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P2414H, MacBook Air, dock, issues
I recently bought a P2414H Dell monitor for my office work. Since I am using a Macbook air I also bought a docking station to connect all my peripherals. While all of them appear to work normally the screen that I connected trough a display port or VGA goes into power save mode and in no way it leaves it. I read tons of posts regarding this but was not able to fix the issue. Can someone please help me out. Thanks
manfredo89
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November 23rd, 2015 01:00
Apparently the Belkin B2B044-C00 USB 3.0 docking station needs "drivers" even on a mac. I installed them from the belkin website and now the screen works properly.
DELL-Chris M
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November 22nd, 2015 19:00
The P2414H was never validated on Apple.
But, can you test the monitor directly to the MacBook Air?
MacBook Air Thunderbolt/mDP out --> Apple Thunderbolt/mDP to DP cable --> P2414H DP in
If that works, then you have narrowed down the issue to the docking station.
manfredo89
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November 23rd, 2015 00:00
@Chris In a certain sense I already tested your suggestion, I tried
MacBook Air Thunderbolt/mDP out --> Apple Thunderbolt/mDP to VGA cable --> P2414H DP in
and it works properly. However I also tried the docking station with another laptop in the same configuration and it works properly. What to do?
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November 23rd, 2015 05:00
For my notes, what specific Belkin dock model?
manfredo89
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November 24th, 2015 01:00
It is the Belkin B2B044-C00 USB 3.0
In fact although I managed to make it work by installing the display link drivers, there are still some issues. In particular after turning the screen off I am stuck again in power save mode. The workaround is to uninstall and reinstall the drivers which is not very handy. For the moment I guess I will leave the screen on always.