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Ctrl + Alt + F8 affects my monitors despite Intel HD Graphics Control Panel hot keys being disabled.

SSean
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I press Ctrl + Alt + F8 and my monitors connected to my motherboard built-in GPU are disabled. Where are the settings for this? The hot key section of Intel HD Graphics Control Panel does not include this key combination.

OS: Win 10 Pro 64-bit

Mainboard: ASUS Z170 Pro Gaming, board revision 1.04, BIOS v3501

CPU: Intel i7 6700, Stock HSF, Undervolt Offset -0.1 V, VCCIO 1.09 V, System Agent 1.05 V, LLC 4 (all core enhancement DISABLED)

RAM: Corsair LPX Vengeance 2x8GB DDR4-3000 (CMK16GX4M2B3000C15), XMP

Graphics: Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX 950 w/ 2 GB

Sys Drive: Samsung Evo 750 SSD, 250 GB

Data Drives: OCZ Vertex 2 SSD, 60 GB; WDC WD1002FAEX-00Y9A0, ~1 TB; WDC WD2003FZEX-00Z4SA0, ~2 TB; WDC WD2002FAEX-00MJRA0, ~2 TB; RAID 0, ~300 GB [Maxtor 6B160MO x 2]

PCI-E SATA expansion: IOCREST SATA III 4-port PCI-e (SI-PEX40064)

PSU: XFX TS 750W (P1-750S-NLB9)

Bluetooth: Parani UD100 Bluetooth USB Adapter

Monitor: LG 21.5" W2246S-BF 16:9 Wide LCD Monitor 1920x1080 5ms

Logitech G500 mouse, K120 keyboard.

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idata
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Hello THX1138,

Thank you for bringing this matter to the Community.

The combination of Ctrl + Alt + F8 will restore the graphics defaults. I checked my Intel® HD Graphics Control Panel and Hot Key is present there, see below;

So, if you press this key combination it is expected for the monitors to be disabled since it is taking you to the default settings.

Regards,

Amy C.

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SSean
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Okay, thanks. Why then, isn't the hot key disabled with the others when I select 'Disable Hot Keys'? I want to assign Ctrl + Alt + F8 to another function in another program but I want to do this without disabling my monitors each time. Could this please be taken as a feature request? Thanks.

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idata
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As you can confirm in the Intel® HD Graphics Control Panel this combination is set as default, but of course I will send your feature request to the proper department. Hopefully it can be considered for future driver releases.

Regards,

Amy C.

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