Hardware, The Devil
2023-07-18 18:17![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
razielimDid the undeleteable folder actually stay deleted this time? No.
But! Did I successfully connect my two new monitors to my laptop? Also no, lmfao.
I'm not the best at identifying ports, so I just trusted the online manual for my laptop. Turns out I have a funky early model that doesn't actually match the manuals available on Microsoft's site. Hilarious. Monitors come in, and I can't hook them up. Pheewwww. After 2 hours of research, including a brief spiral into "Oh god, what if I can't connect it to my laptop at all? I have to build a PC much sooner than I intended, don't I? Ok, how do I do that?" I figure out my best option for connecting one of the monitors, which is just fine because one of them has output capability, which means I should be able to daisy chain. Ha.
So I run off to the store, get the adapter, hook up the first monitor. Yes! 4k, 60Hz, fantastic. Hook it up to the second monitor, aaaaand the second one isn't showing up. With this NEW question, I go back to google. Reddit pops up and says, "Oh, yeah, you wouldn't happen to have bought this one particular type of monitor, would you? Yeah, it only daisy chains if you have DisplayPort 1.4, and 1.4 only, all along the connection." Pffffff.
So now I have one monitor that's an external display to my laptop and... another that's an external display to my iPad.
Unexpected, but... you know. It works for now. I just have to load all my reference photos onto my iPad instead. It's not the best resolution this way, and it's not convenient, but it's not a brick either, so that's a consolation.
The important thing is that I've finally made progress. I've been so worried about getting the wrong thing that I've delayed this purchase for something like two years now. Which, ehhhh. Now that I did actually get at least one thing that's wrong, I'm not too concerned.
Because I did intend to someday put together a PC, so this gives me a constraint, somewhere to start. I need outputs that would make my ideal monitor setup work. Period. Would have been more of a pain in the ass if I built my PC without any idea of potential problems. And, bonus, this made me realize that I should also look into what a Cintiq needs so that IF I ever buy one, I'll have a PC that has ports available for it.
Editing to add: Dear lord, the new resolution, at this screen size, is so thick and juicy and sexy.
But! Did I successfully connect my two new monitors to my laptop? Also no, lmfao.
I'm not the best at identifying ports, so I just trusted the online manual for my laptop. Turns out I have a funky early model that doesn't actually match the manuals available on Microsoft's site. Hilarious. Monitors come in, and I can't hook them up. Pheewwww. After 2 hours of research, including a brief spiral into "Oh god, what if I can't connect it to my laptop at all? I have to build a PC much sooner than I intended, don't I? Ok, how do I do that?" I figure out my best option for connecting one of the monitors, which is just fine because one of them has output capability, which means I should be able to daisy chain. Ha.
So I run off to the store, get the adapter, hook up the first monitor. Yes! 4k, 60Hz, fantastic. Hook it up to the second monitor, aaaaand the second one isn't showing up. With this NEW question, I go back to google. Reddit pops up and says, "Oh, yeah, you wouldn't happen to have bought this one particular type of monitor, would you? Yeah, it only daisy chains if you have DisplayPort 1.4, and 1.4 only, all along the connection." Pffffff.
So now I have one monitor that's an external display to my laptop and... another that's an external display to my iPad.
Unexpected, but... you know. It works for now. I just have to load all my reference photos onto my iPad instead. It's not the best resolution this way, and it's not convenient, but it's not a brick either, so that's a consolation.
The important thing is that I've finally made progress. I've been so worried about getting the wrong thing that I've delayed this purchase for something like two years now. Which, ehhhh. Now that I did actually get at least one thing that's wrong, I'm not too concerned.
Because I did intend to someday put together a PC, so this gives me a constraint, somewhere to start. I need outputs that would make my ideal monitor setup work. Period. Would have been more of a pain in the ass if I built my PC without any idea of potential problems. And, bonus, this made me realize that I should also look into what a Cintiq needs so that IF I ever buy one, I'll have a PC that has ports available for it.
Editing to add: Dear lord, the new resolution, at this screen size, is so thick and juicy and sexy.
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Date: 2023-07-19 08:07 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-12-04 20:28 (UTC)no subject
Date: 2023-07-29 10:06 (UTC)(And for thick, juicy, sexy screen resolution. )
And you learned some useful info along the way. (I would be sitting in the middle of the floor crying and am seriously impressed you figured this out.)
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Date: 2023-12-04 20:19 (UTC)