Question Surface Pro 11 (Intel) - Four Monitors

[Rallystclair]

Recently received a Surface Pro 11 with Intel i7 Chip.

I like to run four monitors, which i have been doing off a Lenovo laptop for years. I have seen posts of someone running five monitors off a Surface Pro 7, so i thought a Suface Pro 11 would do this without issue. However, to my dismay, when i plugged in my three monitors off a USB thunderbolt docking station, it would only permit three monitors causing me to have to shut one down.

I have seen posts saying you can run more by using monitors that allow daisy chaining. What I can't understand is why daisy chaining would allow this while a docking station would not.

Does anyone have any insight into this and ideally a solution?

 

[American2021]

Do you mean that you can run three monitors off the docking station but when you plug the fourth one directly into the Surface Pro 11 (with the Intel Core Ultra 7 chip) on the left side where the 2 USB-C (USB 4.0, 40 Gbps, DisplayPort 2.1, with power delivery) ports are that it does NOT run all four?

Have you tried that?

 

[Rallystclair]

Do you mean that you can run three monitors off the docking station but when you plug the fourth one directly into the Surface Pro 11 (with the Intel Core Ultra 7 chip) on the left side where the 2 USB-C (USB 4.0, 40 Gbps, DisplayPort 2.1, with power delivery) ports are that it does NOT run all four?

Have you tried that?

Off the docking station i can run the surface screen, plus two additional monitors - even though three are plugged in and worked fine with the Lenovo.

It appears that I should be able to run three additional monitors from each USB 4.0 port. However, it must be done using monitors that support daisy chains (i.e. they have a display port out, but that/s annoying as two of the monitors are 32-inch curved samsung monitors which do not support Daisy chain-ing..

Current plan is to try to run, two external (one 27" with daisy chain, one 32), then will try to run the third external 32" using a USB 4.0 to Display Port Chord.

I just don't get why daisy chain-ing works, but docking stations do not.

 

[Rallystclair]

Do you mean that you can run three monitors off the docking station but when you plug the fourth one directly into the Surface Pro 11 (with the Intel Core Ultra 7 chip) on the left side where the 2 USB-C (USB 4.0, 40 Gbps, DisplayPort 2.1, with power delivery) ports are that it does NOT run all four?

Have you tried that?

So, I have not tried:

1. USB-C4 to three external monitors via daisy chain... Turns off the forth monitor. As soon as you reactivate, say the surface monitor, it kills one of the others.
2. Two external monitors via diasy chain. One (1) external monitor - USB4. As soon as four monitors are hooked up it kills one.

I understand the Snapdragon one has this limitation of three monitors due to issues between that chip and USB-C protocols.

I don't see why the Intel version would be limited in this way.

Help!