Boot display signal sent to card without a monitor

[Fuzzy]

I've had this problem since last year, and I'm wondering if there's an easy fix I'm missing.

When I boot my PC with 4 cards, the boot display signal is always sent to the card in the lowest PCIe slot (furthest from the CPU), whether it has a monitor plugged in or not, which doesn't make any sense.

Any easy fix for this?

[crazyates]

Does your BIOS have an option like "INIT DISPLAY FIRST" or anything to tell it which GPU to use?

[pintycar]

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to choose this on most boards. Usually you can only pick from PCI/PCIe/AGP/Onboard but not which actual PCIe. In my experience, it is the closest one to the cpu which has a display connected.

Good luck.

[crazyates]

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to choose this on most boards. Usually you can only pick from PCI/PCIe/AGP/Onboard but not which actual PCIe. In my experience, it is the closest one to the cpu which has a display connected.

Good luck.

Actually, a lot of motherboards, so let you choose which individual slot to use. On mine, they're labeled as PEG1, PEG2, etc.

[pintycar]

Unfortunately, I don't think there is a way to choose this on most boards. Usually you can only pick from PCI/PCIe/AGP/Onboard but not which actual PCIe. In my experience, it is the closest one to the cpu which has a display connected.

Good luck.

Actually, a lot of motherboards, so let you choose which individual slot to use. On mine, they're labeled as PEG1, PEG2, etc.

Ah that's cool. Must be the budget ones I'm used to then. 

[AndrewBUD]

Even lower end mobo's usually have a PEG1 peg2 and so on selection.... my old old 790gx AMD board had this...


Good luck....