[DualBackdrop365]

I have an old laptop from 2010-13 which worked completely fine for about 10 years but now it has a weird issue due to which it somehow recognises that there's an external monitor connected to it even though I haven't connected any external monitor to the same laptop and the worst part is that it keeps connecting and disconnecting very often which is very irritating when it happens. I've tried reinstalling and updating my drivers but nothing works

[Mike Norvak]

What happens if you actually connect a monitor?

[DualBackdrop365]

Mike Norvak, on 09 December 2023 - 08:33 AM, said:

What happens if you actually connect a monitor?

I dunno haven't tried it yet. I've thought about doing that once but my monitor's plug doesn't fit in

[Forge]

generic answer - go to the device manager and delete all the pnp ghost monitors under the display settings and turn off hyper-v

[DualBackdrop365]

Forge, on 10 December 2023 - 09:40 AM, said:

generic answer - go to the device manager and delete all the pnp ghost monitors under the display settings and turn off hyper-v

already tried deleting the ghost monitor it doesn't work (the ghost monitor will reconnect again in a few seconds) and I don't think there's anything called hyper v on my laptop

[Hendricks266]

With a device of that age, and especially in a cooling-constrained situation such as a laptop, I would expect an issue like this to be a hardware fault disrupting the circuitry such as tin whiskers or microfissures.

[Forge]

Hendricks266, on 12 December 2023 - 12:47 PM, said:

With a device of that age, and especially in a cooling-constrained situation such as a laptop, I would expect an issue like this to be a hardware fault disrupting the circuitry such as tin whiskers or microfissures.

possible.
my next suggestion would have been to look under ease of access/accessibility & see if a sticky key was assigned to the function-f key to connect an external monitor

[DualBackdrop365]

Forge, on 12 December 2023 - 03:05 PM, said:

possible.
my next suggestion would have been to look under ease of access/accessibility & see if a sticky key was assigned to the function-f key to connect an external monitor

Firstly whenever I reinstall my os or buy a computer sticky keys are the first thing that I turn off as most of the games crash when I use them(I don't have any reason to use them anyway)

and secondly I prefer using arrow keys over wasd so there's no point of remapping a key which is so far away from arrows

[DualBackdrop365]

So I've noticed something weird... the ghost monitor doesn't connects automatically anymore which really strange cuz I've been experiencing it for two years and I've tried so many things but nothing worked. I even took the same laptop to a few computer shops and even they were confused about this problem.

But anyway I still appreciate the help I got from you guys. Cheers

[DualBackdrop365]

DualBackdrop365, on 15 December 2023 - 09:51 PM, said:

So I've noticed something weird... the ghost monitor doesn't connects automatically anymore which really strange cuz I've been experiencing it for two years and I've tried so many things but nothing worked. I even took the same laptop to a few computer shops and even they were confused about this problem.

But anyway I still appreciate the help I got from you guys. Cheers

Alright alright I take my words back it's happening again

[Forge]

DualBackdrop365, on 08 December 2023 - 11:55 PM, said:

I have an old laptop from 2010-13 which worked completely fine for about 10 years

Hendricks266, on 12 December 2023 - 12:47 PM, said:

With a device of that age, and especially in a cooling-constrained situation such as a laptop, I would expect an issue like this to be a hardware fault disrupting the circuitry such as tin whiskers or microfissures.

most crap built after 2003 is only designed to last about 5 years before it starts failing.
unless you feel like taking it all the way apart and sticking the board in the oven, you should look at investing in a newer laptop

[DualBackdrop365]

Forge, on 16 December 2023 - 05:10 PM, said:

most crap built after 2003 is only designed to last about 5 years before it starts failing.
unless you feel like taking it all the way apart and sticking the board in the oven, you should look at investing in a newer laptop

Nah I was thinking about buying some console as it would be a lot cheaper than any decent pc for gaming

[DualBackdrop365]

Alright so I've found a really weird workaround for this problem completely accidentally.
So I was just messing around with my monitor trying to fix a completely unrelated crash for a game and while this non existent monitor was not connected I created a new ghost monitor which stays connected all the time and selected the option to display on laptop screen only. While this does not stops the non exsistent monitor from connecting it does add another ghost monitor which stays on all the time preventing this non existant monitor from interupting my display.

[DualBackdrop365]

I dunno why but I just want to laugh and cry at the same time.
Like dude it's been about three years since this issue came up and I've wasted so much time and money trying to get it fixed.