Do you think it would make any difference which monitor was connected to the video card's HDMI?
Thanks for the insight, but I already ordered an HDMI>HDMI cable and keeping my fingers crossed.
The BIOS pops up on both my monitors as well....at the boot up BIOS screen and when I actually go into the BIOS. I don't think there is no way around that.
Now, unless your a programmer and can right a code to do just that and if your system is using the new UEFI BIOS, you can have to BIOS to what ever you want. But it's possible....not that I would want to do all that just for what I call a minor annoyance.
Yeah, and I think some motherboards have a more advanced utility for BIOS/UEFI which is like inside the windows already. Mine is just the regular blue & white screen.
Just installed the HDMI cable, and it didn't solve the problem. It took some juggling to just get it working as it did before. At first, all of my desktop gadgets and the Start Menu were all jammed onto my secondary monitor. Even after fixing that, I can't enter the primary monitor's control settings. Therefore, I guess I'm going back to plan B, and try to find a good replacement monitor for my secondary.
The problem has nothing to do with how the OS determines which monitor is primary, only with whether the BIOS screens appear on my primary monitor, which it doesn't regardless of any settings or connection configurations that I have tried. Perhaps the BIOS screens will only be sent over a DVI-I connection. If that is the case, then messing with the connections is a waste of time. It is just that I find it hard to believe that is the only way to connect for the BIOS screens to appear. What if there were only a single monitor connected via HDMI, would the BIOS screens not be visible at all?