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Title: Hide boot screen but then show Windows on monitor (TV)
Post by: arcadeswede on October 21, 2011, 08:25:14 am

Hi!

Is there any way to hide the boot screen and when it boots into Windows it shows up on my TV?
The picture is good while in windows but before that it's scrolling alot.

Is it possible to get some kind of adapter or anything?

Title: Re: Hide boot screen but then show Windows on monitor (TV)
Post by: Donkbaca on October 21, 2011, 12:48:59 pm

In your bios, if you have onboard video, and a video card, you can set it to boot to the onboard video as your primary and your videocard as your xecondary.  So what happens is it boots up, sends a signal to the onboard, then switches to your video card.  It takes a few seconds for this to happen and by the time the secrren lights up, it should be past the boot phase.  This is what I did...

Title: Re: Hide boot screen but then show Windows on monitor (TV)
Post by: arcadeswede on October 21, 2011, 04:05:05 pm

Quote from: Donkbaca on October 21, 2011, 12:48:59 pm

In your bios, if you have onboard video, and a video card, you can set it to boot to the onboard video as your primary and your videocard as your xecondary.  So what happens is it boots up, sends a signal to the onboard, then switches to your video card.  It takes a few seconds for this to happen and by the time the secrren lights up, it should be past the boot phase.  This is what I did...

Perfect!
I'll try that.

Thanks!

Title: Re: Hide boot screen but then show Windows on monitor (TV)
Post by: MonMotha on October 21, 2011, 04:12:15 pm

A JPAC or similar with only the 15k setting enabled will also accomplish this.

You can build a circuit to do it pretty easily using a small micro like an Arduino, but that's not plug and play.