Ant wrote:
> Hello.
>
> Is it normal for connected HDMI to be the primary display instead the
> connected VGA? I have both HDMI (HDTV) and VGA (monitor) connected to my
> new 64-bit W10 Pro PC (Intel Core i5-10400 Comet Lake 2.9GHz 6-Core LGA
> 1200 CPU (includes Intel UHD 630 GPU), ASRock H510M-HDV/M.2 Intel LGA
> 1200 microATX motherboard, MSI NVIDIA GeForce GTX 750 Ti DirectX 11.2
> N750TI-2GD5/OC (2 GB of VRAM), etc.). It didn't matter if I use the
> onboard video or the video card. I want my VGA (monitor) to be my
> primary screen and my HDTV to be the secondary. Even UEFI stuff shows on
> my HDTV (HDMI). Nothing on my monitor (VGA)! I remember the old PCs used
> to show same stuff on both displays during old BIOS and CMOS!
>
> Also, I'm using an old OmniCube KVM (PS2+VGA) from Y2K for my VGA
> monitor. W10 says my monitor is #2 (VGA) while HDTV (HDMI) is #1. How
> can I tell the motherboard to use my monitor as the first display (VGA)
> instead of my HDTV (HDMI)?
>
> Thank you for reading and hopefully answering soon. :)
I made a pronouncement about a year ago.
I said it "was The Year of the Graphics Adapter".
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.
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.
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.
I don't see any setting in the user manual to do otherwise.
The "primary adapter" selector, chooses between the chipset GPU
and the card GPU you have plugged in. It's not a connector
choice exactly.
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.
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.
Paul