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Hi,
I am having a issue that I am guessing is not a bug but some feature either with Windows or monitor...but it may cause me headaches.
I have 4 monitors at my desk. I have 2 just connected to one PC, 1 connected to just another, and the 4th I want to be able to connect to either of them by having a DP cable to 1 PC and a HDMI PC to the other.
The weird thing is that when I want to us the DP connected PC, the PC that is connected using HDMI still detects the monitor and so therefore my mouse can go off the screen and onto that monitor, even though I cannot see what it is doing as I see the output from the other PC.
What is even stranger is that I can unplug the power and the DP cable, and my PC still detects the monitor, just with the HDMI cable plugged in.
This doesn't work on the DP port that's connected to another computer.
The HDMI connection goes into an HDMI port on my GTX 1080 on PC 1.
The DP port goes into the onboard DP port on my old Z77 motherboard with a 3770K/Intel HD 4000 CPU.
I have tried looking for obvious things to kill this behavior and just set it so when I switch inputs on the monitor it just totally disconnects from the PC on the other input source.
The monitor in question is an old Dell U2410.
Any help appreciated.
Many thanks.
I am having a issue that I am guessing is not a bug but some feature either with Windows or monitor...but it may cause me headaches.
I have 4 monitors at my desk. I have 2 just connected to one PC, 1 connected to just another, and the 4th I want to be able to connect to either of them by having a DP cable to 1 PC and a HDMI PC to the other.
The weird thing is that when I want to us the DP connected PC, the PC that is connected using HDMI still detects the monitor and so therefore my mouse can go off the screen and onto that monitor, even though I cannot see what it is doing as I see the output from the other PC.
What is even stranger is that I can unplug the power and the DP cable, and my PC still detects the monitor, just with the HDMI cable plugged in.
This doesn't work on the DP port that's connected to another computer.
The HDMI connection goes into an HDMI port on my GTX 1080 on PC 1.
The DP port goes into the onboard DP port on my old Z77 motherboard with a 3770K/Intel HD 4000 CPU.
I have tried looking for obvious things to kill this behavior and just set it so when I switch inputs on the monitor it just totally disconnects from the PC on the other input source.
The monitor in question is an old Dell U2410.
Any help appreciated.
Many thanks.