DisplayLink Forum - View Single Post - Windows 8 (64 bit RTM version) works well with V7.0 B1 DisplayLink beta

tinkererguy · 09-08-2012, 05:44 AM

I've installed newer NVIDIA drivers, but then am having trouble getting DisplayLink tray icon to show, so I've lost my 3rd monitor display. So in hindsight, perhaps the only way I had DisplayLink working was because it was working on Windows 7 x64 before the upgrade to Windows 8.

Anybody come up with a reliable way to run Windows 8 RTM and DisplayLink drivers yet?

Even the new driver for Windows 8 (out of beta), now version 7.0 Sep 7 2012:
http://displaylink.com/support/downloads.php
failed for me with the same behavior: installs fast, screen never blanks, no tray icon (and no prompt to reboot).

While I did notice that the DisplayLinkManager is running, the Device manager has yellow exclamations on all ThinkPad USB 3.0 Dock entries under "Other Devices"

Nothing in this debugging guide helped:
http://www.displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=896

Feels like I need to do some sort of manual cleanup (registry/files/etc) then a reboot perhaps?

FYI, Lenovo's new August 2012 driver for my Lenovo USB 3.0 dock won't even install on Windows 8 fyi:
http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guid...DocID=UM014961

09-08-2012, 05:44 AM	#5
tinkererguy Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Posts: 33	I've installed newer NVIDIA drivers, but then am having trouble getting DisplayLink tray icon to show, so I've lost my 3rd monitor display. So in hindsight, perhaps the only way I had DisplayLink working was because it was working on Windows 7 x64 before the upgrade to Windows 8. Anybody come up with a reliable way to run Windows 8 RTM and DisplayLink drivers yet? Even the new driver for Windows 8 (out of beta), now version 7.0 Sep 7 2012: http://displaylink.com/support/downloads.php failed for me with the same behavior: installs fast, screen never blanks, no tray icon (and no prompt to reboot). While I did notice that the DisplayLinkManager is running, the Device manager has yellow exclamations on all ThinkPad USB 3.0 Dock entries under "Other Devices" Nothing in this debugging guide helped: http://www.displaylink.org/forum/showthread.php?t=896 Feels like I need to do some sort of manual cleanup (registry/files/etc) then a reboot perhaps? FYI, Lenovo's new August 2012 driver for my Lenovo USB 3.0 dock won't even install on Windows 8 fyi: http://support.lenovo.com/en_US/guid...DocID=UM014961 Last edited by tinkererguy; 09-08-2012 at 05:50 AM.