Disable displayport?

[Nymaz]

I recently bought a prebuilt system with a PowerColor HD 6870.
It has 4 outputs: 1 displayport, 1 HDMI, 2 DVI
My main display is connected to the HDMI and a secondary VGA monitor connected to one of the DVI via an adapter.
I've got Win 7 Home premium, and the latest 11.2/8.821 drivers installed
I generally have awesome performance with one nagging issue - every time my system comes up from a boot, I will see BIOS, then Win splash screen, then both displays will go black. I've found a temporary fix by booting into safe mode, diddling with the display settings and rebooting.
I'm pretty sure the issue is that it is defaulting to output to the displayport. Is there a way to disable that or force HDMI to be the default?
Thanks in advance for any help.

[caveman-jim]

No, and that doesn't sounds like the problem to me. If you have nothing connected to the DP output it shouldn't use it either at the BIOS or in Windows. Have you tried hotplugging your HDMI connection when it goes black?

[Nymaz]

Unfortunately, hotplugging does not make a difference.
My "outputting to dp" theory seemed to fit the facts, but I'll be the first to admit my specialty is not video cards, so if anyone could offer a competing theory I'd be all ears.
If it helps, there's one difference I didn't mention - when it is going to go black (and note it's black, not off, my displays are both detecting a signal), the Windows logo (on both) has an extra aura around it that isn't present when it will be booting to show the HDMI/VGA displays.
Oh well, if nothing else, I'll try to get a DP->HDMI adapter see if that makes a difference.

[Dyre Straits]

Whether it's relevant or not, I'm not sure. But, I DO know that, even when I have my DP-connected monitor disabled, during the POST and Windows Start screens, I DO get the images on my DP-connected...although DISABLED...LCD.

But, I DO ALSO get the display on my main PRIMARY screen. You should be at least getting that.

You might try making the VGA screen your primary for a test and then reboot to see if you do get a display during boot.

[caveman-jim]

When you post the card uses DP attached displays first, but if you don't have anything connected to the DP output, it's disabled.

Sounds like you're having HDMI display detection issues, check in CCC Displays to test different settings to make it remember your active screens.

[Nymaz]

After switching the VGA to primary, changing a few settings in CCC, and then switching the HDMI back to primary, the detection issues seem to be resolved. It's now detecting the monitors properly each time even after several reboots. Strangely enough, when I tried it with my VGA as the only monitor early into my troubleshooting, it didn't work... weird, but considering everything seems to be working now it's a mystery I can live with.
Thanks for all your help, guys!

[Dyre Straits]

Originally Posted by Nymaz

After switching the VGA to primary, changing a few settings in CCC, and then switching the HDMI back to primary, the detection issues seem to be resolved. It's now detecting the monitors properly each time even after several reboots. Strangely enough, when I tried it with my VGA as the only monitor early into my troubleshooting, it didn't work... weird, but considering everything seems to be working now it's a mystery I can live with.
Thanks for all your help, guys!

I thought that might get things going in the right direction. Glad you got it sorted out.