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Posted December 06, 2011
So back to my parents pc. Would I be correct is thinking the HDMI cable is broken because at startup the monitor has a tendency to not come on unless I start moving the monitor and fiddling with the cord at the monitor end. Once the image is on, it's fine and NVIDIA control panel says both monitor and video card are HDCP compliant. This happened a few months back with the old video card and same hdmi cable. VGA to VGA works perfectly. I'm also running it at native screen resolution.
Post edited December 06, 2011 by Kabuto
Posted December 06, 2011
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Kabuto: So back to my parents pc. Would I be correct is thinking the HDMI cable is broken because at startup the monitor has a tendency to not come on unless I start moving the monitor and fiddling with the cord at the monitor end. Once the image is on, it's fine and NVIDIA control panel says both monitor and video card are HDCP compliant. This happened a few months back with the old video card and same hdmi cable. VGA to VGA works perfectly. I'm also running it at native screen resolution.
Could be the cable, or could even be the HDMI outlet of the monitor. Did you test that HDMI cable on another TV or monitor?

If it is the HDMI cable buy a new one at Newegg for like 5 bucks.
Posted December 06, 2011
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Kabuto: So back to my parents pc. Would I be correct is thinking the HDMI cable is broken because at startup the monitor has a tendency to not come on unless I start moving the monitor and fiddling with the cord at the monitor end. Once the image is on, it's fine and NVIDIA control panel says both monitor and video card are HDCP compliant. This happened a few months back with the old video card and same hdmi cable. VGA to VGA works perfectly. I'm also running it at native screen resolution.
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GameRager: Could be the cable, or could even be the HDMI outlet of the monitor. Did you test that HDMI cable on another TV or monitor?

If it is the HDMI cable buy a new one at Newegg for like 5 bucks.
It's the only HDMI monitor or tv around. I don't even have one. My monitor only uses DVI or VGA. It worked fine for over two years.
Post edited December 06, 2011 by Kabuto
Posted December 06, 2011
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GameRager: Could be the cable, or could even be the HDMI outlet of the monitor. Did you test that HDMI cable on another TV or monitor?

If it is the HDMI cable buy a new one at Newegg for like 5 bucks.
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Kabuto: It's the only HDMI monitor or tv around. I don't even have one. My monitor only uses DVI or VGA. It worked fine for over two years.
Go to a friend and test it out there. Gotta rule out the cable first, as it could be the monitor outlets giving a fuss as well.
Posted December 06, 2011
Or, if you have no other monitor to try the cable with, just get another HDMI cable and try it. As GameRager says, they're cheap. (Or they would be, if greedy bastards like Monster didn't spend big bucks trying to make you think you need overpriced cables.)

HDMI hardware design would be a bad joke, if it were funny, which it isn't. It is as if the manufacturers designed it to fail to make solid connections, work loose, wear down, bend pins, and so forth.
Post edited December 06, 2011 by cjrgreen
Posted December 06, 2011
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cjrgreen: Or, if you have no other monitor to try the cable with, just get another HDMI cable and try it. As GameRager says, they're cheap. (Or they would be, if greedy bastards like Monster didn't spend big bucks trying to make you think you need overpriced cables.)

HDMI hardware design would be a bad joke, if it were funny, which it isn't. It is as if the manufacturers designed it to fail to make solid connections, work loose, wear down, bend pins, and so forth.
It's worse than that, by stealing from the DVI spec they made long runs practically impossible (DVI was designed with a 6 foot or less run in mind, since it was meant to connect monitors to computers), which is good for the content producers and super shitty for consumers. HDMI (and the HDCP encryption that comes with it) is actually one of the worst specs ever to come out. And 98% of the time those 3-5 dollar discount cables will work just fine, don't pay more than that.
Post edited December 06, 2011 by orcishgamer
Posted December 06, 2011
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cjrgreen: Or, if you have no other monitor to try the cable with, just get another HDMI cable and try it. As GameRager says, they're cheap. (Or they would be, if greedy bastards like Monster didn't spend big bucks trying to make you think you need overpriced cables.)

HDMI hardware design would be a bad joke, if it were funny, which it isn't. It is as if the manufacturers designed it to fail to make solid connections, work loose, wear down, bend pins, and so forth.
Heyyyyyy, this is myyyy quesshun! :P

But yeah monster cables are a friggin' ripoff. :)
Post edited December 06, 2011 by GameRager
Posted December 06, 2011
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GameRager: If it is the HDMI cable buy a new one at Newegg for like 5 bucks.
Also www.partsexpress.com, www.monoprice.com, www.tigerdirect.com.

Just tossing out a few other cheap options in case someone's not a fan of newegg for whatever reason. $3-5 seems to be a common price for a short HDMI cable. Of course, you could always beg a friend to let you try one of his or her cables for a few minutes.
Posted December 06, 2011
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One good thing about Monster cables is their instrument cables. It's almost impossible to beat the quality you get there! :)

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Posted December 07, 2011
Was able to try the HDMI cable on another device and it works fine. I think the HDMI monitor port is messed up. So screw it, VGA + RCA cable for sound (speakers are built into the monitor). I had two VGA cables lying around and an RCA stereo cable was a just few bucks.
Posted December 07, 2011
Just curious: did you notice any difference in picture quality between the HDMI (when the port was cooperating) and VGA cables? I recently tried it out on a new 1920x1080 monitor we picked up last month and I really can't see any difference at all - it looks great either way.
Posted December 07, 2011
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HereForTheBeer: Just curious: did you notice any difference in picture quality between the HDMI (when the port was cooperating) and VGA cables? I recently tried it out on a new 1920x1080 monitor we picked up last month and I really can't see any difference at all - it looks great either way.
I didn't see a difference either. It was nice having the convenience of sound and video in one cable but otherwise I saw no benefit.
Posted December 07, 2011
What you will lose though is the ability to play protected content. Want to play blu-rays? Not with vga.
Posted December 07, 2011
No biggie. The screen is on the kitchen PC, doing double duty with DirecTV over HDMI. Ended up using VGA for the PC so we could use the picture-in-picture feature on the monitor.
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