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You know, the power buttons that you can never find, unless you are trying to change a setting.ģ: See if you monitors have a configurable standby mode. This is what I do, but it wastes power, and if you have a monitor that is not LED lit, it slowly bakes the tubes that are basically like miniature florescent lights.Ģ: manually touch the power buttons on the monitors to make them wake from being off. When coming out of sleep, the monitors are woken, but they take too long to wake, so the computer assumes it's a different configuration, which is 'kind of' like what it should do, 'technically' but not in reality.ġ: never put the computer in sleep mode, use a screen lock and a screen saver. When you do a cold start up, the monitors wake before the computer has started it's configuration, so for the most part, that is safe. The base issue is that the monitors don't always come on at the same time. The real solution is that they need a lock on the configuration, as I have been in a recording studio many times when the AC or video plug gets pulled out of where it is supposed to be, and the multiple screens pretty much explode. He confirmed that having a lock function would fix the port to the monitor, regardless of the state, and would prevent the computer from re-ordering the displays, and in addition, in a recording studio environment, if a monitor is accidentally unplugged, in the LOCK mode they would not re-order. The ones that shut off may not turn on at the same time, so the first one on is sometimes the wrong one and it becomes the main display. The ones that stay in standby, will always come up correct. I am a manufacturer and I am dealing with Energy Star as we speak. With no active electronics, the displays are off, and the computer has no indication that the monitor is there until it starts back up. In addition, the EU Energy Star requirements are going to force displays to turn off after a few minutes. They shut off, then when the computer wakes up, is has to come on first, and there are no monitors until one comes alive. If the computer goes to sleep, the displays will follow. I am currently leaving mine on all the time and just have a screen saver.

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The software is designed to do that, but they said they can now see that it can be an issue if the display turns off. That is the point where the problem starts. The Engineer confirmed today, The issue is that some monitors can go into standby and stay there, and some wait a few minutes and then shut off. If it sees a dead port, (display off) it will respond to the first one that comes up.

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The serial number have nothing to do with the display order.

hold the Option key while you click on the (Detect Display) button that will appear in Displays preferences (from another display).

at insertion of the Mac-end of the display-cable, provided everything on that cable is ready-to-go.

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at wake from sleep - so momentarily sleeping and waking your Mac may work.

This query is only sent at certain times: 'No signal detected' is generated by the DISPLAY, not by the Mac. Otherwise, the display will not be shown as present, and no data will be sent to the display. To get a Mac display to become active, you need the Mac to query the display, and the display to answer with its name and capabilities. The Mac uses a system that reminds me of “Plug and play” to determine what display is connected, and what its capabilities are. The displays swap around because the Mac ALWAYS derives display information (including name and capabilities) by querying the connected displays, ONLY. This is not a case of display position not being remembered properly.

If you didn't want that feature, you could unlock it and leave it unlocked. It would also stabilize a setup where a cable gets pulled out in error, which instantly reconfigures the other screens. The simple solution to this would be to have a little gold lock, like on so may system configuration screens, that if locked, would keep the current configuration, regardless of a monitor being on or off at the time of startup. (keeping them in sleep mode alleviates the problem) With the EU and other countries getting stricter about power save modes, you sometimes cannot keep the monitors in sleep mode for more than 30 minutes. They don't always start at the same screen, which creates a problem. When the Mac comes out of sleep mode, if the monitors have shut off, they are triggered to start up. They suggested to submit a feature to This is what I wrote: The engineer told me that the more people suggest it, it will become an option. I did that, and it's an issue that they feel is correct, and is the way it works.