Quadro assignment to instance without display connected

When running two or more Quadro’s, assignment of a specific instance to any quadro not plugged into a display results in an error, forcing the system to fallback to the primary display device. Is anyone aware of how to do instance assignment without a display connected to the specified gpu?

In the Quadro driver you can save an edid while a display is connected, disconnect it, and then load that (or any other) Edic to simulate a connected display. The setting is somewhere in the NVidia control panel under system topology