Dummy Plug with DVI-D?

[note235]

I have 2 radeon 290 in one of my rigs with win 8.1 installed. I can power one using my monitor but the second I can't power since it accepts DVI-D only. I don't think there's a cable that's possible and I can't use a dummy plug because it's dvi-i.
Both the boards are the same so both have only DVI-D.

Any suggestions?

Thanks

 

[VirtualLarry]

What are you saying? Video cards aren't powered by their monitor connections. Also, what does this have to do with Distributed Computing?

 

[Icecold]

What are you saying? Video cards aren't powered by their monitor connections. Also, what does this have to do with Distributed Computing?

Some OS's only allow the video card to be activated for compute use if there's a monitor attached. This is why he mentioned the DVI dummy plug, which is a DVI to VGA adapter with a couple resistors on it, so to the OS it appears that a VGA monitor is attached to the video card. This only works with DVI connectors outputting both a digital and analog signal(DVI-I) so this solution does not work for his needs which is DVI-D. This seems like a decent place to post this as it definitely would pertain to DC

OP - I don't know of a solution for this issue, sorry. If it were me I'd be throwing the cheapest, smallest LCD monitor on it I could find, but that does not answer your question.

 

[QuietDad]

They do make dvi-d to vga adapters ( http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...ond-dummy-plug) that show you how to wire a dummy plug.

 

[note235]

They do make dvi-d to vga adapters ( http://www.amazon.com/s/?ie=UTF8&key...ond-dummy-plug) that show you how to wire a dummy plug.

oh interesting
I didn't know they did make them
thanks

 

[salvorhardin]

If you have a recent monitor that has multiple inputs, you can connect both cards to the same monitor. When I had 2 cards I had my primary card as dvi and my secondary as hdmi.