PC will not detect HDMI connection

[StreekG]

Hey guys,

When i bought my new PC parts i decided to upgrade the monitor, from a 22" LCD wide to a Viewsonic 24" (23.6) LED Widescreen with HD.

For some reason though it will not display with the HDMI cable, has it got anything to do with the fact that my GFX card is mini HDMI, it came with a mini HDMI to HDMI cable and it all plugs in fine just i do not get any detection at all from the PC. So i have the monitor working with the VGA cable it came with, slapped on a DVI adapter and its great and straight away displayed in 1920x1080.

It seems fine this way but i just thought it was Odd that it wouldn't display in HDMI at all.

 

[dugdiamond]

are you using an HDMi cable that came with it (if any)?

if not, and you are using an old hdmi cable, it may be that that cable is not v1.3 (or greater)

also, if you have both VGA(DVI) and hdmi cables plugged into the monitor - the monitor will(may) default to VGA(DVI) signal on power-up !!!

this can be remedied via the monitor's OSD-menu (hopefully)

 

[S_I_N]

also check and see if you can toggle the port types like mine allows me to switch between hdmi dvi and vga the monitor should auto pick it up but sometime they dont. I think this is what Duggy is saying as well lol

 

[StreekG]

Im tried using the HDMI cable that came with my graphics cards as its mini HDMI-HDMI from that port, where as the HDMI cable that came with the monitor was HDMI-HDMI so it wouldn't fit into the gfx card. However i don't know how to check if the cable is 1.3 couldn't see any writing on it anywhere to indicate so.

I also tried going through the monitor menu, it would just switch back to dsub straight away.

 

[Ya93sin]

That's odd :/

I would be using HDMI now I guess, but its not supporting 120Hz, so I use DVI instead.

There's no difference tbh its all digital, but how come your GPU didn't come with a DVI cable?

 

[dugdiamond]

have you got a DVI-to-HDMI adapter? if so, try that !!!!!

 

[chris8224]

I use a DVI to HDMI adapter and it works fine for me.

 

[StreekG]

The card came with DVI cable also, it just makes no sense to me that the monitor only has HDMI and Dsub connection in the back.