hdmi cable doent work with ati cards?

[lanzarobbie]

Hi ive brought a new longer hdmi cable which runs to my tv on extended display for watching films.

I cant get a picture, ive tried with my second pc with a geforce 6800gt and it works fine?

Ive now installed a 5850 to replace my 4850 and still nothing, the 4850 is now in the second pc replacing the 6800gt and no tv display from this either?

So it must be the ati cards dont like my new 10m cable, yet my 7m and 8m are fine?

Anyone got any ideas.

Thanks

 

[MichaelM]

Have you tried using the shorter cables with that setup?
Is the card setup right?
Is the TV setup right?

 

[lanzarobbie]

the shorter cables work fine , also ive just tried my sky hd with the cable and it say this device is not hdcp compatible?

 

[Mr Paul]

That's your problem.

 

[kylew]

Hi ive brought

Where did you bring it from?

 

[lanzarobbie]

all from ebay but different retailers, where i live is very hard to buy these over 2 m , my 7m and 8m have been fine but ive changed my room around and needed a longer cable.

 

[Mr Paul]

You need a HDCP compliant cable

 

[lanzarobbie]

This cable was advertised as 1.4 for use with sky hd, blu ray ect.

 

[kingy666]

This cable was advertised as 1.4 for use with sky hd, blu ray ect.

It maybe 1.4 but if it's not HDCP compliant then it won't work. Sometimes thats the problem when 'bringing' cheap cables off the bay of e.

I 'brought' a cheap HDMI cable once and i could not get my sound to work through it so i spent a few quid more and got a 3m one for about £7 from an online store.

 

[kylew]

all from ebay but different retailers, where i live is very hard to buy these over 2 m , my 7m and 8m have been fine but ive changed my room around and needed a longer cable.

What I meant is that it's "bought" rather than "brought".

 

[pingu666]

HDCP is sodding annoying and pointless? unless you make the hdcp chips.
you could try daisy chaining your hdmi cables that do work, and also updating the firmware of your tv/devices. i did that a few days ago and now hdmi is better behaved with my htpc. before we had to turn things on in a certain order, so ended up using the vga :/

 

[kylew]

It maybe 1.4 but if it's not HDCP compliant then it won't work. Sometimes thats the problem when 'bringing' cheap cables off the bay of e.

I 'brought' a cheap HDMI cable once and i could not get my sound to work through it so i spent a few quid more and got a 3m one for about £7 from an online store.

Rather than being cheap, I think they're more dodgy cables that don't meet the spec. As for being 1.4, I'm pretty sure the cables themselves aren't 1.4 (it's basically just a DVI cable with a different connector, no?) but rather the devices they're used to connect are 1.4 spec.

 

[pingu666]

Im not sure, hdmi isnt a dumb cable/interface, self aware, and aware of whats going on, kinda, its partly that that makes it so annoying

 

[CSA]

Have you set up the windows/driver options properly ? i have mine set to "duplicate" and works fine BUT when i bought a new tv my old 5m HDMI cable refused to work altho it worked fine with my old tv, i bought a new 1.4 from the bay and it worked fine,im not sure if it was HDCP compliant because i didnt take that into consideration at the time

 

[MichaelM]

I dunno, I think its not to late for us to just blame it on "ATI" or atleast their drivers