- May 19, 2011
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I just encountered the strangest thing. My wife wanted to upgrade to a setup that meant that she could easily plug her work laptop into two monitors next to each other (three displays including her laptop setup, going from a single desktop screen plus her laptop screen), as well as providing her ageing desktop with an additional display (the two monitors plus the TV via a long HDMI cable).
As her computer has a GeForce 760 with 2x DVI, 1x HDMI and 1x DisplayPort with the HDMI being used by the TV and the monitors have 1x DP and 1x HDMI each, I was going to need to get "creative" (not very, but anyway). My plan was to use a DVI - DisplayPort cable in the hope that the computer would regard the "DVI" connection as the primary (ie. at the BIOS stage the computer fires up a monitor rather than trying to send that output to the TV as it has been doing), but apparently the computer is having none of this cable, it refuses to even detect a display at all while in Windows full stop, so I guess I've fallen prey to the "it's a DisplayPort to DVI cable, not the other way around" situation (despite in one of the reviews a guy said they had used the cable in the way I intended).
So there I was with Windows booted and only showing a desktop on the TV behind where I sitting, and I told Windows to shut down via the Start Menu. The computer's lights go off, USB lights go off, but I could still hear at least one fan running. With a torch and that the PC has a window at the side, I confirmed that the CPU fan was running at least (likely more than that as the CPU fan is virtually silent). I switched off the PSU via the rocker switch on the back, yet the fans continued to run. I unplugged the power cable, the fans were still running. Feeling like I had entered the zone where normal things don't happen very often, I unplugged the DVI cable, then the fans stopped. This isn't some weird fluke either, I then tried the other DVI socket in the hope that my original plan would work, and after an unsuccessful display test and shut down, the fan thing happened again.
As her computer has a GeForce 760 with 2x DVI, 1x HDMI and 1x DisplayPort with the HDMI being used by the TV and the monitors have 1x DP and 1x HDMI each, I was going to need to get "creative" (not very, but anyway). My plan was to use a DVI - DisplayPort cable in the hope that the computer would regard the "DVI" connection as the primary (ie. at the BIOS stage the computer fires up a monitor rather than trying to send that output to the TV as it has been doing), but apparently the computer is having none of this cable, it refuses to even detect a display at all while in Windows full stop, so I guess I've fallen prey to the "it's a DisplayPort to DVI cable, not the other way around" situation (despite in one of the reviews a guy said they had used the cable in the way I intended).
So there I was with Windows booted and only showing a desktop on the TV behind where I sitting, and I told Windows to shut down via the Start Menu. The computer's lights go off, USB lights go off, but I could still hear at least one fan running. With a torch and that the PC has a window at the side, I confirmed that the CPU fan was running at least (likely more than that as the CPU fan is virtually silent). I switched off the PSU via the rocker switch on the back, yet the fans continued to run. I unplugged the power cable, the fans were still running. Feeling like I had entered the zone where normal things don't happen very often, I unplugged the DVI cable, then the fans stopped. This isn't some weird fluke either, I then tried the other DVI socket in the hope that my original plan would work, and after an unsuccessful display test and shut down, the fan thing happened again.
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