Comments on Jon Schneider's Tech Blog: Adding a 3rd Monitor to a Laptop

Anonymous (1/11/2012), I'm currently using my ...

2012-01-11T17:15:26.615-05:00

Anonymous (1/11/2012), I'm currently using my GUC2020DW6 (the same one I bought back in 2008, when I originally wrote the post above) to drive a Lenovo Thinkvision monitor running at 1440x900 resolution (which is a 16:10 widescreen resolution). So, yes, it works for me!

Hi Jon - was so excited to see this post, as I hav...

2012-01-11T13:54:00.666-05:00

Hi Jon - was so excited to see this post, as I have been trying to figure it out for a while, but am not a tech person. Nonetheless, my question is, does this solution work with a widescreen monitor? In your picture, I can't tell if the IO video card is linked to the regular Dell monitor, or what seems to be a widescreen Samsung. I have two widescreen monitors, so am trying to find a solution where I can hook up both of them to my Lenovo ThinkPad. Any info you have would be tremendously appreciated!

Hey, nice site. I will definitely be visiting here...

2011-11-24T07:25:23.850-05:00

Hey, nice site. I will definitely be visiting here more regularly. I wish that I could add the post and bring a bit more to the table... Quite informative..

Thanks for the great information. I have often won...

2011-01-30T16:27:18.770-05:00

Thanks for the great information. I have often wondered how you get more than one screen connected. Very Cool!

@Anonymous (10/26): A new driver has been released...

2010-04-12T07:57:14.797-04:00

@Anonymous (10/26): A new driver has been released for the IOGEAR GUC2020DW6 that corrects the undocking issue! The Windows service installed by the driver software is now called "DisplayLinkManager" (not "DisplayLink Service"), and on my new Lenovo ThinkPad T500, it automatically handles turning off the 3rd monitor when undocking, and turning it back on when re-docking. It works great.

@Anonymous (10/26): I'm not sure: Unfortunatel...

2009-10-26T16:42:31.842-04:00

@Anonymous (10/26): I'm not sure: Unfortunately, the USB ports on my Lenovo Advanced Mini-Dock all died 13 months after I got it. (Yes, as you might expect, the docking station had a 12-month warranty!) So I just plug the adapter directly into the laptop's own USB port. I just unplug the USB cable (without doing a "safely remove hardware" in Windows) prior to undocking, and everything works fine.

As a suggestion, you might try stopping the
"DisplayLink Service" in Control Panel | Administrative Tools | Services, and see if you can undock successfully after the service is disabled. (After you re-dock, you'd need to restart the service to get the USB video card working again.)

Any trouble un-docking with your setup? I've ...

2009-10-26T11:30:23.088-04:00

Any trouble un-docking with your setup? I've got the same arrangement (but T61 & advanced mini-dock) and even when disabling the display & the device via device manager I still get a message when undocking that it can't undock because the device connected to the docking station is still in use.

Nowadays there are monitor that comes with a USB c...

2009-09-18T15:41:02.810-04:00

Nowadays there are monitor that comes with a USB connection. Does this mean you don't need to use the external converter. Wonder how many USB monitor can be connected to a single laptop, 3 or 4?

Great post...thanks Dad!

2008-12-26T09:52:00.000-05:00

Great post...thanks Dad!

Thanks for sharing that. It is good to know that U...

2008-12-11T20:21:00.000-05:00

Thanks for sharing that. It is good to know that USB is an alternative for monitor extension.. :)