Frigging pissed off with Win 10, I love my new Pc but getting it to work with my still functional LCDTV (forgot to add, it's NOT a 1080 tv max res is 1360 or 1366 * 768) has been a fricken nightmare.
1st mistake was mine assuming my gfx card had 2 hdmi's and 2 Dps (nope only 1 HDMi port). So my purchase of a HDMI-VGA cable was no good as I was using HDMI to HDMI for my desktop monitor. So I bought a DP-HDMI cable for desktop monitor, plugged both display's and was greeted by black on both, no amount of internet searching came up with a solution, plenty of similar sounding stuff, but not my exact problem. Only thing that worked was one or the other NOT both.
So I left it for about 6 months and used a pad instead. Then I finally got the gumption to have another go, initially I physically lifted my desktop monitor up and over my pc and put in front of my driving rig. Obviously worked but a complete PITA.
So I thought of a HDMI hub and remembered I had one when the single HDMI output on TV worked (since failed hence using the VGA input) and had my PS3 and XBone attached. Unfortunately not bi directional so it was 2 inputs one output, but to test my theory (before buying a bi directional HDMI hub or at least 1 input 2 ouput) I bought another HDMI cable and attached the hub up and put it in a place for easy swapping of cables. Joy of joys it worked and I've spent the last week enjoying my wheel again.
This afernoon I plugged in my TV as I have been doing all week....but this time got the dreaded "No Signal". Plug desktop monitor back in and all fine. I've tried different resoultions, rebooted PC to no avail....the BIOS displays, but as soon as WIN 10 kicks in "No Signal"....the air around me is so blue it's arctic. How can something that worked for a week suddenly ferks up on me.
so 3 things...
1, why couldn't my card display with the HDMI and DP used, is that normal?
2, has my HDMI to VGA cable gone tits up?
3, Where has all my hair gone?
1st mistake was mine assuming my gfx card had 2 hdmi's and 2 Dps (nope only 1 HDMi port). So my purchase of a HDMI-VGA cable was no good as I was using HDMI to HDMI for my desktop monitor. So I bought a DP-HDMI cable for desktop monitor, plugged both display's and was greeted by black on both, no amount of internet searching came up with a solution, plenty of similar sounding stuff, but not my exact problem. Only thing that worked was one or the other NOT both.
So I left it for about 6 months and used a pad instead. Then I finally got the gumption to have another go, initially I physically lifted my desktop monitor up and over my pc and put in front of my driving rig. Obviously worked but a complete PITA.
So I thought of a HDMI hub and remembered I had one when the single HDMI output on TV worked (since failed hence using the VGA input) and had my PS3 and XBone attached. Unfortunately not bi directional so it was 2 inputs one output, but to test my theory (before buying a bi directional HDMI hub or at least 1 input 2 ouput) I bought another HDMI cable and attached the hub up and put it in a place for easy swapping of cables. Joy of joys it worked and I've spent the last week enjoying my wheel again.
This afernoon I plugged in my TV as I have been doing all week....but this time got the dreaded "No Signal". Plug desktop monitor back in and all fine. I've tried different resoultions, rebooted PC to no avail....the BIOS displays, but as soon as WIN 10 kicks in "No Signal"....the air around me is so blue it's arctic. How can something that worked for a week suddenly ferks up on me.
so 3 things...
1, why couldn't my card display with the HDMI and DP used, is that normal?
2, has my HDMI to VGA cable gone tits up?
3, Where has all my hair gone?