Any reason why my monitors would cycle off and on again out of nowhere?

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jmiles301

So I just got my new system and things are running great for the most part, I have had two weird things happen that I just wanted to run by some of you smarter tech people as to why they might be happening..

1 - It seems as though when my computer goes to sleep and then wakes back up that it moves all of my esignal charts that were originally on my onboard video card extended monitor over to my primary monitor that is on my p620 card (so basically it crams those charts on top of the other charts that were already on the primary monitor), which is obviously a bit annoying because then I need to move it back, any reason as to why it would do this?

2 - The reason above was originally going to be the only reason why I wanted to reach out to you guys on here for some thoughts/assistance, but just a moment ago all of my monitors cycled on and off momentarily (out of nowhere, it's never happened before) and when that happened it essentially took my entire esignal layout and crammed everything onto my primary monitor after they briefly went off and on, any thoughts here?
 
This is like Windows reshuffling after you unlock the pc.


If you wake up the pc after putting it to sleep, all your displays will be messed up.

Don't put your pc to sleep.


About the unlock problem, you can Google for solution. But there is no solution.
People can go to the moon but Microsoft cannot fix windows reshuffling problem.
When pc started to use the new DP display port, this problem surfaced.
Windows 10 supposed to fixed it but it is bs.
If you use the old hdmi ports, no such problem
 
jmiles301 said:
So I just got my new system and things are running great for the most part, I have had two weird things happen that I just wanted to run by some of you smarter tech people as to why they might be happening..

1 - It seems as though when my computer goes to sleep and then wakes back up that it moves all of my esignal charts that were originally on my onboard video card extended monitor over to my primary monitor that is on my p620 card (so basically it crams those charts on top of the other charts that were already on the primary monitor), which is obviously a bit annoying because then I need to move it back, any reason as to why it would do this?

2 - The reason above was originally going to be the only reason why I wanted to reach out to you guys on here for some thoughts/assistance, but just a moment ago all of my monitors cycled on and off momentarily (out of nowhere, it's never happened before) and when that happened it essentially took my entire esignal layout and crammed everything onto my primary monitor after they briefly went off and on, any thoughts here?
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That's the kind of thing that might happen with your running 2 "types" of video card... your P620 and onboard. (W10 Extended Desktop is accommodative, but not 100% of "everything". W10 may not like running 2 cards from different manufacturers... or maybe not even different models from the same manufacturer. When running 2 video cards, best to have them both be the same model. However Nvidia lines are backwards compatible, so running P620 and NVS 310 together should be no problem so long as both cards are on Nvidia's support list for the particular driver version.)

Suggest unplugging the onboard and run just with the P620. If the problem goes away, and you still want that 5th monitor, get an NVS310/1GB on eBay used for ~$15.

Addendum... I just checked Nvidia driver downloads... Looks like the latest driver version that will run both cards is R390. (The most current version is 510, but the NVS 310 isn't supported. If you want to run the most current driver you'll have to get a newer model of card than the 310.)
 
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'Unfortunately', your new P620 card comes with 4 mini DP ports.
If there were HDMI ports, you can experiment with them.
 
maxinger said:
'Unfortunately', your new P620 card comes with 4 mini DP ports.
If there were HDMI ports, you can experiment with them.
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Not really.

I don't know of any 4-port cards that support HDMI. TVs have HDMI (and NO DP... I've checked 6 TVs and none of them had DP port, so I presume none have it)...all the multi-port video cards are DP. I suspect one might run "4x TVs as monitors"... but since I haven't found any TVs with DP, you'd be dealing with "DP-HDMI" signal conversion. That works, but it's NOT a "no brainer". (I know... I have one running a single "TV as monitor" in my game room... not sure about doing it with multi TV/Monitor display.)
 
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I seem to recall similar behavior with my setup a loooong time ago (20+ years) which I believe was related to sleep mode function. I don't know what the solution, if any, is.

But back then TradeStation required PC to be up and running (screens could go to sleep) to collect data 24x7 otherwise you would have gaps in globex charts. Once it became server driven issue went away. Before this though occasionally everything would shift to main screen once I "woke" it back up, also if I had a power outage/blip before investing in a good UPS.

I'd say avoid using sleep mode, if possible.
 
jmiles301 said:
So I just got my new system and things are running great for the most part, I have had two weird things happen that I just wanted to run by some of you smarter tech people as to why they might be happening..

1 - It seems as though when my computer goes to sleep and then wakes back up that it moves all of my esignal charts that were originally on my onboard video card extended monitor over to my primary monitor that is on my p620 card (so basically it crams those charts on top of the other charts that were already on the primary monitor), which is obviously a bit annoying because then I need to move it back, any reason as to why it would do this?

2 - The reason above was originally going to be the only reason why I wanted to reach out to you guys on here for some thoughts/assistance, but just a moment ago all of my monitors cycled on and off momentarily (out of nowhere, it's never happened before) and when that happened it essentially took my entire esignal layout and crammed everything onto my primary monitor after they briefly went off and on, any thoughts here?
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If you have Windows 11, it comes pre-installed with an option to save pre-determined position of windows on your multiple monitors: https://www.thewindowsclub.com/remember-window-location-on-windows-11

There's probably a free 3rd party utility out there that does something similar for Windows 10
 
Windows sleep/hibernate modes can have dramatic effects on system components such as network interfaces. These are are typically restored ater some time (a few hundred milliseconds to a few seconds) after you come out of such a mode. In my experience, WiFi reconnection can add more time to this too.

This can have a cascading effect on any trading software that you use that is expecting a viable connection.

For a trading PC, I recommend you disable all suspend/hibernate settings. It just causes unnecessary issues that many apps can't handle.
 
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