AMD 7 series with Panasonic St50/GT50 bios sollution

[imginy]

This is a bit of information helpful to anyone like me that owns a 7 series AMD card and a 2012 Panasonic plasma.

For some reason these cards and these tv's show no bios at all when paired up together (something to do with the hdmi handshake).

Well I tried everything to get mine to show the bios and nothing worked until today when I finally got round to setting up my home theater.

I turned my pc on today and it was on the bios screen which is the first time I have seen it since switching to the 7950 5 months ago.

So the solution is to buy a home cinema system and run the hdmi through that first.

My home cinema system is the panasonic bt490 in case any ones wondering.

Now I can start overclocking again

 

[tommybhoy]

Glad you got it sorted as such, but wouldn't it have been considerably cheaper to run a dvi to vga cable to the TV.

I know it would be a pita switching inputs or un/plugging cables, but you don't really need into the bios that much especially as OC Genie is mostly configurable through windows.

 

[Orch]

Didn't work for me. Mine always ran through an AV receiver and still got no Bios.

7850 to GT50

 

[imginy]

Glad you got it sorted as such, but wouldn't it have been considerably cheaper to run a dvi to vga cable to the TV.

I know it would be a pita switching inputs or un/plugging cables, but you don't really need into the bios that much especially as OC Genie is mostly configurable through windows.

I had the home cinema anyway I just hadn't set it back up when I changed rooms so didn't cost me any more to use it plus now I can go back to playing my games in 5.1 and watching movies with amazing sound.

I really didn't get on well with OC genie and also when overclock failed it was a nightmare rebooting pc because it would hang in the bios and I wouldn't know what screen I was on.

Anyway I'm really happy to see my bios again

 

[imginy]

Didn't work for me. Mine always ran through an AV receiver and still got no Bios.

7850 to GT50

Damn that sucks man I know how frustrating it is

Maybe try a different receiver if you have one?

 

[tommybhoy]

, I thought you specifically bought the 5:1, happy days anyway.

 

[Make]

How do you manage to avoid screen burn when running a PC with a plasma?

Aggressive screen saver settings or something?

 

[Orch]

Damn that sucks man I know how frustrating it is

Maybe try a different receiver if you have one?

I'm good now, I just waited until I got my monitor and had already OC'd before hand anyway. Was a massive pain though.

 

[VincentHanna]

How do you manage to avoid screen burn when running a PC with a plasma?

Aggressive screen saver settings or something?

Nope, screen burn is overstated IMO.

Newer Plasmas have pixel orbiters and all sorts of things to stop screen burn happening. People say you get image retention (which is different, as it fades over time) but again, I never see this and I run my Panasonic VT50 with THX Bright Room mode, which according to most people should make the problem even worse.

 

[Orch]

I had some image retention after a few hours problem solving on my PC, you could see the windows launch icon and the clock after turning it off. Got me a bit worried but was gone by the morning thankfully!

But yeh, pixel orbiter and 3 minute screen saver.

 

[imginy]

How do you manage to avoid screen burn when running a PC with a plasma?

Aggressive screen saver settings or something?

There was quite a lot of image retention when I first got it but now a year later I never see it.

I have contrast settings quite dim and use pixel orbitor and watch sky television in between pc stuff which all helps.

Some people say it's an issue but doesn't effect me at all, it's something I don't even think about I will happily sit there staring at forums for a couple of hours.

As for screen saver I set it to switch screen off after 20 mins of not being used.