Windows 10 cannot connect my other monitor

youiee

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Hi all,

I am currently using my 2nd monitor as my usual main monitor will not connect. Last night I had gotten both to work with almost no problems but after turning on the PC today the main monitor will not connect (always says HDMI; power saving mode) and Win10 has switched to my (usually secondary) monitor to be my main.

The main monitor is a LG FLATRON W2442PA connected to the GPU via HDMI and the secondary monitor is a LG FLATRON M2362D connected to the GPU via DVI.

When I go into device manager it shows that only one Generic PnP monitor is there.

My GPU is a GTX 660, Intel i7-4770k @ 3.5ghz. I have also tried updating my GPU with nothing new happening.

This is not the first time this issue has happened, it usually only happened when I unplugged the cables from the GPU when moving or reorganizing cables. Usually I only had to unplug/replug the cables or restart the computer a couple of times and it would be fine.

Thanks for any help.

UPDATE : I fixed it! I just switched the HDMI sides
 
Solution
You go into its settings not the settings on the computer

One of the buttons on the monitor should bring up a menu

Is this the first monitor?

There's 3 different monitors for the 2nd one. what you said, the PT and PM . Which one?

Even tho it says Generic monitor, it will still work. It just means Windows doesnt have the driver for it


youiee

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Thanks for the reply, I'm not too sure how to change the frequency when the monitor itself isn't registering on the computer?