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STATUS_GRAPHICS_MONITOR_COULD_NOT_BE_ASSOCIATED_WITH_ADAPTER
Arrival was detected but no display-target association was built
STATUS_GRAPHICS_MONITOR_COULD_NOT_BE_ASSOCIATED_WITH_ADAPTER occurs after Windows observes a newly arrived monitor but cannot attach it to an adapter target in the display topology. The failure is not simply “no EDID”: an adapter can see a hot-plug event while target enumeration, connector routing, or driver state prevents a usable association.
The right evidence is the pairing between adapter, child output, target ID, connector path, and hot-plug notification. This distinguishes an association failure from a monitor that is physically absent, a descriptor that failed validation, or a GDI display device that has no mapped monitor.
What to check
- Record hot-plug sequence, adapter identity, child/output ID, target ID, and the connector or dock path.
- Compare direct and intermediary topology to identify whether routing or protocol conversion changes the result.
- Do not apply an EDID override until the target association is established and the source of descriptor data is known.
References
- Microsoft: VidPN objects and interfaces
- Microsoft: Video Present Network terminology
- VESA Enhanced EDID Standard, Release A2
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