PC to TV black screen RX 480 GIGABYTE

Dr_Abhi

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Nov 9, 2016
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Hi all,

I wanted to have desktop with UHD/4K gaming capabilities, I figured if I just put the entry level premium parts in would get the job done. Not was I wrong. The system was running fine on my FHD 50 inch TV. All the games Witcher 3/ashes of singularity ran without a hiccup at full specs. But when I connected my LG 40 inch UHDTV(40UF670T), the UHD resolution was not selected by default. I tried selecting it 2160p resolution manually, ignoring the 1080p recommendation by Windows. Screen went blank TV reported no signal and then the resolution reverted back to 1080p. Selected the resolution 2160p again, but this time pressed left arrow and enter key. That's when it started. Nothing was displayed on the screen. The pc would flash the BIOS screen and then the windows loading screen and then no signal.
Restarting my system didn't help. After the boot screen completely blank. I figured the 2160p resolution to be problem as I could not get the safe mode launched in Windows 10 decided to reinstall OS. Re-booted the system and amended the HDD boot up sequence. Everything went OK. OS detected the graphics card as a generic one and that too 4GB. Decided to manually update the graphics card drivers from device manager. Tried downloading/installing the drivers from online automatically. Midway through the download installation, without warning the black screen came back. I am at a total loss. No idea what's going on. Please help.

system configuration:
AMD FX 8320 stock clock with corsair H100i v2
Gigabyte 990FXA-UD5
Ram CORSAIR Vengeance 8 gb @1866MHz
Gigabyte RX 480 8GB stock speeds
Samsung 750 EVO 250Gb (master)
Seagate HDD 3TB (Slave)
Corsair RM1000i
Coolermaster Mastercase pro 5
WINDOWS 10 Pro.


Please note : manual downloading drivers and installation yielded the same problem.
Also the TV, had no issues connecting to my Lenovo G50-45 laptop and running 2160p resolution without a hiccup.
 

Dr_Abhi

Commendable
Nov 9, 2016
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1,510
It was the darn cable. Even though the cable had been advertised as high speed hdmi it wasn't running it. Switched it over to blurigger cable and it worked like a charm. The final resolution is 2160p@60Hz