So, I have two lovely 24" Dell U2414H monitors purchased from OcUK, and until recently they were being used via HDMI and DisplayPort (DP) out from an ATI 5870. Absolutely perfect, no problems at all.
Fast forward and I now have an Nvidia 970, which has three lovely mini DP's on it, suddenly I'm able to move forward in the technology world and use all DP.
Now the first thing I notice, is that in first boot, neither monitor got any input. I chalked this up to teething problems, and after 3-4 reboots one eventually kicked into life, and then the other, problem solved. Though I don't think this should ever have happened originally?
Now onto my normal day to day use. I turn my PC and both monitors on, and usually all is well. However sometimes, one monitor gets an input, and the other doesn't. This has only happened twice over the course of three or so weeks, but when it happens, it's a real pain, as I have to reboot again to fix it (sometimes several times).
Finally, when I turn off my PC, I tend to turn my monitors off as it's shutting down. With DVI / HDMI, this was fine. However with DP, when one is turned off, the PC goes into single monitor mode, the other monitor flicks off and back on, as if getting told it's now the only monitor plugged in, and when I turn my PC back on again, all my sticky noted have jumped into one unreadable pile on the screen I last turned off
.
The solution I've come to is to never turn monitors off before the PC has fully shut down, but I can't help but feel that all of these problems could be fixed by just using the DVI connections on the monitors instead, so that the signal is always kept alive even when off.
Any thoughts?
Fast forward and I now have an Nvidia 970, which has three lovely mini DP's on it, suddenly I'm able to move forward in the technology world and use all DP.
Now the first thing I notice, is that in first boot, neither monitor got any input. I chalked this up to teething problems, and after 3-4 reboots one eventually kicked into life, and then the other, problem solved. Though I don't think this should ever have happened originally?
Now onto my normal day to day use. I turn my PC and both monitors on, and usually all is well. However sometimes, one monitor gets an input, and the other doesn't. This has only happened twice over the course of three or so weeks, but when it happens, it's a real pain, as I have to reboot again to fix it (sometimes several times).
Finally, when I turn off my PC, I tend to turn my monitors off as it's shutting down. With DVI / HDMI, this was fine. However with DP, when one is turned off, the PC goes into single monitor mode, the other monitor flicks off and back on, as if getting told it's now the only monitor plugged in, and when I turn my PC back on again, all my sticky noted have jumped into one unreadable pile on the screen I last turned off
.The solution I've come to is to never turn monitors off before the PC has fully shut down, but I can't help but feel that all of these problems could be fixed by just using the DVI connections on the monitors instead, so that the signal is always kept alive even when off.
Any thoughts?
) and have determined that this is a huge problem that will never be "fixed".