u/felipevallejom

Looking for a Metallica Friday ticket next week in London. Thanks

Hey everyone, looking for some advice on setting up my road bike for an upcoming gravel ride.

I have a 2021 Giant TCR Advanced Disc with hookless rims. The frame clears 32mm max which rules out going wider on the stock wheels. I'd rather run inner tubes for reliability on a longer ride, so I've decided to get a dedicated gravel wheelset rather than deal with the hookless tubeless-only limitation.

Looking for a mid-range wheelset + tyre combo in the 700c format. The gravel riding will be mixed — some hardpack fire roads, some looser rougher stuff.

A few specific questions:

1. What mid-range gravel wheelsets are you running and would recommend? (thinking DT Swiss G 1800, Shimano GRX WH-RX570, Hunt 4 Season Gravel as starting points)

2. What tyre width makes most sense for mixed hardpack/loose gravel — 35mm or 38mm?

3. Any tyre recommendations in the mid-range price bracket that work well with tubes?

Total budget for wheels + tyres is flexible but looking to be sensible about it. Appreciate any real world experience over spec sheet comparisons. Cheers!

Hoping someone here has dealt with this because Samsung support has nothing on it.

**Setup:**

- GPU: Nvidia RTX 4090

- Monitors: x2 Samsung ViewFinity S9 27" 5K (model S27C902 / LS27C900P)

- Connection: DisplayPort on both monitors

- OS: Windows 11

- GPU ports used: DP port 2 and DP port 4 (leaving port 3 empty — this was necessary, adjacent ports didn't work at all)

**Background:**

One monitor was sent for repair. When it came back I reconnected both and couldn't get both working simultaneously. Each monitor works perfectly on its own.

**What I've already tried:**

- Swapped cables between monitors — ruled out faulty cable

- Tried every combination of DP ports on the GPU (1+2, 1+3, 2+3, 2+4 etc) — only 2+4 with a gap gets both detected

- Cold boots with both connected from powered-off state

- Factory reset on both monitors via OSD

- Updated firmware on both monitors — they were on different firmware versions after the repair, now both match

- Checked DisplayPort version settings in OSD — couldn't find this setting on the S9

- Windows Display Settings shows both monitors labelled correctly as display 1 and 2

- Device Manager shows both monitors with up to date drivers

- Tried Detect display in Display Settings — says "we didn't find another display" despite it being listed

- Tried Duplicate and Extend modes — no change

- Tried lowering resolution on the dark monitor

**Current state:**

With cables in ports 2 and 4 on the GPU, Windows detects both monitors and lists them correctly in Display Settings with Extend selected. But only one shows an image. The other is dark. Whichever monitor is in port 4 seems to be the one that goes dark — it's not specific to one monitor.

**Suspicion:**

I updated the Nvidia GPU drivers while the monitor was away for repair. I suspect there may be a driver conflict from updating over old drivers rather than doing a clean install. I was going to try DDU in Safe Mode but my drive is BitLocker encrypted and I don't have easy access to the recovery key right now.

**Questions:**

1. Has anyone run two 5K monitors on a 4090 via DisplayPort successfully? Any specific port combination that works?

2. Could a driver conflict from a non-clean update cause exactly this symptom?

3. Is there a DisplayPort version or DSC setting on the ViewFinity S9 that I'm missing in the OSD?

4. Any other ideas before I go back to Samsung and tell them the repaired unit is faulty?

Thanks in advance.