Hello,
I'm attempting to connect my Blade 15 Advanced to a Dell
U3419W display. A direct quote from the
manual that discusses the USB capabilities of the monitor:
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NOTE: Use the USB Type-C cable shipped with monitor only.
- This port supports DisplayPort Alternate Mode (DP 1.2 standard only).
- The USB Type-C power delivery compliant port (PD Version 2.0) delivers up to 90 W of power.
- If your notebood requires more than 90 W to operate and the battery is drained, it may not be powered up or charged with the USB PD port of U3419W.
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Hence, to the best of my knowledge, I should be able to connect to this display via USB C and the Thunderbolt Dock, yes? Unfortunately, when I try, I get the well-known error message:
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Display connection might be limited
Make sure the DisplayPort device you're connecting to is supported by your PC. Select this message for more troubleshooting info.
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The only thing that I can see being an issue is the fact that I'm using
this cable, which does not expressly list that it is Thunderbolt compliant anywhere in the specs. In fact, just now I noticed that the "Data Transfer Rate" on that Amazon page is listed as "0.48 Gigabits per second". That's 480 Megabits, which is USB 2.0's transfer rate and rather shy of the 40Gb/s rate needed for Thunderbolt 4, so I may have answered my own question... will leave the post here until I can try with a new cable!
