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| Thread ID: 148229 | 2019-09-22 05:23:00 | Graphics card suppresses boot up screen | Tony (4941) | Press F1 |
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| 1463935 | 2019-09-22 05:23:00 | My desktop PC (Win10 pro) has Radeon onboard graphics and an NVIDIA discrete graphics card. If I plug the monitor into the onboard graphics, all is fine. If I plug into the NVIDIA, all sorts of things happen: When I boot up, I don't see any of the startup stuff - multi-boot menu etc. The first thing I see is the logon screen. The desktop has no icons - just the taskbar. I can drag from the left to see my "proper" desktop, but as soon as I let go the mouse button it springs back to a blank desktop. If I change the plug to the Radeon graphics at this point, everything comes right. What's going on? The NVIDIA card has the latest drivers. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1463936 | 2019-09-22 05:50:00 | Are you leaving something plugged into the onboard graphics? What you describe sounds like the system thinks there are two monitors and you are seeing just the secondary one. If you can get into the display settings and see 2 monitors, change which one is the primary or disable the one that isn't connected. There is an identify option if you are not sure. |
dugimodo (138) | ||
| 1463937 | 2019-09-22 06:03:00 | No, I take the DVI plug out of one and plug it into the other. I understand what you are saying though. The problem is that when I'm plugged into the Nvidia card and have the blank desktop, everything I initiate displays on the invisible desktop. At least I assume it does - it certainly doesn't display where I can see it. | Tony (4941) | ||
| 1463938 | 2019-09-22 08:38:00 | I don't know the answer but I wonder if it is to do with what seems like plug and play. Have you tried turning off the desktop, change your connection to the Nvidia and restarting? Merely a thought on my part. | Bryan (147) | ||
| 1463939 | 2019-09-22 10:25:00 | I don't know the answer but I wonder if it is to do with what seems like plug and play. Have you tried turning off the desktop, change your connection to the Nvidia and restarting? Merely a thought on my part. Yes, tried that. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1463940 | 2019-09-22 19:37:00 | Have you tried disabing the onboard graphics? Dugimodo's post above looks like it describes what is happening. | CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1463941 | 2019-09-22 19:59:00 | Have you tried disabing the onboard graphics? Dugimodo's post above looks like it describes what is happening. I thought about that, but when I go into the BIOS setup I can't find anything to disable. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1463942 | 2019-09-22 20:23:00 | How about disabling it in Device Manager? The only other thing I can think of is hook up two monitors and see if you can sort it out then. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
| 1463943 | 2019-09-22 21:20:00 | How about disabling it in Device Manager? The only other thing I can think of is hook up two monitors and see if you can sort it out then. I have to be really careful or I'm going to end up totally snookered. The only time I can see anything to do anything is if the monitor is connected to the on-board graphics. So if I disable that in Device Manager presumably my screen will go blank. Now maybe if I then plug into the graphics card everything will be visible - but if it is not I'm up a gum tree. The two-monitor thing will be worth a go though - I'll try that when I have a bit of time this arvo. |
Tony (4941) | ||
| 1463944 | 2019-09-22 21:46:00 | At least with two monitors you could see what you were doing and if you make the graphics card connected one the number 1 display you should be able to see what happens when the on board video number 2 display is disabled. I would make a active@ backup before starting just to be certain if it turned to custard I had an easy way to recover. |
CliveM (6007) | ||
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