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Hello all. I have a bit of trouble with my main rig. Well, the offending issue is actually my monitor. The HDMI inputs on my monitor are going bad and have frequent but sporatic problems (not displaying ANYTHING, messing up the resolution, sound not coming through. Its all 3 ports for the HDMI board is fubared). Now, this happened in a really delicate situation - I just updated the BIOS (Asus Update windows utility) and restarted. Now Clearly my PC is sitting at a bios update screen, but I can't see anything! I don't really want to turn it off as I don't know if it has begun or completed the BIOS update, or what it "wants" from me.
Thus, I was wondering if it would be possible to unplug the monitor and plug in a new one without shutting off the PC, which I assume is sitting on some BIOS screen. I have a 4870x2 and it would be connected via DVI to the other monitor. I hear conflicted reports if DVI hotplugging is supported, and most of the info is years old.
Ideas?
Thus, I was wondering if it would be possible to unplug the monitor and plug in a new one without shutting off the PC, which I assume is sitting on some BIOS screen. I have a 4870x2 and it would be connected via DVI to the other monitor. I hear conflicted reports if DVI hotplugging is supported, and most of the info is years old.
Ideas?
