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diggio
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4 years ago

Black screen when using remote control on RDP connection to Windows Server 2016

Our end users log into terminal servers via RDP. When we use LogMeIn Rescue, the remote control will typically start with a black screen (not always but it happens almost every time). I can see their...
  • MrHappy4's avatar
    3 years ago
    Come to find out, it seems to be a problem with the computer itself, somehow. The problem fixes itself when we open the lid of the laptop.

    When the lid is closed and we use LMI and RDP, the screen is blank for anything, no Run command or Control Panel, or anything. When we open the laptop, everything works just fine and the screen shows up just fine, even if the RDP was blank a second ago. As soon as we close the lid again, everything in the RDP stops again and I can’t click any icons or do any commands.

    Never had the problem on any other computers. We leave the computers in the office and the users LMI into them to run the programs, so we never needed to have the lids open. This one will have to be though.