OT: Thunderbolt and Displays Question – Need Assistance/Advice Please!

[Gary Adcock]

[Neil Goodman] “Now the first thing i tried to do when i got the LBD, is daisy chain the Asus monitor from it using the same generic mini display to hdmi adaptor, leaving the Intensity Extreme on its own TB port. Should be cool right?. Nope, while the monitor does display an image, its like someone put one of those “solar negative” type filters on it.”

Thats because you are using a video device that is controling your video output.

Try setting the Monitor to see the video signal as YPrPb video rather than Display RGB. I have this issue all the time with projectors ( many of which will NOT allow the change)

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[Neil Goodman]

[gary adcock] “Thats because you are using a video device that is controling your video output.

Try setting the Monitor to see the video signal as YPrPb video rather than Display RGB. I have this issue all the time with projectors ( many of which will NOT allow the change)
“

sweet thanks. Ill try to mess with the settings today. If not seems like minidp to DVI will do the trick and is only a few bucks.

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Neil Goodman]

If anyone cares. It was the old generic minidp to hdmi adapter that was the culprit. Got a new adaptor from mono price.com and it worked just as it should, coming off of the lacie!

Neil Goodman: Editor of New Media Production – NBC/Universal

[Chris Love]

I care! Just plugged in my Lacie drive, ASUS monitor and cheap adapter to find the same problem. Stumbled on your post and just ordered a new adapter from Monoprice. If this works, you just saved me a lot of headache!

[Chris Love]

Update: even though the Lacie tech help people said “this only supports Thunderbolt-compatible displays. You can’t do what you’re trying to do,” the Monoprice adapter works great. The one I got is called the Monoprice Mini DisplayPort | Thunderbolt® to HDMI® Adapter w/ Audio Support and was $6.65 on monoprice.com (https://www.monoprice.com/products/product.asp?c_id=104&cp_id=10428&cs_id=1042802&p_id=5311&seq=1&format=2)

[Tyler Casselman]

FWIW, I have a samsung monitor (relatively new) connected to my MBP via HDMI -> DVI cable connected with a DVI -> Thunderbold/MiniDisplay adapter (apple brand) daisy chained to a laCie 2big 4TB thunderbolt drive. I am seeing the same symptoms as the OP.

[Barbara Burst]

While troubleshooting, found this thread… just to add some…

I have a MacBook Pro I’ve been succesfully daisychaining >Lacie Tbolt 4G>miniDP/DP adaptor>NEC Multisync 27″ monitor. It worked like a dream since I bought it a couple of months ago. Suddenly yesterday it did not work hooked up through the drive, but did work if I took the drive out of the chain and hooked directly from the MacBook via adaptor to monitor (maybe it is Lacie that’s a bug in the works here). As I was checking to see if I could do anything in setups with RGB v YUV, I also played around with restarting and switching the cables on the deck ports. I couldn’t change any setups, but somehow unplugging/restarts got things up and running again.