- Sep 23, 2013
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I posted this over in Home Theater too, figuring some of the guys with a solid knowledge on home theater/receivers might be able to help. But I figured you guys on the computer end might have some insight on it from the graphics card/display end of things. This is a little long winded, so bear with me.
I've got an extra surround sound setup that I decided to make use of tonight. I wanted to make a secondary setup for using one of my PC's, a gaming console and my receiver/surround sound setup.
My main goal was to set this up so I could have a smaller simpler setup for playing games and utilizing my pc while maintaining good audio feedback.
I got the PS3 hooked up to the receiver with video playback working just fine on the PC monitor. Then from there I ran the PC into another of the inputs on the receiver and that was where I ran into trouble.
Everything starts up just fine. PS3 runs just fine, sounds good/looks good. But when I switch inputs over to the PC to use that, I get a white static visual on the monitor that cuts to black then I see my desktop for a second or two, then it repeats the process. Audio works just fine, I can hear sounds in Windows. But I can't for the life of me get the video issue figured out.
Running a Pioneer Elite VSX-21TXH receiver, the PS3, home built PC with an nvidia 550 ti w/ Mini-HDMI output, and a cheapo little 23 inch Acer monitor.
I forget the exact model on the monitor now, but it's 1080p LCD.
In short, I've run HDMI from receiver to monitor. One HDMI from PS3 to receiver input and another from video card to the second receiver input. Kinda of stumped on why this would do this. I'm assuming its something to do with a lack of compliance between the cheap monitor and signal coming from the receiver. I've run the PC with this receiver in the past to my normal tv with no problems.
I've got an extra surround sound setup that I decided to make use of tonight. I wanted to make a secondary setup for using one of my PC's, a gaming console and my receiver/surround sound setup.
My main goal was to set this up so I could have a smaller simpler setup for playing games and utilizing my pc while maintaining good audio feedback.
I got the PS3 hooked up to the receiver with video playback working just fine on the PC monitor. Then from there I ran the PC into another of the inputs on the receiver and that was where I ran into trouble.
Everything starts up just fine. PS3 runs just fine, sounds good/looks good. But when I switch inputs over to the PC to use that, I get a white static visual on the monitor that cuts to black then I see my desktop for a second or two, then it repeats the process. Audio works just fine, I can hear sounds in Windows. But I can't for the life of me get the video issue figured out.
Running a Pioneer Elite VSX-21TXH receiver, the PS3, home built PC with an nvidia 550 ti w/ Mini-HDMI output, and a cheapo little 23 inch Acer monitor.
I forget the exact model on the monitor now, but it's 1080p LCD.
In short, I've run HDMI from receiver to monitor. One HDMI from PS3 to receiver input and another from video card to the second receiver input. Kinda of stumped on why this would do this. I'm assuming its something to do with a lack of compliance between the cheap monitor and signal coming from the receiver. I've run the PC with this receiver in the past to my normal tv with no problems.
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