schreinereiner wrote:
I'm afraid my test run with the Accell hub will have no happy ending and I will be returning my unit.
While it resolved tearing completely I am now also dealing with monitors going into power save ALL THE F@#$%!NG time. I've played around with power settings both on the pc and monitor, different DP cabling, and monitor settings without success. It's not entirely predictable and just switching between Catalyst presets usually leaves me with blank monitors that need to be powercycled. Sometimes that doesn't help either. I've had occurrences where on boot none of the monitors powered on. Once I get them to stay on I do get non-tearing eyefinity on my three monitors but the erratic behavior of my monitors going into power save mode just isn't worth it. *sigh*
All these monitors going black and other such modes might just be a basic problem. It could all be from the power source itself, with so many things plugged in to 1 outlet or even a room at a time could drain it to a point some things start failing, or just protecting itself as a built in measure. As you increase the load of power drain be it from anything that ramps up the power consumption, just be even surfing the web.
You will have to try something else by running the power from that MST to another room or possibly other end of house. Most rooms even several, will be running from one source, that’s outlets and possibly Lights, depending on the Elect that wired the place. I am a Carpenter by Trade and seen a lot Different ways each Elect like to wire, I also build and rebuild a lot of computers, got 20+ years of parts in basement
. But one thing almost all of them like to do is, since most bedrooms are in one area and usually never running much of a load, be it 1-4 rooms all plugs will be on 1 circuit, dens, living rooms, kitchens and such rooms almost always on their own circuit, so best run from one of them.
I have even had slight monitor shuttering due to this just before the computer locks up, and/or CTD's to compensate for power loss. Allot of the newer Surge arresters the last several years, even have dedicated plugs marked for certain things, reasons for this is if power starts to drop, it starts dropping connections itself protecting such things as the main PC as well. We use to see this a lot when we upgraded to newer Graphics cards but not upping the power supply as well, and in doing so we start a game and seemed like we lagging or we just always CTD, that’s the mother board reacting to the low power as well.
Hope this helps and works as its last idea I got for what’s happening.
PS sorry for long explained post, just like detailing reasons behind something’s, and possibly giving insight that may help for other reasons