Strange boot

[SJM1960]

I have vista installed and hooked up my television to my computer. I set up the dual monitors in the nvidia control panel with my LCD monitor as the primary display and the TV as second. Everything works great except that when the computer boots, the motherboard splash screen and my dual boot screen only shows on the TV, which is in another room. The only way I can see the start up screen is if I unplug the TV. How do I get the the start up to show on my monitor instead of the TV without unplugging the TV every time. Once the computer gets past the dual boot screen it does change to the LCD monitor with no trouble. I just don't know why the the first part of the boot only shows on the TV.

Any ideas?
Thanks

 

[pat mcgroin]

Mine did the same thing.
Swap the cables. On mine the primary is the plug closest to the MB.
Then in the control panel swap the primary and the secondary monitors.

 

[SJM1960]

I am not sure which cables you are talking about. My monitor is plugged into the DVI conector and the TV is plugged in via an s video cable. Am I missing something?

 

[pat mcgroin]

No I thought you had 2 dvi cables.
I have a GTX and it has 2 dvi outs and svideo on back and switching to the other dvi solved it for me.
Im not sure why it would send to the svideo

 

[SJM1960]

I do have a vga plug and a dvi plug, my monitor is plugged into the dvi with an adapter, could I plug in the monitor into the vga instead?

 

[pat mcgroin]

Its worth a try.

 

[SJM1960]

That solved it..thanks!