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So yes... I got a new cable. That fixed it. Can someone explain this to me? How did my cable work with my old XPS and not with this new one? Did I break the cable just as I installed the new laptop for the first time? What are the odds of that? Is there some kind of cable tech that I am unaware of? A tech that allows older systems to send a display signal through it, but it doesn't work on newer ones? Any cable experts here? It's solved anyway, but still, I'd like to know. Cheers!

Dear Moonzy, Thank you for the replies. I did not have a different cable laying around of which I was sure it supports display signals. I will borrow one today at work and will try a different cable later when I come home. I'll keep you posted. (haha silly me, what I did try once was truning the cable around. I do know when messing wih dapter cables (which I am not, but still) or in the old anaog days, that directional cables were a thing. So I thought, sure no harm in trying... but to no avail, obviously.)

The Dell XPS 15 XPS 7590 supports DisplayPort 1.2 I believe. Anyhow, the XPS 7590 laptop works flawless with the U2721DE displays at work, and my M27F display worked flawless with the XPS 9560, an older model. So both parts seem compatible to me, but together they sport this weird behaviour.

Hi all, I cannot get my display over USB-C working. Some background: I've got myself a shiny (second hand new) Dell XPS 15 7590. I'm coming from a Dell XPS 15 9560, which was fine untill I trashed it with coffee. I have a Gigabyte M27F display with KVM switch; DP is connected to gaming rig, USB-C is connected to work laptop. This was awesome with my previous laptop; plug in usb C for work, unplug it for gaming, one keyboard and mouse to rule them all. So, I just swapped laptops, kept all the cables the same, but cannot get the display over USB-C working. It worked so well with the previous Dell. (HDMI output works fine tough, so I don't think it's a GPU hardware issue, good assumption?) The laptop charges over it, accepts the KB and mouse, and everything seems to work, but the screen stays black and says "No-signal". Even in windows: the screen is there both in widows Display settings and in the Intel Graphics Command centre. Refresh rate was set to 59, changing this does not seem to impact it. There are no other options as far as I can see. I think I've got all drivers up to date. Got the Geforce experience, did the Dell update, and the Intel Driver support assistant. Even via the windows control panel I tried updating drivers. (This actually rolls back the intel driver, which Intel Driver support assistant then wants to update agian.) Today I tried at work with one of those Dell USB-C docking stations, and with a Dell U2721DE. These both worked just fine! Why? How? I don't understand. Is there any additional info I can help you out with? So you can help me out... I will bake you a cookie if you can help me! Cheers, Me

Hey all, Title pretty much said it all. I'm looking for a wireless ergonomic keyboard recommendation. I would prefer not to spend some crazy amount of money, but around 100$ is fine... I'm not looking for any wacky gimmick keyboards, just something more ergonomic than your regular straight one. Something curvy and/or split. It does not have to be mechanical. Anything goes. It just has to be wireless. Any recommendations? Thanks y'all!

So, I retried this with the new 19.1.1 driver. It's a little different now, the whole "I'll work fine for 1 boot cycle" thingy is gone. When the drivers install midway the installation the screen goes black. The only way I can find to get any image is by connecting the screen to the onboard graphix output. From there I did DDU again, and just tried installing the 19.1.1 again. It get's better, I was randomly browsing around the install files from anything AMD (After DDU'ing) to see if anything remained. Well, a whole bunch of files were still there. Then I came across AMDCleanupUtility.exe, so I ran it and then installed 19.1.1 again: And now my only display output is the crappy Acer display! Neither HDMI ports give any output. And I'm stuck there. 19.1.1 is installed and my GPU only outputs via display port, nothing over HDMI.

Not that I could find. This Mobo is dirt cheap, so not many options in there at all.

Hi, I've got some weird stuff going on concerning AMD's GPU drivers... I've tried looking on the forums, there are some similar problems with the RX480, but I've found nothing that solved this particular case. I'll try to be as complete as possible. Now, I'm not a complete novice, but I'm no PC wizard either. So, any tips are welcome. First the build: CPU: A8-7600 APU with Radeon R7 integrated graphics @ 3.1 GHz (no OC) GPU: Gigabyte RX480 4G @ 1290MHz with current driver: 17.11.1 Crimson (no OC) RAM: 8 GB Hyper X Fury DDR3 MoBo: Gigabyte GA-F2A68HM-H PSU: 650W from Be quiet! Storage: 2x Sandisk Plus 250GB SSD + 2x 500GB HDD from Hitachi, but also Apple branded!? Sidenote: Both the SSD's have windows 10 installed on it. The problems persist on both versions. Case: Gigabyte GZ-X1 Windows 10 x64 Displays: LG-freesync screen connected via HDMI and some ancient square Acer monitor, connected via a Display port to DVI adapter. (This config might be relevant? I don't know) The story of how these parts came together to form this machine, has long been lost in history; idek myself, but it exists! Did I miss anything? So, what is going on with it? The current graphics driver installed is version 17.11.1 When updating the drivers, to anything since Adrenalin (version 18.xx.xx), at first everything seems fine, games run fine, nothing unusual. I tried the latest driver at the time 18.12.2 but also one of the first Adrenalin drivers released, with the same result. Untill the system reboots, then everything goes wrong. When it reboots, the windows logo shows up (On the Acer screen, not even the LG one) the dual boot menu passes, then windows logo again, and then a black screen. No login window, not even a cursor. Windows didn't seem to think the system failed to boot. Explaining everything I tried at this point, would take ages, so let me skip ahead to where it gets interesting: I learned that the black screen is not a black output, there is no output beyond the windows flag. I tried a lot of things, and it took me a while to figure this out: but the display signal doesn't stop, it jumps from the GPU to the unused output on the motherboard. So at this point, the PC is kind of useable, it's just running on the APU's graphics prowess! Which is horrible in comparison to an RX480 ofc. At this point, only installing drivers older then Adrenalin with DDU seem to get the RX480 going again. So here's the question: Why does the APU hijack the systems output, when there is an RX480 available and the latest drivers are installed? Do I need to tell the system to use the RX480 in some way? Is my RX480 simply no longer compatible with these drivers? If sow, why does AMD's software recommend me to update? TL;DR: With any driver since Adrenalin edititon, PC uses APU's graphics instead of the dedicated GPU.

Problem: After windows boots (after windows 10 logo), but before the login screen appears, my monitors go black, no cursor is visible. I run a dual boot config, twice windows 10 (64 bit) one for personal use and one strictly for work, installed on different physical SSD's, not partitions. The problem only occurs when booting to the personal drive, the other one works just fine. Problems started after a windows update on my personal drive a while ago. In the midst of the update, the PC had to reboot, and booted to the wrong drive (Which is weird, the personal drive is set as primary boot drive). I immediately rebooted back to my personal drive, but only got a black screen. Rebooting from there results in a black screen again. Rebooting over and over again doesn't change anything, windows recovery never kicks in. The PC can boot into safe mode (F8 method, luckily boots in safe mode on the right drive). (only my secondary monitor works in that case, I don't know if this is normal?) From safe mode, no windows updates were available, so I guess the update did install completely? So, my next thought was this might be a GPU driver issue, no updates available though, I used DDU to uninstall and reinstall drivers. I got the latest driver from AMD's website. The problem almost seemed fixed at first, the PC reboots during the driver uninstall/installation proces, back in regular boot mode, and then works just fine, until I reboot again. I can repeat this proces of booting to safe mode, uninstalling the GPU drivers reinstalling them and then having everything working, for exactly 1 boot. I tried installing the optional newer version, or an older version of the drivers (Way back to 17.11.1, but the problems persist. I also checked if windows is up to date, checked other driver updates, I checked for malware, I cleaned out dust in my system, ... I tried unplugging the GPU and running on integrated graphics with just one monitor. (AMD A8 7600 APU w/ Radeon R7 integrated graphics) Still boots to black screen. Whenever I want I can boot to the work drive, and everything works fine there, the GPU driver installed there is 18.3.3. Which makes me believe it is not a Hardware problem. Any recommendations to try next? I'm thinking of reinstalling windows at this point... Monitor setup: Primary monitor: LG IPS led monitor connected via HDMI, freesync Secondary monitor: Acer VGA monitor, connected with a display port to VGA adapter Other Specs: Windows 10 (64 bit) Windows 10 (64 bit) (Dual boot, different physical drives) GPU: AMD RX480 from gigabyte CPU: AMD A8 7600 APU w/ Radeon R7 integrated graphics CPU cooler: Hyper 212 EVO MoBo: Gigabyte F2A68HM-H RAM: 8GB of Hyperx something. 2x 250GB Sandisk Plus SSD's 2x 500GB HDD WD HDD's Be Quiet 600W PSU Some brandless case I scavenged. Need more info?

Thanks for the help. I fixed it. After some more googleing I found this guide, I sort of followed it and the problem is now fixed. http://www.sevenforums.com/installation-setup/56812-changing-win7-system-boot-partition-without-reinstall.html

Yh, well. I already moved everything to my SSD savegames and stuff, Installed all of my basic programms and games. I didn't feel like redownloading them, it was a pain in the butt. Is there really no way to move the boot thing? (whatever that may be, I don't really understand how the boot partition can be different from the system partition)

Since my laptop broke I'm building myself a new system. My system uses a new SSD and I'm reusing my HDD from my laptop. I just installed a fresh copy of windows on an SSD, then copied the files I need from my HDD to my SSD, so now i can format that HDD and clear some space. The SSD is the C drive, the HDD is the D drive. When trying to format this HDD it wouldn't let me, it just tells me "unable to format drive." I found out, using minitool partition Wizard Tool, that the C drive is my System drive, but my D drive is the boot drive?!? I cannot boot with either of these drives unplugged. I have tried reinstalling windows from a thumbdrive, using the 'upgrade' option, this way I didn't lose all my files and programs. But that did not work. I there any way I can fix this? Can I make my system boot on C so that I can format the D? How can I do all of this without losing my programs and stuff on my current C drive? (I can obviously lose everything on the D drive.) Is it because the laptop dive had a windows on it, the boot and system drive are now diffferent? (The old laptop ran a 32 bit version of windows though, I'm now using a 64 bit version)

This would be nice to play some games, watch movies, and spent some time with my family at the same time! 2 birds one shot!

So i am building my new pc, i thought i was done... nope! When i press the power button, the lights go on, the fans start spinning, and then nothing. everything goes out again. :'( edit: So seems like i did not connect the 4-pin connecter, only the 24 one. (mATX motherboard) *derp* The thing is, there is no 4 pin connecter from the PSU... should i use an 8-pin or something? Just want to make sure i don't do anything stupid...

Changed the processor to a Xeon E3-1231v3 and the ssd is now Samsung. Ty for the help!