When installing an audiovisual system, a user connects a laptop to an HDMI distribution amplifier with two monitors connected. The first monitor shows the laptop screen without any difficulty, the second monitor does not. The likely cause is:

In this scenario, the correct answer is related to EDID, which stands for Extended Display Identification Data. EDID is a data structure provided by a display to describe its capabilities to a video source, such as a laptop. When a laptop connects to multiple monitors through an HDMI distribution amplifier, it relies on the EDID information from those monitors to determine the optimal resolution, refresh rate, and other settings.

If the first monitor is displaying correctly while the second monitor is not, it could indicate that the laptop is not receiving accurate or any EDID information from the second monitor. This could happen due to several issues, such as a faulty HDMI cable, a defective monitor, or compatibility problems between the laptop and the second monitor. As a result, the laptop may not be able to configure the display settings correctly for that monitor.

While other terms like FPGA, DDC, or DHCP are also related to technology and displays, they are not the most relevant to the issue at hand. For instance, DDC (Display Data Channel) is a communication channel used for sending EDID data, but it is essentially a part of the process. DHCP (Dynamic Host Configuration Protocol) is used for networking configurations and is unrelated to the functioning of display connections. FPGA