Thunderbolt Display with 2011 Macbook Pro 17" issues

When I first purchased the display, it would not work then randomly detected and was fine for sometime. I used it within both osx and windows 7 via bootcamp without issue. I went away for a few weeks and when i returned it would randomly detect within mac then shutoff after a minute or so, rinse and repeat. When i tired in bootcamp it would sometimes detect at boot then shutoff after a minute or so. I gave up after a nights trouble shooting and when i tried again in the morning the display would not detect at all.
I've tried disabling auto adjust brightness, altered the power settings to disable the shutdown of hdd and displays, reseting the pram and vram numerous times, resetting the smc, installing and trying the different modes using gfx card status, updating firmware and all software, reinstalling osx.
I am very frustated at this point and any assistance would be appreciated.

When you detect the displays, does it show that the HP is number 1 and Samsung is number 2?
You can detect displays by pushing Command(⌘)+F2 or by clicking Option when in the Displays Settings.

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