Is DVI hot-pluggable? Something's wrong here :(

[mechBgon]

Last night my system hosted a couple laser printers at an event. After getting it running, I switched off my Planar LCD, unplugged the DVI cable from the monitor, and set it out of harm's way for the rest of the event. The video card is a Radeon 7500, with one DVI-I and one VGA output.

At the end of the event, when I plugged the monitor into the DVI cable and switched it on, the display was bright shades of pink :Q I did the things you'd expect, but I kept getting either shades of pink or a nasty patterned effect.

After getting the system back to the office, I quickly tried again with both DVI and VGA cables (this Planar has both styles of inputs). With VGA, the monitor displays normally. With DVI, it continues to misbehave. Opinions? Did I damage the DVI portion of my Radeon 7500, the DVI portion of my monitor...? Right now I look like this --->

 

[Peter]

DVI plugs are not hot plug capable. Fat chance that either the transmitter in the Radeon chip or the receiver in the panel went dead.

 

[mechBgon]

Darn! Thanks for the info Peter. I learned an expensive lesson, I guess.