Well, after my dual 5 displays arrived this morning I set them up with my 15" 2016 mbp with 2.9ghz CPU and Radeon 460.
After plugging in the first display things were looking great. The picture was amazing, playing a couple of quick 4k and 5k videos really showed this display was a fantastic upgrade fro my dual 30" Cinema Display setup.
The second monitor didn't go so well. It flickered once when plugged in but after that, no amount of cable fiddling, re-plugging, could get anything out of it. It simply stayed blank. Power was being delivered to the laptop when I tried it by itself, but nothing else. It wasn't detected as a thunderbolt 3 device at all.
I tried with my 13" nTB mbp, but no luck there either. I tried with the first 5k's TB3 cable, no dice there either. I called AppleCare and arranged for a replacement. Then I went to lunch.
Upon getting back from lunch, I could not wake my first 5k display. This had been performing great and didn't even flicker or have issues when I had previously wiggled the tb3 cable. I tried the same cable acrobatics as with the 2nd display but no dice.
On a hunch that this was a cable issue, I drove 45mins each way to the local Apple Store and purchased a .5m and a 2m Belkin TB3 cable (I know its only 60W) to see if that would help. Tried both, no dice.
So I'm now on hold trying to reach AppleCare 'again' to get a replacement on the first one.. sigh...
After plugging in the first display things were looking great. The picture was amazing, playing a couple of quick 4k and 5k videos really showed this display was a fantastic upgrade fro my dual 30" Cinema Display setup.
The second monitor didn't go so well. It flickered once when plugged in but after that, no amount of cable fiddling, re-plugging, could get anything out of it. It simply stayed blank. Power was being delivered to the laptop when I tried it by itself, but nothing else. It wasn't detected as a thunderbolt 3 device at all.
I tried with my 13" nTB mbp, but no luck there either. I tried with the first 5k's TB3 cable, no dice there either. I called AppleCare and arranged for a replacement. Then I went to lunch.
Upon getting back from lunch, I could not wake my first 5k display. This had been performing great and didn't even flicker or have issues when I had previously wiggled the tb3 cable. I tried the same cable acrobatics as with the 2nd display but no dice.
On a hunch that this was a cable issue, I drove 45mins each way to the local Apple Store and purchased a .5m and a 2m Belkin TB3 cable (I know its only 60W) to see if that would help. Tried both, no dice.
So I'm now on hold trying to reach AppleCare 'again' to get a replacement on the first one.. sigh...