{"id":7002,"date":"2019-05-25T22:00:24","date_gmt":"2019-05-26T02:00:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/?p=7002"},"modified":"2019-05-26T13:26:46","modified_gmt":"2019-05-26T17:26:46","slug":"a-windows-reinstall-with-real-problems-broken-promises","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/benies-blogs.com\/general\/2019\/05\/25\/a-windows-reinstall-with-real-problems-broken-promises\/","title":{"rendered":"A Windows reinstall with real problems \/ Broken promises"},"content":{"rendered":"

Got done reinstalling Windows an hour and a half ago. Now the reinstallation was blazing fast, but only one of my monitors wants to connect at anytime (can’t get both to connect). There’s got to be something I’m overlooking. Has to be. I don’t think this is ‘a sign I fried something’, because it would had shown after the upgrade.
\n–
\nUsed the 128GB USB stick I used before (that I used to move the edited PS4 game review videos to my computer for upload to YouTube) as my Windows 10 installation ‘disc’. Waited an hour to properly format the thing (though Windows did its own mode of formatting). Left it in and restarted, and it booted itself up. What was odd is the process happened in my secondary monitor (instead of the primary).
\nAfter wiping out the SSD of everything and installing Windows, I took the USB stick out for it to continue with the installation. This is when I started noticing strange, erratic behavior with the primary monitor (which was causing the secondary monitor to ‘black out’ at times). Unplugging the primary, the issue went away with the secondary and I finished the setting up in… what I would say record time compared to installing from a CD.
\nNoticed the taskbar was white instead of blue.. very odd color choice, Windows. Anyway, I quickly downloaded and installed the latest drivers for my video card, and
\nrestarted (feeling this should get things going). Plugged in the primary.. again with the same erratic behavior (and this time with wild color changes in the secondary, with it flickering and stuff).
\nUnplugging the secondary, the primary still isn’t working right. But I managed to get it by removing the second (HDMI to DisplayPort adapter) and only plug in the HDMI, and adjusted the adapter properties to use 70 hertz (and did the same for the secondary by unplugging the primary).
\nBut plugging them both in, now both monitors don’t display anything (with the primary again trying to connect but failing). Or sometimes, I can get the primary working with the secondary being detected (just not displaying anything), then when I set the setting
\nto ‘extend to both displays’, both monitors go dark.<\/p>\n

This is unlike the first time I had this graphics card, where it was only a matter of shuffling the cables around. I have tried that with no success. It’s like, I can no longer have dual monitors. I feel I fucked up when I had both monitors attached during the install of
\n10, and don’t think another try is going to undo it. This is the first time I installed 10 with this card, so it could also be something I’m not seeing (or an update from Windows I haven’t gotten yet).<\/p>\n

EDIT:<\/strong> I ‘fixed’ it by having both monitors in their HDMI ports, but by doing so.. I can’t use WMR. Something is wrong with the DisplayPort slots on the graphics card (all the sudden). All I can hope for is the HDMI to DP adapter to work for WMR.
\n—
\nEDIT2:<\/strong> I don’t know what the FUCK I did, but I got everything working!! So I tried to do the above, and MR Portal kept saying ‘check your display cable’. Clearly it has to be a direct connection to an HDMI port. Unplugged it and plugged in the primary, this time the secondary wasn’t freaking out. I pushed the DisplayPort adapter further in and heard a loud bang sound or something, and saw the primary turn on!
\n
\n…Don’t. fucking. tell<\/strong> me<\/span> that all of this time I’ve been trying to troubleshoot this damn thing, I. didn’t. have. the plug, all the way in. Oh my god, such a rookie mistake!! Though I think it was also because Windows remembered the settings for my multi-monitor
\ndisplay. But this is good to know the next time I need to reinstall Windows (and I still have this card).
\nAnyway, I plugged the HDMI cable of my headset in the now free port, and it wants me to pair the controllers. This is a good sign there’s nothing wrong with the headset.
\nI can only pray all of that hell, was worth it (and the problem with my headset disconnecting itself from my computer) will be in the rear view mirror.
\n—
\nEDIT3:<\/strong> …Fucking HELL, not even a reinstall of Windows will fix it!! It happened again from just chilling out with Frost and friends. I’m nearly convinced that it’s now a hardware issue with either the graphics card, or the motherboard.
\nHowever, there’s one thing that didn’t<\/em> happen, and that’s the sudden spazzing of both the headset and the controllers. That’s not to say it won’t happen eventually, but the fact it didn’t happen shows it fixed one thing.. just not the main thing.
\nI have switched cables to put the headset’s USB 3.0 cable down at the bottom\u00a0 the so-called ‘Gen 2’ of USB 3.1), where it should be at the highest priority. If it happens again, I don’t know what the fuck to do at this point, as I’ve tried everything (that doesn’t cost money I don’t currently have).
\nFortunate enough to get both of my monitors to work together again. Thought for sure the primary was dead, and I would be stuck with only one monitor for months. Thank God that wasn’t the case!
\n——————-
\nBroken promises<\/strong> (Turns out I’m not like Wufy afterall..)<\/span><\/em>
\nSince I’m having these issues, I used Discord on my phone in order to ask anyone I could think of if they know what’s going on. Kovo however, asked me if I’m there and then starts posting some stuff. It took awhile until I realized it was a conversation with him and
\nFrost… something happened between him and Wufy.
\nAsking Frost myself.. it seems Wufy lied about being committed to the relationship (to change his life). Fuck. What a time to be having this issue, when I could be in-game giving Frost a huge hug. But, I gave him a hug on Discord.
\nNow there’s confirmed reports that Wufy deleted his Discord account. I can only assume he now knows what he just threw away; a chance to be happy for the rest of his life. Though he did say he was strongly considering on removing everything online and starting over. If this is what he wants, I wish him luck. In ways I’m glad he’s putting his mind to
\nit (more than I would do).. guess that means I’m actually not<\/em> like him afterall. I’m not willing to go through something that drastic (though his reasoning for change is he doesn’t want to hurt anyone else).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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