Wiring It Up
Aug. 6th, 2025 10:03 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
billroperI have managed to assemble the dual monitor stand and get the new refurbished monitors hooked up. Unfortunately, I have discovered that the ports on these monitors are not what I had expected -- or else my memory of what the ports are on the monitors in my office is faulty. But these monitors do not have a display port passthrough to allow you to daisy chain them, which I *thought* the monitors in the office had. Maybe they do, but I'm not going to go messing around in there to try to figure it out.
So I have verified that the rather peppy processor in the new studio computer should run up to *four* displays on the Intel Integrated Graphics at the stunningly high 1080p resolution that I need here. All I need is a display port splitter. I have ordered one. And another display port cable. And a USB adapter brick to power the display port splitter. And another power strip so that I don't have to steal every extension cord in the house. *And* a mini-DP to display port cable which I am pretty sure will work with the monitor that I am sending to school with K and the new laptop that is waiting for her there.
Gretchen sent me a text asking when I would be done in the studio and I explained that I was ordering cables. This made her laugh, because *every* time I go to wire something in the studio, more cables are in order.
So I have verified that the rather peppy processor in the new studio computer should run up to *four* displays on the Intel Integrated Graphics at the stunningly high 1080p resolution that I need here. All I need is a display port splitter. I have ordered one. And another display port cable. And a USB adapter brick to power the display port splitter. And another power strip so that I don't have to steal every extension cord in the house. *And* a mini-DP to display port cable which I am pretty sure will work with the monitor that I am sending to school with K and the new laptop that is waiting for her there.
Gretchen sent me a text asking when I would be done in the studio and I explained that I was ordering cables. This made her laugh, because *every* time I go to wire something in the studio, more cables are in order.