I thought but without any real evidence that the computer restart would assign the number 1 to the Main monitor - that's the way they've ended up on my machines.

If not, we'll probably have to enquire what adaptor(s) is/are driving each monitor. It's possible that Windows is assigning number 1 to whatever monitor is on the first detected GPU.

It's infuriating.

I connected the AOC with a displayport cable, put it in DP slot 1.
I connected the Samsung to DP port 2.

Booted up the system.
AOC is still monitor two. It shows my desktop (with all the icons rearranged).
The Samsung doesn't display anything. It's recognized as a "Display device on: Mobile PC Display" and it's monitor one. It runs in 640x480.
Detect doesn't do anything.
Extending to the other display makes the AOC go black until it reverts the changes.
Duplicating the desktop shows the desktop in 640x480 on the AOC only.

My GPU is a Radeon RX470 - 8GB. It's using the 18.12.3 drivers (and funnily enough, the Settings screen is telling me the whole time that newer drivers are available: 18.12.2 ... something broke here)

Edit:
Put HDMI cable in to figure the Samsung out. Didn't work either. -> had to reset the connection detection on the monitor to get that to work.
Switched back to Displayport cable. Works now.
Samsung is still after all this work monitor 1 (DP2), AOC monitor 2 (DP1).
Sigh.

Wouldn't shock me to find out that it sorts based on a manufacturer's ID number or some such thing that is embedded in ROM.

And while I do run two monitors at work on W7, I just said f it and set them to display the way I want ignoring the numbers.

Well, while the numbering isn't fixed yet, it seems me getting another UHD monitor did fix my other problem: that of moving icons and open programs due to one monitor waking up slower than the other or one port of connection waking up slower than the other. The BenQ was attached via DVI, the AOC HDMI 2.0; now both monitors are attached via DP. I've disabled the power saving timer on the Samsung and so when I turn my computer off, it'll just go into stand-by mode. Then when Windows wakes back up, although the AOC is slow waking up from its slumber, I haven't seen any of the previous moving of desktop contents to the monitor that was awake already, and then move everything back to the other. So fingers crossed that's fixed.

On average, about 600 minutes...
...a month.

How about you?

Einstein is having issues

Error during SSL Handshake with remote server

Einstein is having issues

Error during SSL Handshake with remote server

Einstein sent Notice that they'd be down for maintenance today. (In BOINC Manager --> Notices)


TL

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Have TARDIS, will travel...
Come along K-9!
Join Calm Chaos
Pluto is still a planet

TL, thanx I forgot that.

TL, thanx I forgot that.

And it seems they have run well past the end time.

I suspect the work changed some stuff behind the scenes. Remember they have one server that has to talk to the other. I believe they are doing this for extra security. They might have to change a firewall to fix it and it might not be a firewall where they have remote access.

Yes, it is a grand outrage.

Einstein message boards are back up.

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Well, on the upper left coast it's early New Year's eve and I got a new grumble. I came home from a short shopping trip and my daily driver had a whole bunch of errors while computing doing Seti with it's GTX1060. I switched it over to Einstein and It's GPU tasks also did the same. I guessed the GPU must have gotten corrupted. I went to the device mgr and uninstalled the GPU and rebooted. Boinc said I had no usable GPU. I then quit processing exited Boinc and rebooted things came back, apparently working properly. I wonder wtf actually happened.

BOINC fora going for a break as I'm replying to Jord's pm......

First Monday in 2019, first overtime.

Likely just long enough so the road work starts before I make it home!

If they don't fill in the potholes you'll be grumbling about that as well. ;)

i came home at 4:45 PST and found the cable TV doesn't work now I've been hold with my provider for over 10 mins.

It turned out I was on hold for 45 mins before someone spoke to me. He pinged the cable box and things started working. What a delightful waste of time.

F'in doze update last night, broke file sharing!
then after undoing the downdate, it erased the custom firewall settings!!!

Haven't used doze this century or not on my own machines at any rate. Would blocking the M$ domain(s) in the router be a way of stopping automagical updates?

Haven't used doze this century or not on my own machines at any rate. Would blocking the M$ domain(s) in the router be a way of stopping automagical updates?

It is W7, so it can be shut off, but there is an idiot who insists on surfing the web off the machine, so it does need updates.