Cannot get PC to display on HDTV

hobozombie

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Hello all, I'm having trouble getting my PC to display on my HDTV. I had previously had no problem with this, same PC, same TV, until one reboot, when it no longer would display on my HDTV. My setup was multiple displays on an Nvidia 520 with an lcd monitor connected to my PC via a VGA cable, and a Samsung 720p HDTV connected via HDMI cable. The TV no just displays "No Signal." I am running Windows Vista Ultimate.

I have tried having the PC turned off, and restarting without the HDTV connected, restarting with the HDTV turned off, having only the HDTV connected during a restart, updating my drivers, fiddling around with all sorts of resolutions in the Windows display menu, as well as through the Nvidia control panel. Both the display menu and Nvidia control panel recognize that I have a Samsung brand HDTV connected and recognizes it's native resolution. I have tested other devices on the HDMI port on the TV, and they worked fine, but I have tried connecting my computer to another HDTV, with no success. However, the other TV displayed extremely garbled, multicolored patterns during POST (features of the POST screen were barely recognizable), but then displayed "No Signal" after POST.

Any help would be most appreciated.
 

hobozombie

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Sorry, forgot to mention, I used the two different HDMI cables with the same result. Both of them work with an Xbox 360 connecting to the HDTV.
 

hobozombie

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I didn't find any options like that in my BIOS settings. The closest I found was an option about PCI vs PCI-Express, I switched from one to the other with no effect.
 

hobozombie

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A little update. I just successfully got video output to a different HDTV (the one I mentioned also testing, but failing to get to work) by using a DVI to HDMI cable. I'll try to connect my PC to my Samsung using the DVI to HDMI cable tomorrow when I can rearrange things (cable is only 1m long).