So I have been using my TV as my monitor to watch movies and play games for about a year now. Then my friend comes over and we wanna watch something on the big screen in the other room. That works fine as well. He leaves and I go back to my TV and I can't get the HDMI signal to work. No picture shows up. Just a "check signal cable" message.
So far i have tried two different HDMI cables, both of which i have confirmed to be working on the offending TV with my PS3. I have updated my video driver. I have tried all sorts of different resolution settings. I have taken my laptop and hooked it up to another display via HDMI and it works. I have taken my brothers laptop which is almost identical to mine (both gateway, look exactly the same except mine is a p-6831fx and his is a slightly different model number) and hooked it up to my TV and that works too. So basically:
my TV + not my laptop = works
my laptop + not my TV = works
My TV + my laptop = not works
I just don't understand what could be wrong. Especially since it has worked flawlessly for such a long time. Any ideas or maybe a setting I am missing?
So far i have tried two different HDMI cables, both of which i have confirmed to be working on the offending TV with my PS3. I have updated my video driver. I have tried all sorts of different resolution settings. I have taken my laptop and hooked it up to another display via HDMI and it works. I have taken my brothers laptop which is almost identical to mine (both gateway, look exactly the same except mine is a p-6831fx and his is a slightly different model number) and hooked it up to my TV and that works too. So basically:
my TV + not my laptop = works
my laptop + not my TV = works
My TV + my laptop = not works
I just don't understand what could be wrong. Especially since it has worked flawlessly for such a long time. Any ideas or maybe a setting I am missing?