How to do I connect 3 external monitors to my surface pro 7?

Anonymous
2020-05-12T02:02:56+00:00

I have connected 2 monitors to my microsoft surface dock and my 3rd monitor using usb-c to hdmi, but i cant run 3 at the same time. why is this so? How to fix this? 

As soon as I unplug one of the monitors the other 2 work, in any combination.

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  1. Anonymous
    2020-05-12T03:31:05+00:00

    Hi WendyMiller23,

    Thank you for reaching out Microsoft Community. 

    You can only extend your Surface display using the Surface dock to 2 external monitors and connecting the 3rd monitor directly to the Surface device using an adapter will not work at the same time simply because the Surface device processor can only support 2 monitors at a time. You can only use the 3rd monitor if you are to daisy chain it to other monitor that is connected to the dock but daisy chaining is just simply letting you replicate the display of the monitor where it is connected to.

    If this answers your question, feel free to mark this post as an answer. Otherwise, don't hesitate to respond to this thread if there's anything else that needs to be addressed.

    Kind Regards,

    Crest_Z

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  2. Anonymous
    2020-07-03T08:25:00+00:00

    Actually I have successfully connected my SurfacePro with 3 monitors using the surface dock.

    2 of my monitors are connected using HDMI via the dock & the 3rd is connected directly to my SurfacePro using the mini-displayport to VGA adapter. 

    I'm restricted to enabling a 4th via my SurfacePro itself. It disables one of my monitors when I enable the SurfacePro as monitor via the display settings.

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  3. Anonymous
    2020-08-04T15:16:17+00:00

    B.Trehan-Young I was wondering that you were able to do that with 2 HDMI and 1 VGA but not 3 HDMI correct??

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  4. Anonymous
    2020-08-25T01:22:10+00:00

    Hi,

    Can you give a bit more detail?

    Do you second and third screens show different items, or do they just replicate each other? 

    And what is the mini-display port adaptor? I've only got a HDMI port and a USB c. 

    I bought a mini-hub to take the USB C feed and split it into HDMI for one external monitor and RGB for a second external monitor, but it just replicates the image on both screens (but its different to the laptop screen.)

     Ideally, I like to have three completely independent monitors. Did you do this?

    Thanks in advance.

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  5. Anonymous
    2020-08-25T01:24:10+00:00

    Just re-read your post... do you mean "docking station" when you say "dock"? 

    I thought you mean port (as in the two ports directly on the surface pro). Please correct me if I am wrong.

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