Re: DVI not working at early system startup

From: Dances With Crows (danSPANceswitTRAPhcrows_at_usa.net)
Date: 05/13/04 

Date: 13 May 2004 19:15:07 GMT

On Thu, 13 May 2004 11:37:30 -0700, @(none) staggered into the Black Sun
and said:
> I have a MSI 5900XT vidio card tied to a DELL 2001 LCD. The 15 pin
> video connection works fine at startup, but I want to only use the DVI
> connection. Unfortunately, there is no signal over that connection in
> early startup. I would like to do away with the 15 pin video
> connection alltogether and use only the DVI connection to enter the
> system BIOS and to view startup messages.

The POST and BIOS screens are totally independent of any OS you may have
installed, so you'll have to look in the manual that came with your
graphics card and see if there's anything you can do to get the card to
use DVI before any real video drivers are loaded. I'd think there must
be something you can do since 640x480 16-color mode is supported by
everything, but if the video card manufacturer was being cheap, they may
have left that capability out. How often do you need to look at the
BIOS Setup screen anyway? 

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