u/Educational-Tank-945

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I am running an HP setup with 740pm 5K2K monitor as the primary display connected to an HP Spectre via Thunderbolt 3, flanked by 2 732pk 4K monitors, the first is connected to the Spectre via Thunderbolt 4 and the second is daisy-chained via DP1.4.

The Spectre screen is 2.8K, it has an RTX 4050 with 6GB dedicated RAM, but most of the time it's running off Intel Arc which shares the 32GB system memory.

I know it's a lot to ask from a little laptop, but it works well, most of the time.

The issue is that occasionally, when it wakes from sleep, or I get back to the office and plug the screens in, the 5K2K monitor doesn't automatically connect.

The system detects the display, but it stays in a disconnected state. Selecting "Extend desktop to this display" will generally not work the first time, sometimes it works on the third or 4th attempt, sometimes it doesn't. Windows+Alt+B sometimes works, sometimes doesn't. I always get it working again, but I haven't come up with a set sequence that works, it's just persistence until it connects.

Any idea's on how to avoid this happening, or surefire ways to get it reconnected?

u/Educational-Tank-945 — 13 days ago