA, and DVI.


> I have a VGA monitor on the Test Machine. I own
> several of each, HDMI to VGA and DP to VGA. When
> the machine did the same thing yours id doing
> (Ignoring the users chosen monitor), I simply
> find which port is the primary on the computer
> end, then stuff an adapter in it, to convert
> to the standard *I* want.

> That's how upside-down the world is in the year 2021.

2020 was worse.


> I don't see any setting in the user manual to do otherwise.

Same. :(


> The "primary adapter" selector, chooses between the chipset GPU
> and the card GPU you have plugged in. It's not a connector
> choice exactly.

Yep! https://ibb.co/album/NdbMCD (Samsung HDTV[HDMI] vs. ASUS 
monitor[VGA with HDMI cable discconnected]).


> If the Intel side of this equation is not giving you
> what you want, plug in a PCIe graphics, set the BIOS
> "primary display adapter" to PCIe, and it
> will have some (stoopid) choice for primary monitor connector,
> and you can use adapters to get what you need. When you
> use an HDMI to VGA adapter, the computer end thinks
> it is HDMI and does not suspect a thing.

[sighs]


> My stinkin card has at least three DP, but the one HDMI
> is the primary, and guess what ? My adapter of choice is
> an HDMI to VGA. The computer has never switched away from
> that on me, since I started using that choice instead of
> the DP to VGA one.

Three? Wow. I haven't gotten any with DisplayPorts. Well, except MacBook 
Pros. Man, I really miss the old days!
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