BIOS will only display on VGA monitor

[kris_hm]

Okay, i have a quad monitor set up. All of the monitors are hooked up to a single graphics card and all will work at the same time. I have 3 monitors set up on an arm on my desk. And the 4th monitor is my TV which is across the room hooked in by a 25ft HDMI. The other 2 monitors are connected via DVI-D.
When i start my computer my bios will only display on the monitor i have hooked to the VGA port on my card. Which is also the monitor to the right of my main display. I would like my bios to display on my center monitor. I would just flip the VGA and DVI connections to get it centers, but the bios display is much clearer on the DVI and i want it to look nice and clean.
I tried unplugging all my monitors except my main display, the one i want the bios to display on. I restarted the computer thinking this would make it work.
After plugging all my monitors back in though my computer reverted to the setup i had originally.
My main display is considered my 2nd monitor according to my computer. And my TV is 1st. The VGA monitor is 3rd. I read that the number of the monitor you want it to be displayed on needed to be 1 but that doesn't seem to be the case here or it would display on my TV which it does not.
I have no other graphics cards installed.
Also, i tried switching the DVI cables up just to see if the monitors would switch, only at the graphics card. I just swapped them, but the displays did not change. Its like my graphics card knows which monitor is which no matter what port is it plugged into.
Does anyone know how i can force it to display on my DVI monitor? Or even on all monitors?
I'll be satisfied with either of those. I either want it to display on my center monitor on my desk, or i want it on every monitor. Any ideas?

 

[MerrJ0210]

Bios should display on what you have set as the primary monitor in Windows, otherwise it sets itself to the first port on the gpu.

 

[4745454b]

I have the same issue on a similar setup. But I don't have any VGA setups. It's all DVI, and mDP to DVI. (and of course the 25' HDMI cable.) The difference I have is my port one seems to be the mDP ports. I say ports because when I go into my bios it shows up on BOTH of the mDP monitors which are my side ones. My center monitor is on the dual link DVI port. Basically I decided I didn't care. I don't go into my bios enough to worry about the fact that it's on my side monitors and not center. I'm assuming the case is the same for you because lets face it, we use our computers to go online and play games.

 

[kris_hm]

Is there a way to change the first port on the GPU then?
I tried setting the monitors properly, my screen number 2 is set as primary but the bios displays on screen number 3 anyway. And screen number 1 is my TV but even with the TV on the bios does not display to it. It continues to display to VGA.
Before i had my VGA monitor hooked up it would display to DVI but it would always display to my left monitor. Even flipping the cables around at the GPU did not change this as it seems to be aware which monitor is which... smart GPU.
Believe it or not while i do have a semi powerful computer i do not play games on it. I use it to edit videos and do photoshop, and i do repair work on computers. I have cut my case so i can draw sata and extra cables out from my power supply so i can easily connect hard drives to my computer without having to take the side off and adjust. Sometimes when you need to boot a HDD the easiest way is to have it plugged in as though its an internal drive. While USB drives do work they can be slow and sometimes will refuse to boot. I use my computer mostly for these things and school work. I love this set up. This quad monitor set up is great for multitasking and i can just turn my TV on and drag netflix or hulu over to it if i wanna watch TV.
So any more ideas? I found a page that says i can edit the registry to uninstall the monitors forcibly and then it does on to say only plug in the monitor you want to be number 1 first and boot it then plug in the other monitors. Some say this works and some say it does not.
I was going to try uninstalling my graphics card and using my onboard graphics with a single monitor temporarily just to see if that would help. The GPU remembers which monitor is which, it will not reassign them for some reason. I had unplugged all but 1 monitor and rebooted, and this forced my only screen to be assigned as number 1. However, when i plugged the rest of my monitors back in the GPU reassigned the previous numbers to them again exactly as they were.
I have read that Nvidia cards have this issue? Perhaps there is no way for me to change this?
I just felt like there might be because when i first set up my monitors my BIOS would display on a DVI port even when the VGA monitor was plugged in. But it was displaying to the left. I wanted it to be center screen. So me and my infinite wisdom, i unplugged and swapped the DVI cables at the GPU. But this just made the BIOS display to the VGA monitor and now i cannot revert it no matter what i try.
I need to clear the memory of whatever is remembering my monitors. If i can atleast make my computer reassign them so that 1 is my center screen, i can see if the BIOS will display here or not. If it continues to display on the VGA port after this then i have to assume that at the boot level i cannot control which monitor it displays to. Or uninstall the monitors somehow, but just unplugging them isnt enough. Then install them 1 at a time?
The TV used to me my only monitor.. so perhaps that is why it is number 1. That doesnt explain why the BIOS displays to VGA and not the TV though. UGH lol

 

[4745454b]

Again, how much time do you spend in the bios? This is way to much work/effort for something that doesn't really effect your life in any way. I understand how awesome multi monitors are which is why I have my setup. (I've even got it working so I can play a movie on my TV, while I play games on my monitor and the sounds don't cross over.)

The only way this can be fixed that I can think of is to edit the bios on the card. Change port 0/1 so that it's the center monitor. Problem is changing it will most likely break other things. Unless you really spend THAT much time in your bios I'd honestly just ignore it. My center monitor doesn't turn on until windows is ready for the password so when I first turn on my PC I get nothing on my center screen until windows loads. (I normally leave my surrounds off unless I need them for power saving reasons.) But because I don't really ever turn my PC off this doesn't bother me.

 

[kris_hm]

Again, how much time do you spend in the bios? This is way to much work/effort for something that doesn't really effect your life in any way. I understand how awesome multi monitors are which is why I have my setup. (I've even got it working so I can play a movie on my TV, while I play games on my monitor and the sounds don't cross over.)

The only way this can be fixed that I can think of is to edit the bios on the card. Change port 0/1 so that it's the center monitor. Problem is changing it will most likely break other things. Unless you really spend THAT much time in your bios I'd honestly just ignore it. My center monitor doesn't turn on until windows is ready for the password so when I first turn on my PC I get nothing on my center screen until windows loads. (I normally leave my surrounds off unless I need them for power saving reasons.) But because I don't really ever turn my PC off this doesn't bother me.

I understand what you're saying and you're right. I do not spend that much time in the BIOS usually, atleast not all at once. I go into it, i change 1 setting, maybe 2 and thats it. Its just a matter of preference. I want my computer to work the way i want it to. It would be nice, but if i cant make it work then il just have to deal with it. I just want some other opinions to see if there was a solution or a work around to this. Even without help i will continue playing with this until i either find a work around, or just get tired of trying. So if you or anyone else has any other ideas, im all ears. Until then i will look into the registry suggestion i found earlier and i will look into editing the BIOS of my GPU. I probably wont do it in the end but i will atleast look into it.
Thanks!