


Similarly, when checking out the Intel HD graphics 630 Adapter, it does look like it was updated in May, around when my problem started. It searches and says it can’t find a newer one. My monitor is a Dell ST242oL from 2011 and when I check properties you can hit the Update Driver box. Right clicking on the desktop let’s me see the display settings and intel graphics settings. As in, even if some check says they are up to date, manually install (reinstall?) the latest applicable version anyway. This might or might not get fixed if you force-update your graphics drivers. So, change to minimum safe default resolution, windows are rearranged to at least partially fit in that and then a second later the monitor wakes up, autodetect gets a larger resolution, windows still fit on the new screen now so are not autoresized.

My guess is, what changed is that *now*, graphics autodetect triggers at a time when the monitor doesn’t respond to it… or the response takes too long… possibly because the monitor is (still?) at a sleep state. Given that this sounds similat to what typically happens on servers that don’t have a physical display plugged in, and a remote admin tool may use a different resolution, as in while connected behave as a software-only display device that has a higher resolution than the driver default…ĭriver default usually being about the “smallest common” safe choice that at least should get you *something* on screen if the autodetect fails.
