Second Monitor not working

[SugarPsycho]

Specs:
MSI GeForce GTX 1060 DirectX 12 GTX 1060 GAMING X 6G 6GB 192-Bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready ATX Video Card

AMD FX 8350 8 core 4ghz

Acer E211H (DVI or VGA) (Currently only using DVI-D don't have VGA cords or port)

Acer R240HY (HDMI Functioning)

24 GB ram

So today I booted my pc and my secondary monitor is not displaying anything. It has 2 colors of rings orange is for sleep mode and blue for on currently it is blue so it is not asleep. I updated my drivers (in doing so it worked for 10 seconds), tested it on my family's pc using a different cord (it worked), tested my family's monitor on my pc (using both my cord and their cord worked both times), tested my monitor on my pc using another cord (DVI-D to HDMI, did not work). I have unistalled and reinstalled the video drivers for Nvidia. What else should I try? The monitor has a DVI port and a VGA port however I don't have a VGA on my pc. I also tested a different power source.

 

[bjornl]

Did you check your display properties to make sure the 2nd monitor is enabled?

 

[SugarPsycho]

Did you check your display properties to make sure the 2nd monitor is enabled?

It is detecting them both and says its using both displays, when I take a screenshot it even shows the other display when I paste it into paint (ctrl+print screen) I am going to swap to a different monitor but I will continue to help solve this for other people in the future.

 

[bjornl]

Have you also verified it is enabled in your device manager?

 

[geofelt]

Does the monitor have a switch to select the input source.
Not all are automatic.

 

[SugarPsycho]

Have you also verified it is enabled in your device manager?

Yes

 

[SugarPsycho]

Does the monitor have a switch to select the input source.
Not all are automatic.

I am not 100% percent certain but there does not appear to be, no buttons on the monitor for it and I can't access its GUI, I did post the monitor in the specs.

 

[bjornl]

You used that same cable on that same monitor on another PC, so it is not source select and not that cable. It could be your video card; but unlikely given that a driver update momentarily fixed it.

 

[SugarPsycho]

You used that same cable on that same monitor on another PC, so it is not source select and not that cable. It could be your video card; but unlikely given that a driver update momentarily fixed it.

You may be right I am not sure, the other computer I used and it worked on was a AMD video card, also unplugging it and plugging it back in allows it to run for a few seconds

 

[bjornl]

Have you tried swapping the monitors? move the Mon-1 to cable-2 and Mon-2 to cable-1?

 

[geofelt]

My reading says that the Acer R240HY
has hdmi and d-sub(aka VGA) and hdmi inputs.
VGA is an analog connection but the dvi output on the GTX1060 has no analog capability.
There should be 4 analog pins surrounding the longish spade pin.
It would be called dvi-I.
Herhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interfacee is more info on that:

Your best bet is to buy a dp to hdmi adapter and connect it that way.

 

[SugarPsycho]

Have you tried swapping the monitors? move the Mon-1 to cable-2 and Mon-2 to cable-1?

The problem with that is my DVI monitor only has DVI and VGA. Right now I have a different DVI monitor hooked up with the same cord and it is working. (So there are 3 monitors 1 HDMI 2 DVI). I also only have 1 HDMI port, and one DVI port.

 

[SugarPsycho]

My reading says that the Acer R240HY
has hdmi and d-sub(aka VGA) and hdmi inputs.
VGA is an analog connection but the dvi output on the GTX1060 has no analog capability.
There should be 4 analog pins surrounding the longish spade pin.
It would be called dvi-I.
Herhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_Visual_Interfacee is more info on that:

Your best bet is to buy a dp to hdmi adapter and connect it that way.

I actually swapped the monitors when I posted the problem I will be fixing the listings now the Acer E211H is the one with the actual issue.

 

[geofelt]

Obvious conclusion is that the Acer E211H has a problem.
If there is no input selector to set on the monitor then the monitor is likely defective

 

[SugarPsycho]

Obvious conclusion is that the Acer E211H has a problem.
If there is no input selector to set on the monitor then the monitor is likely defective

I agree that you are most likely correct I wanted to check here because there was a possibility it is not I am going to leave the thread up for about a week for any other suggestions.