Dual Display Identities

2010-05-21 11:02:59

#1

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6840|SE London

This might seem like a silly question, but does anyone know a quick easy way of swapping which monitor is assigned as which?

I am aware of several ways to do this, but none of which really meets my needs; I could swap the ports on the GPU that the monitors are plugged into (which I don't want to do because that was my original solution, which has led to me getting no image on my primary display till windows boots), I could start trashing registry keys and reinstalling display drivers too - but that's far too much hassle.

Surely there is a quick easy way of just swapping which display is number 1 and which is number 2?

2010-05-21 11:06:32

#2

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

Or whatever nVidias equivalent is.

2010-05-21 11:08:29

#3

steelie34: pub hero!; +603|6640|the land of bourbon

nevermind... finny's is faster better way ^

cant this be done with that tool in the control panel where you assign which is the primary? or is that the process you are trying to simplify?

https://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w171/steelie34/monitor.jpg

Last edited by steelie34 (2010-05-21 11:09:45)

https://bf3s.com/sigs/36e1d9e36ae924048a933db90fb05bb247fe315e.png

2010-05-21 11:10:22

#4

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

steelie34 wrote:
wait, cant this be done with that tool in the control panel where you assign which is the primary? or is that the process you are trying to simplify?

http://i176.photobucket.com/albums/w171 … onitor.jpg

That doesn't swap the numbers that appear on the screens

2010-05-21 11:14:34

#5

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6840|SE London

Finray wrote:
http://i50.tinypic.com/246v1qu.png

Or whatever nVidias equivalent is.

That would be great. But I don't know what nVidias equivalent is. It seems I can't do anything more in the nVidia Control Panels Setup Multiple Displays screen than I can in the Windows display settings.

I had suspected it would be some sort of display driver level thingy, probably some sort of related TMM key wotsit too.

Last edited by Bertster7 (2010-05-21 11:20:46)

2010-05-21 11:21:45

#6

Finray: Hup! Dos, Tres, Cuatro; +2,629|6047|Catherine Black

Don't get ATi, they have bad drivers, they said.

2010-05-21 11:54:28

#7

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6570

In the Nvidia control panel:
Uncheck the first display then re-check it. The 2nd monitor should now be in place of the 1st. Hit apply and it'll switch it up.

Doesn't swap the numbers but you can still choose which one is primary.

Last edited by ebug9 (2010-05-21 12:00:58)

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2010-05-21 12:01:08

#8

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6840|SE London

ebug9 wrote:
In the Nvidia control panel:
Uncheck the first display then re-check it. The 2nd monitor should now be in place of the 1st. Hit apply and it'll switch it up.

Nope.

Makes no difference to the monitor identity at all.

2010-05-21 12:14:19

#9

bugz: Fission Mailed; +3,311|6570

Found this on another forum. Seems a bit tedious but apparently it works.

My problem:

VGA (via DVI adaptor) connection to monitor is identified as 2 - This is my primary display
HDMI (via DVI adaptor) connection to TV is identified as 1 - I use this as my second display

My solution (I thought I had already tried this, but, as it turned out, I hadn't, not quite like this anyway):

1) Unplugged both displays from the back of my pc.
2) Switched on.
3) Waited until I thought the login screen had loaded (couldn't see anything, obviously).
4) Pressed the power button to instigate a shutdown.
5) Plugged my monitor (not TV) into one of the two DVI slots.
6) Switched on. Checked in Windows Display Properties, and found that the monitor is still number 2.
7) Switched off.
8) Repeat steps 1-5, this time plugging the monitor into the other DVI slot.
9) Switched on.
This time Windows Display Properties shows that my monitor is now, as I had wished, number 1! Woo Hoo!
10) Plugged in the TV into the spare DVI slot (with the power still on) and now it's all good.

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2010-05-22 06:45:59

#10

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6840|SE London

ebug9 wrote:
Found this on another forum. Seems a bit tedious but apparently it works.

My problem:

VGA (via DVI adaptor) connection to monitor is identified as 2 - This is my primary display
HDMI (via DVI adaptor) connection to TV is identified as 1 - I use this as my second display

My solution (I thought I had already tried this, but, as it turned out, I hadn't, not quite like this anyway):

1) Unplugged both displays from the back of my pc.
2) Switched on.
3) Waited until I thought the login screen had loaded (couldn't see anything, obviously).
4) Pressed the power button to instigate a shutdown.
5) Plugged my monitor (not TV) into one of the two DVI slots.
6) Switched on. Checked in Windows Display Properties, and found that the monitor is still number 2.
7) Switched off.
8) Repeat steps 1-5, this time plugging the monitor into the other DVI slot.
9) Switched on.
This time Windows Display Properties shows that my monitor is now, as I had wished, number 1! Woo Hoo!
10) Plugged in the TV into the spare DVI slot (with the power still on) and now it's all good.

That is essentially an uneccessarily complicated version of this:

Bertster7 wrote:
I could swap the ports on the GPU that the monitors are plugged into (which I don't want to do because that was my original solution, which has led to me getting no image on my primary display till windows boots)

2010-05-22 08:46:27

#11

OmniDeath: ~; +726|6902

What do you need to do this for? I'm messing around with it in the nvidia control panel and there doesn't seem to be a way to change which display shows which number, but you can change which display is primary, etc. What does it matter what number it shows?

https://static.bf2s.com/files/user/13406/display.jpg

Last edited by OmniDeath (2010-05-22 08:51:59)

2010-05-22 11:54:02

#12

Bertster7: Confused Pothead; +1,101|6840|SE London

OmniDeath wrote:
What do you need to do this for? I'm messing around with it in the nvidia control panel and there doesn't seem to be a way to change which display shows which number, but you can change which display is primary, etc. What does it matter what number it shows?

http://static.bf2s.com/files/user/13406/display.jpg

It doesn't matter much.

But with my current setup, only the display that is number 1 will display video before windows boots, once you get to the login window, it's fine but before that, it doesn't display anything - which is a bit awkward. If I have the screens connected the other way round and I use the nice little shortcuts for switching your display between monitor and projector, I have to have my monitor described as a projector and my projector described as a monitor.

I'd just prefer them to be called the right thing. But I'm not prepared to uninstall my video drivers and go through all the rigmarole of sorting it out properly.

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