OH FOAK, your knowledge, please. I have just purchased a new AV amp with HDMI switching. All is good apart from one tiny thing. My Mac Mini is connected into one of the ports, but it seems to 'forget' that the Amp is there when the amp is turned off. Everything's fine if I leave the amp on, but if I turn it off, the only way I've found to get a picture back from the Mac is to reboot it. I've not tried pulling the HDMI plug out to see if that 'reminds' it, but it's tempting. Any ideas? -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
XP Pro, obviously. I dunno, when I was a lad and we all used bellwire for speaker cables it was all so much simpler.
not yet - I've just started trying to play with my TX-SR606 today I have my own learning curve to climb make and model might be a useful place for you to start
Just bought some speaker cable which has a 4mm gap between the conductors "to minimise crosstalk" ... WTF ???
EDID: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/EDID See under Limitations. Which Amp have you purchased? My Onkyo TX-NR905 handles it correctly and I can switch away from and return to the HTPC output correctly. I suspect the HDMI 'link' is maintained even if the source is not currently selected. If I plug the HTPC directly into the TV however, when I select a different source and then return to the HTPC I get the same problem as you describe. The only way of waking the connection back up I have found, is to physically disconnect and then reconnect the HDMI lead.
Yeah, sounds plausible, nothing immediately obvious though. I'll keep looking, cheers -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Arse! I assumed without reading the whole article that it would describe the problem. It doesn't. Elsewhere I've seen it reported that quite a few graphics cards have problems with EDID and exhibit the problem you describe. Though my google mojo, appears to have temporarily deserted me.
SONY STRDA2400ES Nice it is -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Not sure what relevance that has? The Mac copes with it fine on boot. Just seems stop sending out signals if the AMp is turned on and off. It's one of these. SONY STRDA2400ES Hmm, interesting. PITA but could be OK. I have a little switchbox that may sort it out -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Once the computer loses the EDID info, if 'forgets' how to use the display device (in this case, it sees your AV Rx as the display device). and hence, no picture. Devices are available to sort the problem: http://www.gefen.com/kvm/dproduct.jsp?prod_id=4714 -- Alex BMW R1150GS DIAABTCOD#3 MSWF#4 UKRMFBC#6 Ibw#35 BOB#8 Windy's "little soldier" cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Cool ta. Double the price over here as well. I'm a tad surprised that the Mac can't be forced to redetect IYSWIM -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Turns out that I already had one Not ideal as I was trying to replace it but it'll do until I find one of them gefen things at a sensible price. Oddly the Mac still remembers even with teh HDMI switch turned off..... Thanks for the help. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
Looks it but "It’ll do almost everything you could wish for, but might prove to be a difficult beast to set up if you have a lot of equipment." Sounds like you still have to find the right menu or something
I imagine it wasn't that pricey either? I don't use door-bell wire but the like, 3rd one up Richer Sounds sells at £2 a metre or something. It has some of you crosstalk minimising witch-craft and is sufficiently cheap enough to be able to buy loads to make sure I have enough with a load extra for future changes and not so expensive as I think "I've bought this because it's expensive, knowing it's not gonna be noticeably different...." To be fair, going from doorbell wire (it was a rush wire job just getting them going prior to a load of mates coming round) to that did make a difference, sound was definately clearer and actually a bit louder as well!
You ain't kidding. Could be. Pretty sure Alex had the right of it though. -- Catman MIB#14 SKoGA#6 TEAR#4 BOTAFOF#38 Apostle#21 COSOC#3 Tyger, Tyger Burning Bright (Remove rust to reply) 116 Giulietta 3.0l Sprint 1.7 145 2.0 Cloverleaf 156 V6 2.5 S2 Triumph Sprint ST 1050: It's blue, see. www.cuore-sportivo.co.uk
What I bought a 50m reel of for £40 was slightly better than their £2/metre stuff. I used 40 metres of it I have a reel of cheaper stuff (which was a tenner for 100m) which would have been adequate, but can't find the reel the point being that there is no such thing as crosstalk between two speaker wires, the voltage seen at the speakers is just the difference between the two conductors Witchcraft aside, the thicker it is (within reason), the better it can handle spikes. If you've paid £1500 for the rest of it, I don't see much sense in saving a couple of tenners on connecting them up
DanB wibbled... It can't possibly be! You'll have the physysysycists shouting at you and hitting you over the heads with their oscillyscopy printouts
