[dba-Tech] Suddenly second monitor not recognized

[Jim Lawrence]

Hi Arthur

I heard it was a well designed film; spectacular special effects and a well written script.

As the price of thumb drives goes down it, I like having a few around. Any Linux distro will fit comfortably on a 32 GB USB. The latest Ubuntu 15.04 64 bit server ISO with GUI is only 1.1 GB in size so you can probably run up a live version on any old thumb drive you happen to have around. (It only takes 385MB of RAM to run it)

Jim 

----- Original Message -----
From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 11:50:39 PM
Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Suddenly second monitor not recognized

Hi Jim,

I used to have my 64GB thumb drive configured to boot Linux but then I
needed it for other purposes so now I have to rebuild it, and prior to that
find the article that I followed in order to build it. But a simple Google
should get me there. Thanks for the idea. I shall try it.

As I write this, it's 2:14am. One of the strangest aspects of increasing
age is the lack of need to sleep. I've never been a heavy sleeper but now
I'm down to 4 hours per day. Which is not to be interpreted as I get a lot
more done. Hell, no. I spend most of the time reading or watching movies.
And speaking of movies, yesterday I saw the new Mad Max, in 3D. Wow. From
the opening scene in the first Mad Max, I knew it was going to be a great
movie (a crane shot, slowly elevating to reveal Max's car coming over a
hill in the distance). In the new Mad Max, Max is a peripheral character.
It's all about the Charlize Theron character. Ms. Theron has previously
delivered stellar performances and add this one to her list.

Ok, Time to search for that article that told me how to create a USB Linux
boot disk.

A.

On Mon, Jun 1, 2015 at 11:01 AM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:

> Hi Arthur:
>
> Hopefully it is just a Windows 10 thing and nothing to do with the
> hardware. Gustav should be our regional expert on the latest flavour of
> Windows. I, myself am not even sure how you would get to the section that
> handles the Windows display. The system at the very least should detect all
> connected video devises. If the OS shows all the devices then I would chalk
> the problem up to a device code driver issue. If all the devices are not
> shown, I would become more concerned as to whether all the hardware is
> working as it is supposed to.
>
> If you have either a Linux partition or can run a "Live" Ubuntu via your
> USB, it will tell you whether your hardware is working right...as it has
> always worked first time and every time, I tend to trust its
> responses...and in particular its results would remove the Win10 OS from
> equation...either a clean bill of health or a legitimate driver problem.
>
> Just a thought
> Jim
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Arthur Fuller" <fuller.artful at gmail.com>
> To: "Discussion of Hardware and Software issues" <
> dba-tech at databaseadvisors.com>
> Sent: Monday, June 1, 2015 12:55:03 AM
> Subject: Re: [dba-Tech] Suddenly second monitor not recognized
>
> Jim,
>
> Maybe. I finally got past the boot problem and Windows 10 is running as the
> base OS. Maybe I should have installed it as a VM, but I liked it so much
> better than Windows 8.1 that I bit the bullet. The puzzling thing is that
> for a while it did recognize the second monitor, but now it doesn't. O
> well. Maybe the final release will fix it. Meanwhile I suppose I could try
> something else, like swapping monitors with my ancient tower.
>
> A.
>
> On Sun, May 31, 2015 at 8:07 PM, Jim Lawrence <accessd at shaw.ca> wrote:
>
> > Hi Arthur:
> >
> > Is your OS a single type with virtual drives or has the hard drive been
> > made into multiple partitions?
> >
> > The current Windows 10 is just a beta and until it comes out in its final
> > version I would keep it separated in it own VD...maybe not even then. Do
> > you have a system backup and can format and re-install?
> >
> > Jim
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