Is DVI Hot Pluggable?

[JMWarren]

I thought I remember reading somewhere that it wasn't but google isn't being forth comming....

 

[Nocturnal]

I've hot plugged it many times and have never experienced a dead video card or monitor. I may be wrong though.

 

[JMWarren]

Good to Know, With my luck it's not and the first time I do it's POOF!

LOL

 

[Matthias99]

Originally posted by: JMWarren
Good to Know, With my luck it's not and the first time I do it's POOF!

LOL

AFAIK, it's not "really" hot-pluggable, but you are VERY unlikely to actually damage anything. Worst-case is probably that the monitor won't work unless it is plugged in when the system is booted.

 

[phaxmohdem]

I've never had an actual digital panel top plug and unplug.. But I"ve hot plugged a normal monitor into a DVI port via VGA -> DVI adapter many times with no wierdness.

 

[SparkyJJO]

I've hot-plugged VGA many many times, never had an issue. DVI I thought was the same way. Hehe the only things I've not hotplugged on the comp is the power cord 😛

 

[xtknight]

If it wasn't, I would have a lot of dead video cards and monitors. But alas, I don't. 🙂

I think you're not supposed to hot-plug parallel cables either but I've never had a problem hot-plugging anything.

 

[JMWarren]

I've toasted a motherboards parallel port and floppy controller by hot plugging a printer. Poor 386....