HDMI handshake issues Nvidia GTX 770 4 GB

philtrid

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Hi all, I am having a weird problem. My setup is a gaming PC on my Panasonic plasma TV with gamepad in the loungeroom at 1080p. The card is an Nvidia GTX 770 4 GB. Has been working great for the past 18 months. Anyway recently I reinstalled Windows 7 Ultra 64 bit, did all the updates, grabbed the latest GeForce drivers, and now I have this weird handshake problem. For the past 18 months I had been using a DVI to HDMI cable (obviously plugged into the graphics card output not the motherboard output) with no problems. Now, when I connect the PC and TV with the cable for the first time, the handshake is fine and everything is as it always used to behave. But then after I've finished I will turn the PC and TV off as I always did, and later on when I go to power on and use again, I just get a blank screen... so I assume this is some kind of HDMI handshake issue. I have tried power cycling things in different orders to get the handshake to work and I've used HDMIon and *.bat files to restart the handshake but nothing works. The only way I can get it back is to turn everything off, unplug the cable at both DVI and HDMI end for a few seconds, plug everything back in, turn it on and then it handshakes successfully. Then I think oh cool it's working again, use it for a bit, turn it off, come back the next day and nothing displaying on the screen again. This behaviour is repeatable with a HDMI to HDMI cable, and also when plugging into different HDMI input ports on the TV. Does anyone have any ideas what's going on here? Thanks for reading
 
It will be down to the HZ range.
If you set the value to 59Hz instead of 60 Hz from windows desktop, screen resolution in the advanced tab.
Then in the Nvidia control panel size the desktop via over or under scan it should work ok after that tweak.

Most likely by knocking the to 59hz range will be enough to complete the handshake.