I was given an old HP monitor today to try out to see if it works. It's used, manufactured 2019.
I hooked it up to my work Surface doc. I already have a 27" QHD Viewsonic monitor attached to it. The HP fired up and works well.
The WEIRD thing is, when first hooked up, the resolution looked to be the same on both monitors (ie, QHD). The positioning of the new monitor in Windows didn't match reality, so I went into Settings, and I could see the layout was 2 1 3, with 2 = HP, 1 = Surface, 3 = Viewsonic. The rectangles representing the HP and the Viewsonic were the same size.
I rearranged the rectangles to match the physical, and while doing that, the HP rectangle changed to be smaller than the Viewsonic, and the resolution changed to a lower resolution (Taskbar icons became bigger, took up more horizontally). I thought something had gone wrong, and tried to change the resolution back to QHD, but it only listed 1920 x 1080 as the max resolution. I tried some more things, then eventually Googled the model, and lo and behold it says it's FHD monitor.
But I could've sworn that initially, it was displaying the same QHD resolution that my Viewsonic is. And as I said, the rectangles representing the screens in Settings were the same size.
So was there a way that it was somehow showing a higher resolution briefly somehow? Or am I crazy? Por que no los dos?
Could be a Windows glitch. As exceedingly rare as they are………..