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ShaunB-91

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Morning everyone,

Just a quick question to hopefully put my mind at ease. I've only plugged and unplugged the HDMI cable out the back of my graphics card a few times, it used to not give a signal until I sort of gave it a wiggle and then it would come to life on the display, same thing last night but a bit different, it came up with the Gigabyte BIOS screen, then through the Windows 8 loading screen and then it went all black, turned out it needed a wiggle so I thought okay, well it's obviously just not in the right place (although yeah it was plugged in!) since I unplugged it at the weekend to fit some gear, so went down and made a brew when that was sorted and when I came back the screen did a little flicker and it had little white pixels all over the place, they weren't solid though, they jittered a bit, restarted the rig and all was fine again.

I just need to know is there an issue with the GPU or do I just have a bit of a crappy connection or HDMI lead?
 
ShaunB-91 said:
Morning everyone,
I just need to know is there an issue with the GPU or do I just have a bit of a crappy connection or HDMI lead?
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Could be both mate, do you have any spare HDMI's lying around? Might be worth picking up one extra just to be sure. Since it was solved by restarting I think it might be your GPU D:
 
Go grab another cheap HDMI lead and replace the one you have, sounds faulty to me.

For the love of god don't spend more than £5 either, expensive HDMI leads are one of the biggest cons in the Audio/Visual industry
 
SuB said:
If i remember correctly, shaun uses a TV ?
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Yeah, thats correct, I could just put the rig below where the HDMI ports are but it'll be in the way, and this doesn't happen that often but it is starting to bug/worry me, I'll order another HDMI cable now. Thank God I didn't get one of those Monster cables a while ago, they are expensive!

You know what would of been good just for us OC3D'ers...The Ship.

Plus if anyone wants the free trial thing of it, Steam still gives me the code for that I think after all these years, sorry it's not the full-game. :(

Edit: The newest standard is still 1.4a right?
 
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ShaunB-91 said:
Yeah, thats correct, I could just put the rig below where the HDMI ports are but it'll be in the way, and this doesn't happen that often but it is starting to bug/worry me, I'll order another HDMI cable now. Thank God I didn't get one of those Monster cables a while ago, they are expensive!
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I undetstand it'll be in the way but it's good for testing :P
 
TheOuterOne said:
O/T: haha, love your new profile pic :lol:
OT: I don't know any HDMI brands, for me anything works.
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Lol you can thank Tripp for finding that. :) I ordered one of those I put in the link, we'll see how it goes, just there is no way of testing the cable to see if it's actually what HDMI 2.0 is rated at.
 
Any 2.0 cable will be fine, and in fact I believe most of the 1.4 versions still work with 2.0.

Honestly though don't spend more than a fiver, you'll be wasting money. It's digital, it either works, or it doesn't. It's not an analogue cable.
 
SuB said:
Any 2.0 cable will be fine, and in fact I believe most of the 1.4 versions still work with 2.0.

Honestly though don't spend more than a fiver, you'll be wasting money. It's digital, it either works, or it doesn't. It's not an analogue cable.
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I just ordered one of those 2.0 cables, £7. See how that goes. :)
 
Okay so I got jack shit from the new cable, wondering if you need to use it on HDMI equipment only?

Put the othe cable back in and so far its okay, but like I said it doesn't happen all the time.
 
ShaunB-91 said:
Okay so I got jack shit from the new cable, wondering if you need to use it on HDMI equipment only?

Put the othe cable back in and so far its okay, but like I said it doesn't happen all the time.
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How do you mean, HDMI equipment? I wouldn't put it in a DVI port if that's what you mean..

Keep us updated! I hope it works :)
 
I got a similar issue once with little "red pixels" while using a DVI cable. Turned out to be a faulty DVI input on the monitor.

So check your cable first, if another HDMI cable doesn't work, might be an issue with the monitor's inputs.
 
Edge said:
I got a similar issue once with little "red pixels" while using a DVI cable. Turned out to be a faulty DVI input on the monitor.

So check your cable first, if another HDMI cable doesn't work, might be an issue with the monitor's inputs.
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PLEASE don't say that, it's a one thousand pound TV!

The whole f'in rig is down now, I keep getting "Oops something went wrong :(" messages, one is something to do with kernel, another is something like driver_is_not..." and it restarts the rig, but it happens more frequently, last time between installing Windows updates, and now my mouse doesn't work either. I feel like crying, I don't even know were to start.

Edit: I' am thinking of getting a PC monitor, 2560x1440 hopefully but right now the rig needs fixing for starters, but I just don't know what to do, will these errors just be software related, because I also want a bigger single SSD so it might be worth me buying that and re-installing Windows?
 
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