Help Help Help! HDMI ISSUES!

I now officially hate hdmi.

I am heavily vested in media center (4 tuners, pcie in htpc, 4 extenders, and I recently purchased a 6 tuner ethernet edition for a total of 10 tuners.)

I spent months trying to silve some hdmi problems. Using an ati card, and I tried 5 of them, I kept getting the same problem. Whenever I turn my tv off and then back on, there is no picture. The only way to get it back is to reboot the pc or blindly start live tv before I turn on the tv. I solved that problem by getting an nvidia card.

Worked like a top two years until recently all nvidia cards have gobe nuts. Every live tv show and recording has turned purple! I have tried 3 different nvidia cards, same junk.

Bought a new ati xard, hoping newer stuff would be fixed. Purple tv is gone but now I am back to signal loss ever time I turn off my tv.


Please help before I drive myself nuts!


Thanks

I can solve both of our problems now!


For mine, I found that it was me using overscan that screwed things up. The tv is all 1080p, but the pc 1080p signal did not fill my tv screen. I tried making it a higher resolution, still caused issues. Then it dawned on me to let ny TV do the over scanning, it works lime a charm!


As for your issue, my gaming machine has two 7970 cards in crossfire. I have 6 monitors hooked up to one 7970 card right now (3 in eyefinity, 1 projector and two side monitors for tv, security cams, and pc temp monitoring.)

Your problem is that your card only has 2 dvi controllers. Your hdmi port is dvi, it just has audio. If you use a displayport with an adapter it will want to use a dvi controller UNLESS you get an ACTIVE mini displayport to dvi adapter. Get a couple, and a few displayport splitters, and your card should support 6 monitors.

That would work. That would allow you to use your mini displayport as a mini displayport.

Non active ones use the mini displayport as dvi, and like I said, your card only has 2 if them.

My kightning 7970 has 4 mini display ports abd 2 dvi. I had to buy 4 active adapters to run 6 monitors.
Yours probably has 2 mini display ports, but youbcan buy an adapter to split ghem into two.


The other option is to buy a monitor with display port on it, but good luck with that, they are expensive!

Lol, good luck! I know it will work out for you!

A little advice though, unless you NEED audio, I would stick with displayport to DVI adapters. HDMI is actually DVI with the audio piggy backed onto it, but with hdmi you might run into EDID issues, which are a pain in the neck.

Oh, and you may want to start shoppibg at monoprice.com.