Can Surface pro run dual external monitors?

Anonymous
2013-02-05T22:36:00+00:00

With the ports configuration and specs of the announced Surface Pro, can one run  dual external monitors? By that I mean connecting two external monitors, one for primary display and one for extended display. Irrelevant what shows on the actual Surface screen.

This is the current configuration I have for my heavy laptop (with docking station) and want to recreate it if I swap to the cool Surface Pro.

I don't mind buying some port replicators, as long as the set-up works seamlessly once connected. I saw some other threads and no docking station is planned by Microsoft at this stage

Thanks for input

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Anonymous
2013-02-06T01:53:48+00:00

Greetings ManlioV,

That's a great question. Because the Surface Pro is running Windows 8, you could get a USB port hub and USB video cards and the Surface Pro would be able to install the drivers so you could hook up multiple monitors that way.

Hope that helps.

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  1. Anonymous
    2013-03-11T17:58:45+00:00

    I did post the issue on their forum but haven't gotten any replies yet.  We have tried a win 8 laptop with the same dock, it had no issues in fact it didn't need the drivers downloaded, but to get it to work on the Surface Pro, the drivers were needed.

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  2. Anonymous
    2013-03-11T16:38:01+00:00

    I can confirm there is a problem after loading the docking station drivers made by DisplayLink.  Even with the WIN8 new driver on their site.  If you try to watch a video using either Xbox video or using the Netflix app, the app gives an error and it doesnt play.  However if you browse to Netflix or browse to Xbox video it works playing the video in the browser window.

    Removing the port replicator drivers/display link drivers puts everything back to normal.

    I went to the Intel site and noticed there is a newer graphics driver for the built in HD4000.  It didnt seem to make a difference.

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  3. Anonymous
    2013-03-10T04:27:26+00:00

    If you disable the DL drivers (if possible), any difference?

    This is beginning to sound like a DL problem. Have you contacted them at all or tested on another device, such as a laptop with Win8?

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