I would actually suggest trying two different types of reboots.įirst, reboot your Mac and then plug in your external display once your Mac is powered on and you're logged in. Rebooting your Mac is a great way to shock the system and fix any niggling problems you might be experiencing. Plus, if you're connecting your monitor via a USB-C hub, you'll want to try hooking that USB-C hub to a different port as well. Specifically, on the M1 iMac and the M1 Mac mini, you should be using a Thunderbolt port to connect to any monitor. So I guess my question is: will such a cable work from Thunderbolt-2 at the MAC to Thunderbolt/USB-C at the other end? I assume I will also need to purchase a female-female gender-bender to connect at the dock end as it's the wrong gender.Ī secondary question is: what are my other options, if any, for external displays on this Mac? There appears to be no other output ports and I'd rather not have to buy another monitor since we have no place to put it.If you're using a USB-C connection for your monitor, try a different port to see if that resolves the issue.

In any case, the Thunderbolt/USB-C end for these cables is male and I need female. My concern is that all the cables I look at seem to assume the Thunderbolt/USB-C is at the Mac end (which is true for more recent models) and I don't want to blow more money on the wrong cable. So I think what I need is a cable with male Thunderbolt 2 at the Mac end and female Thunderbolt/USB-C at the dock end (the dock has a hard-wired input cable with male Thunderbolt/USB-C). the Mac output wasn't even a mini-DP :-).the latter was an output rather than an input and.I very foolishly bought a mini-DP-to-DP cable, thinking that would work just be plugging the Mac mini-DP output into the dock DP output, not realising at the time that: The monitor has HDMI, DVI and DSUB inputs of which the first two are in use.

This monitor is fed via HDMI from a HP Thunderbolt dock (HSN-IX02) which only has a Thunderbolt/USB-C input, but many other outputs (HDMI, DP, etc). We want to use one of our existing monitors hooked up to another of our systems, without having to remove and re-insert cables all the time. This particular model seems to have on the right (both listed front to back). My daughter has a non-most-recent Macbook Air with what I thought was originally a mini-DP output but it turns out to be a Thunderbolt (probably v2 since the Mac is only a couple of years old).

Macbook air to monitor connector