In the last couple of months, I've had a lot of reports of dual input suddenly stopping working. There have been some occasional instances of dp chips failing, but having a bunch of reports so close in time was unusual.
One user (thanks Nick!) reported that the issue occurred after a driver update and that later updating to
456.38 resolved the issue. I was skeptical because the problem presented in the same way as a failed DP chip, but another user today indicated that they had problems starting with a ~452.xx driver and the issue was resolved after updating to 456.55.
In short, if you have issues with dual input, try nv driver 456.38 or newer.
Curious to hear feedback on this. Don't have an explanation or a pass/fail comparison on different driver versions.