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Edward A. Dauer

Requesting help with computer issue -

Maybe a bit OT but I need counsel from someone adept with either Windows 10 or with MS Surface laptop or, possibly, both.

Problem: Cannot get display onto outboard monitor (an ACER). What does show up is my background picture and the task bar, but nothing else. Tried almost every app I have. In particular, N1MM which I am trying to use for the FD this weekend.

Major points - this combo worked just fine for at least two years. Today it doesn't. I tried toggling the display items in Settings, including "identify display." It replies that there aren't any to identify. But there is one, and the screen saver picture shows up on it, so I know they're communicating. I must have messed up some setting - or Windows did when it "updated" the OS (grrrr. . . .)

Help, anyone? Contesting without the Big Screen is a pain . . .

Tnx!!

Ted, KN1CBR

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Re: Requesting help with computer issue -

On 6/27/2020 2:01 PM, Dauer, Edward wrote:

> Maybe a bit OT but I need counsel from someone adept with either
> Windows 10 or with MS Surface laptop or, possibly, both.

> I must have messed up some setting - or Windows did when it
> "updated" the OS (grrrr. . . .)

I've had to bail out my wife's Surface and my own Dell tower and laptop
over issues like this. It's a driver problem. Sometimes it needs an
updated driver (from ACES on your case) but sometimes all it takes is to
reinstall a fresh copy of the existing driver as if it never existed.

Using any Surface or laptop without a big screen is a pain. I just
up-sized to a 27" - the largest that would fir the geometry of my
operating position.

Let us know what happens, Ted.

73 de K2ASP - Phil Kane
Elecraft K2/100 s/n 5402

From a Clearing in the Silicon Forest
Beaverton (Washington County) Oregon
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Nr4c

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Shutdown and restart the Surface.

Have you tried moving the mouse all along All Efges to see if you can access the errant display?

Try rearranging the displays in Display Settings.

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...nr4c. bill

> On Jun 27, 2020, at 5:03 PM, Dauer, Edward <[hidden email]> wrote:
>
> Maybe a bit OT but I need counsel from someone adept with either Windows 10 or with MS Surface laptop or, possibly, both.
>
> Problem: Cannot get display onto outboard monitor (an ACER). What does show up is my background picture and the task bar, but nothing else. Tried almost every app I have. In particular, N1MM which I am trying to use for the FD this weekend.
>
> Major points - this combo worked just fine for at least two years. Today it doesn't. I tried toggling the display items in Settings, including "identify display." It replies that there aren't any to identify. But there is one, and the screen saver picture shows up on it, so I know they're communicating. I must have messed up some setting - or Windows did when it "updated" the OS (grrrr. . . .)
>
> Help, anyone? Contesting without the Big Screen is a pain . . .
>
> Tnx!!
>
> Ted, KN1CBR
>
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Re: Requesting help with computer issue -

What type of adapter between your surface and your screen? A windows update stopped mine from working. I use a USB-C to multi port adapter ad I had to buy a new one after the update.

I have a surface pro laptop.

Hank
K4HYJ

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From: Nr4c
Sent: Saturday, June 27, 2020 8:55 PM
To: Dauer, Edward
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Subject: Re: [Elecraft] Requesting help with computer issue -

Shutdown and restart the Surface.

Have you tried moving the mouse all along All Efges to see if you can access the errant display?

Try rearranging the displays in Display Settings.

Sent from my iPhone
...nr4c. bill

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