Catalyst Control Center help
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29 Dec 2009, 13:42
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I need some help setting up my TV-Out. It should be a pretty basic procedure, and I've done it a whole bunch of times before, but for some reason it just won't work today... So, this is the situation;
I run a DVI to HDMI-adapter into the TV (so it's plugged into my HDMI-channels) and then a DVI-cable from my TV to my computer. Usually what I do when I want the TV-Out to work is I go into my CCC, go to Display Manager, right-click the TV in "Attached displays currently disabled" and press "Extend main onto digital panel" and it's all set! But today, that didn't work.
First off I don't get a picture. The picture on my TV stays blue. It obviously recognizes there's a connection since it can detect the display in Display Manager.
I fiddle around some with settings, I try to clone it instead of extend it, I try to first boot without the TV plugged into my computer and then plug it in while it's running, I try to boot with it plugged in, I try to switch ports on my gfx-cards, I try to boot without my monitor plugged in and only the TV. Nothing works, no picture. So, now I try to switch input channel on the TV and I go for the HDMI 2-output instead. Now my picture is red. Seriously red.
I can see my background, but it's all reddish. I try to edit the colors in CCC (under Color). If I change any values for Gamma, Brightness or Contrast on "All Channels", "Blue" or "Green" I get a visible difference (as I should), but if I change any values at all on "Red", there's no difference in the picture at all. If I unplug the cable or disable the monitor in the Display Manager, the picture on my HDMI 2-output is the regular blue.
So, anyone got any idea what I can do? I'd suspect my hardware (cable, adapter, card, outputs on my TV) is broken, but it just seems weird that I have two different problems on two different outputs on my TV. Did both my outputs break, in completely different ways over christmas? Doesn't seem likely.
TL;DR: My HDMI 1-channel doesn't give me any picture at all, my HDMI 2-channel is red. I try changing color settings but it doesn't do anything. Halp required.
I run a DVI to HDMI-adapter into the TV (so it's plugged into my HDMI-channels) and then a DVI-cable from my TV to my computer. Usually what I do when I want the TV-Out to work is I go into my CCC, go to Display Manager, right-click the TV in "Attached displays currently disabled" and press "Extend main onto digital panel" and it's all set! But today, that didn't work.
First off I don't get a picture. The picture on my TV stays blue. It obviously recognizes there's a connection since it can detect the display in Display Manager.
I fiddle around some with settings, I try to clone it instead of extend it, I try to first boot without the TV plugged into my computer and then plug it in while it's running, I try to boot with it plugged in, I try to switch ports on my gfx-cards, I try to boot without my monitor plugged in and only the TV. Nothing works, no picture. So, now I try to switch input channel on the TV and I go for the HDMI 2-output instead. Now my picture is red. Seriously red.
I can see my background, but it's all reddish. I try to edit the colors in CCC (under Color). If I change any values for Gamma, Brightness or Contrast on "All Channels", "Blue" or "Green" I get a visible difference (as I should), but if I change any values at all on "Red", there's no difference in the picture at all. If I unplug the cable or disable the monitor in the Display Manager, the picture on my HDMI 2-output is the regular blue.
So, anyone got any idea what I can do? I'd suspect my hardware (cable, adapter, card, outputs on my TV) is broken, but it just seems weird that I have two different problems on two different outputs on my TV. Did both my outputs break, in completely different ways over christmas? Doesn't seem likely.
TL;DR: My HDMI 1-channel doesn't give me any picture at all, my HDMI 2-channel is red. I try changing color settings but it doesn't do anything. Halp required.
E: Though this looks like more like a cable-issue. Try another cable/adapter.
Well, it changes the primary display, so when I boot my login screen appears on my TV instead. But other than that there's no difference.
No other kind of testing available I'm afraid.
If i got it right it sounds like;
1) ur graphic card is DVI
2) ur TV is HDMI
3) u used adapter to make TV's HDMI -> DVI
4) u connected ur DVI from graphic to ur DVI adapter in the tv, that's connected to the HDMI port.
I'd say then that the adapter is somehow fucked up, + the standard thing to do is that the adapter is used on the sending signal (adapter on the graphical card)
I also got a DVI exit @ graphic card, but used an HDMI adapter on it, and then just used HDMI cable to connect it to my HDMI port @ TV, worked without probs.
And like thomm stated above i'd also call it a hardware prob with either ur adapter or cable.
I'd suggest you either to get DVI -> HDMI cable (least chance of failure)
or just get an adapter that works well with ur graphic card and use it on the card (mine came supplied with the ATI 4870)
Is it somehow better to use the adapter on my gfx-card than on the TV? I don't see how that would make a difference. Plus, a HDMI-cable is like three times the cost of a DVI-cable.
My 4870 only supplied me with a DVI to VGA-adapter, which is about as useless as it comes. I guess it's off to the hardware store for me then.