Comment on Fix one thing... break another
GregorGizeh@lemmy.zip 5 months ago
I recently ran into much the same problem, a power outage fried my second screen. My computer wouldn’t recognize it any more, no matter which port and which cable I used. I even ordered a fucking HDMI to DisplayPort adapter to try if that made any difference. Sadly to no avail, because when that one didn’t work either, and I already knew the screen was still working from running a smart TV dongle on it.
Eventually I had the brilliant idea to switch the HDMI cable to the second input on the screen itself and not just the graphics card, and that finally did the trick. The outage had apparently fried HDMI input 1 on my second screen.
Horrible_Goblin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
You’re pretty much describing the process i went trough, with some altered details. Power outage fried my HDD, ended up replacing it. Suddenly monitor doesn’t work after reconnecting it. Tried the DP cable i had lying around, tried the 2nd HDMI port, both with the same HDMI cable and a different one. Tried a different monitor. (i don’t have a 2nd system I could hook my monitor to, but at this point I’m fairly sure it has to do with the HDMI port of the GPU which I simply don’t have the funds to replace… Might have a guy look at it, maby he knows something I don’t)
MrNesser@lemmy.world 5 months ago
GPU would have been next step you might give knocked it when ghe box was open
Horrible_Goblin@lemmy.world 5 months ago
yeah that’s where my head is at as well… I’m just not yet emotionally ready for that reality