Logically Challanged Designers
Graphics cards with multiple outputs are a bit of a bug bear at the moment. Now these beasties are almost quite clever, as when you boot your PC up they will look for a connected screen and display on that. Ah but what about if no screen is connected or in my case the screen is turned off when you boot the PC? My logic dictates that it would always default to one of the outputs, perhaps output 0 or some such, but no in the case of my ATI 4870 it seems to randomly select an output. This is very annoying as I have a power save 8 way adapter that powers off all the sockets and thus all the peripherals when the PC is shutdown. When I switch the pc on the monitor does not automatically come on and thus never sends a signal to the PC and I end up under the desk swapping the lead over to the other output. All very unnecessarily irritating. Another one is the Xbox, when you get one of these you want to play so you create a profile and get on with gaming, then you think I just link this pro...