HDMI

[Monoriu]

I just bought an HDMI cable that connects the monitor with the computer video card.  The cable connects to both devices fine.  But when I switch the monitor's input to HDMI, it says "connecting" then "no signal".  I've tried rebooting, disconnecting then reconnecting the cable.  So far nothing works.

Any suggestions?  Do I need to change the settings, or reinstall the drivers?

[Grey Fox]

Have you also unplug the previous cable?

[Monoriu]

Have you also unplug the previous cable?

yes

[Tonitrus]

Beyond the usual spiel of making sure the graphics card drivers are up to date...is there an input setting on the graphics card software that might need changing?

[katmai]

Mono what cable connection were you using prior?

[DontSayBanana]

If you switched to an external video card, also make sure you've *disabled* the onboard video via BIOS.  Windows computers should auto-detect, but I've repaired a bunch of computers that had trouble caused by an IGP interfering with RAM or the external GPU itself (usually, the culprit is the IGP not releasing the allocated RAM).

[Monoriu]

Mono what cable connection were you using prior?

VGA

[Monoriu]

If you switched to an external video card, also make sure you've *disabled* the onboard video via BIOS.  Windows computers should auto-detect, but I've repaired a bunch of computers that had trouble caused by an IGP interfering with RAM or the external GPU itself (usually, the culprit is the IGP not releasing the allocated RAM).

Thanks for this.  Will try.

[Monoriu]

Talked to the guy who sold me the cable.  He said that that particular cable brand doesn't really work with my kind of monitors.  He would give me another cable 

[Liep]

? I thought all HDMI cables were suppose to be the same... digital and all that.

[Monoriu]

? I thought all HDMI cables were suppose to be the same... digital and all that.

Who knows.  The shop said they tested an identical cable with a monitor that shared the same brand as mine.  Didn't work for them either. 

[Grey Fox]

? I thought all HDMI cables were suppose to be the same... digital and all that.

Yes, but sometimes you get handshaking issues.

[Berkut]

China.

[Monoriu]

Changed to another HDMI cable.  Doesn't work.  Played around with BIOs settings.  Doesn't work.  I'm going to have to what I really don't want to do, namely, take both the monitor and computer to the shop for testing. 

[Josquius]

Don't you have a dvd player or somesuch about to test the monitor with?