Connecting dual 27″ Apple thunderbolt displays to PC

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I have two of the Apple 27" thunderbolt displays, and a Dell M3800 laptop running Windows 7. The laptop has a thunderbolt port, and can run one of the Apple displays just fine. When I daisy chain another Apple display, the display on the far end of the chain works, but the one on the near end of the chain goes dark.

Is there any way to connect two of these displays to this computer?

Note: The ports on both displays, and the PC are thunderbolt, not displayport.

Best Answer

The Thunderbolt Display does not support daisy-chaining Mini-DisplayPort.

https://support.apple.com/en-us/HT204154

I did see a report somewhere that computers that can drive two monitors over were able to get around this be inserting another Thunderbolt peripheral in the middle. I.e., Mac > Thunderbolt Display > Thunderbolt RAID > Mini DisplayPort monitor.