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Re: External monitor not waking

From	Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com>
Newsgroups	comp.sys.mac.misc, comp.sys.mac.hardware.misc
Subject	Re: External monitor not waking
Date	2018-04-25 14:38 +0000
Organization	People for the Ethical Treatment of Pirates
Message-ID	<fkbi6vFp0s0U1@mid.individual.net> (permalink)
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On 2018-04-25, Daniel Cohen <dcohenspam@talktalk.net> wrote:
> My Mac is a 2011 MacBookPro running OS 10.13.4. This is connected by
> Thunderbolt to a Belkin dock, which in turn is connected to a Dell
> U2414H monitor.
>
> Most of the time this works fine, but recently (not sure if it started
> when I went to 10.13.4 or whether it had happened on 10.13.3) the
> monitor sometimes refuses to wake up when I wake the computer from
> sleep. That is, the monitor insists on remaining in Power Save mode, and
> in fact says "entering power save mode" when the computer wakes.
>
> So far I have solved it by a mix of turning monitor on and off,
> disconnecting power cable of monitor and reconnecting it, and restarting
> the computer. But I haven't found a consistent set of steps to get it to
> work.
>
> Any ideas for more diagnostic steps, or even a solution? As I said, this
> is an occasional problem, usually the monitor becomes active as soon as
> the computer wakes, but it occurs often enough to be troublesome.

Which model Belkin dock is this?

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External monitor not waking dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2018-04-25 08:15 +0100
  Re: External monitor not waking nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-04-25 05:22 -0400
    Re: External monitor not waking dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2018-04-25 13:41 +0100
      Re: External monitor not waking nmassello@yahoo.com (Neill Massello) - 2018-04-25 08:23 -0600
        Re: External monitor not waking Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-04-25 14:46 +0000
      Re: External monitor not waking nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-04-25 11:51 -0400
        Re: External monitor not waking Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-04-25 16:19 +0000
          Re: External monitor not waking nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-04-25 12:23 -0400
            Re: External monitor not waking dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2018-04-26 08:09 +0100
              Re: External monitor not waking nospam <nospam@nospam.invalid> - 2018-04-26 10:31 -0400
              Re: External monitor not waking Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2018-04-29 11:20 +0100
                Re: External monitor not waking dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2018-04-29 19:15 +0100
                Re: External monitor not waking Chris Ridd <chrisridd@mac.com> - 2018-04-30 17:35 +0100
    Re: External monitor not waking Wade Garrett <wade@cooler.net> - 2018-04-25 15:46 -0400
  Re: External monitor not waking Jolly Roger <jollyroger@pobox.com> - 2018-04-25 14:38 +0000
  Re: External monitor not waking MartinC <noreply@nospam.invalid> - 2018-04-26 13:27 +0200
    Re: External monitor not waking dcohenspam@talktalk.net (Daniel Cohen) - 2018-04-27 07:30 +0100

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