I bought this cheap hp laptop “HP Laptop 14-ep0063cl (8M5Q2UA)”
it has a HDMI port and I have an extra monitor attached to it. I wanted to add one more monitor and the USB-C is not supporting that. An help with this appriciated. The two different one I bought and neither was able to do it. one was a splitter and showing the same desktop on both. I am not sure what its called but I want the monitors to work independantly. Like I have a mail on one and browser on he 2nd one.
Thankk you for any advise.
Hi @thamidi, thanks for contacting StarTech.com and welcome to our community!
The USB-C port on that laptop is data only, so, it won’t work with any USB-C video adapter that requires USB-C DisplayPort alternative mode (DP-Alt mode) as that port doesn’t have it. It’s very normal for low cost, or as you put it, cheap, laptops to have USB-C ports that are USB data only. HDMI doesn’t have a way to split it’s signal into two distinct ones which means you can’t use 1 HDMI port to power multiple distinct displays. What you want is extended displays, aka, multiple monitors that each can show their own thing, different and independent from the others. Mirrored displays are what you got, where multiple displays show the same thing, and that’s just because HDMI can’t output multiple signals and so anything HDMI to multiple HDMI like you purchased is called a splitter, which can ONLY mirror.
So: Multiple displays showing their own thing = extended. Multiple displays showing the same thing = mirror.
Based on your wording, it sounds like you’re trying to add a 2nd additional monitor, being that you probably have one already connected. The only way to do this for your matching would be via a USB video adapter. We have tons of options for this at various price points, depending on the type of monitor you want to power.
A very common, and popular option is our: USB32HD4K. We have 3 options, at 3 price points, you can see them here: USB-A Display Adapters | Display & Video Adapters | StarTech.com
Feel free to take a look at the options and ask any questions you may have about them. As a note, these will only work for basic web browsing and light tasks. They won’t work with games, or anything intensive like photo editing or CAD. I don’t imagine this is a concern given the laptop you have. As you said, it’s a “cheap” laptop, so not something you’d use for those tasks.
Hi Justin,
That was a very quick reply and to the point. Thank you for that sir,
I am ordeing one right now. Have a great weekend.
Terry,