As sometimes happens peoples mouths (or fingers in this case) tend to engage with out the help of whatever gray matter the may or may not posses between their ears.
If you were to re-read the original post you will see that #1 we are obviously talking about an IIDS equiped aircraft, so as you correctly stated there would be no 'round' guage to check. #2, which is the point I guess you missed was that there is a TORQUE GUAGE FAILURE. In case you can not understand what that means I will exlain; it means that the digital and slide bar representations HAVE CEASED TO FUNCTION!. So, now MR. Rocket Scientist with a flare for unwanted and unwarranted sarcasm, where on the IIDS instrument pages or elsewhere do you find back up information about the amount of torque you are asking for????