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Hi there, I work in a colocation room and I heard a rumor today that I need verified / denied.
When you power on a Windows 2000 machine without a monitor attached - and you go to attach a monitor AFTER turning on the power - Does the monitor display the desktop after the fact?
Yes it does show the desktop or logon screen that you would see normally, when monitor had already been connected.
But what if the monitor wasn't connected on startup?
System flow:Powering ON -> No monitor attached
Then attached a monitor while power was still ON -> Does the desktop display show?
If you can help it, it's not a good idea to do that though...there is a risk of damaging a component. Are you troubleshooting a problem or what?
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Yes it does.
You may have heared about monitor switches, where you can use one monitor for several computers.
So when you start all the computers, only on has a monitor connected to, but when you switch to another computer, you will get the display of it.It works.
paulsep answered your question... "Yes it does show the desktop or logon screen that you would see normally..."
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