External Display not working after 10.13.6 update

My external display (Dell P2214Hb) stopped working after the macOs update to 10.13.6. It is connected to the Thunderbolt port on my MacBook Pro mid-2012 via a DisplayPort cable.

I tried another monitor and still had the same issue.

Has anyone experienced anything similar? Any tips to fix this issue?:

to get a Mac display to become active, you need the Mac to query the display, and the display to answer with its name and capabilities. Otherwise, no data will be sent to the display.

This query is only sent at certain times:
• at startup
• at wake from sleep
• at insertion of the Mac-end of the display-cable, provided everything on that cable is ready-to-go
• on invoking Option-(Detect Display) button in Displays preferences

so try doing some of those things and see if the display comes alive.

Modern Displays with multiple ports are sometimes busy scanning the other ports, looking for an input, and miss the query from the Mac. They need to pay attention to the port you are actually using, or they will miss the query.

Some displays have On-Screen Display settings that can be used to tell the display a computer is attached on a certain port, or a certain port should be highest priority. Changing those may make your display more responsive.

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