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Markisa
So I just bought this monitor in persuit of making use of my HD 5770's HDMI capibilities. I have a few questions about HDMI tho.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009179

I figured HDMI was a new stand alone plug like a VGA or DVI plug, am I wrong to of believed this? (I guess so). My new monitor displayed POST just fine with just HDMI plugged in but once Win7 booted up colors got crazy and impossible to see. I checked out the quick install manual and it said to plug in DVI and VGA and optionally, plug in HDMI. I plugged in the DVI (also, HDMI is still plugged in), booted up and now here I am with the monitor working fine, but is the HDMI doing its job of high definition picture? And from Wikipedia's article on HDMI, it makes it sound like it is suppose to be a audio cable too, but if I pull out the standard green audio cable I lose sound. Is my HDMI cable doing anything. . ? Is it just this monitor that makes weird if not any use of HDMI? Did I get chipped? Please any clearing up on any of my questions or just a basic explanation of HDMI would be much appreciated, I'm rather uneducated in this area currently.
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First off, you ONLY plug in HDMI, leave everything else unplugged. Under playback devices, or w/e it's called, you should see your monitor come up, and you'll have to enable that. Also, the green plug has to be in to use external speakers. HDMI audio is only going to use your monitor speakers, unless your monitor has an audio-out to plug that green cable into, but that is kind of redundant.

I hope that helps!
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Pheatton
If you want to use HDMI then it should be just the one HDMI cable. I see that once you plugged it in you got some color issues when your monitor came on for Windows.

Is it fine over DVI?
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Markisa
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First off, you ONLY plug in HDMI, leave everything else unplugged. Under playback devices, or w/e it's called, you should see your monitor come up, and you'll have to enable that. Also, the green plug has to be in to use external speakers. HDMI audio is only going to use your monitor speakers, unless your monitor has an audio-out to plug that green cable into, but that is kind of redundant.

I hope that helps!


Kind of, it is built in speakers I'm using on the monitor so I didn't think the green cable would be needed but it is, if I unplug it audio is gone. Do I need specific drivers for the monitor to work with HDMI? The monitor came with a CD but its not drivers, just a user manual. Like I said, plugging in just the HDMI came up with terrible terrible color distortion. Could this mean a problem with my video card? :3
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If you want to use HDMI then it should be just the one HDMI cable. I see that once you plugged it in you got some color issues when your monitor came on for Windows.

Is it fine over DVI?

Yes its fine over DVI, is that signel equivalent to what HDMI would produce?
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chevymeister
You need to hook up the SPDIF on your video card for HDMI to produce sound to your speakers. It doesn't just magically create sound through the cable.

Don't know about your video issues though. HDMI and DVI are identical in terms of quality. HDMI just has audio.
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Yes its fine over DVI, is that signel equivalent to what HDMI would produce?

Some may say otherwise, but I think the signals are EXTREMELY similar, ie. very good. Would you prefer to use the monitors built in speakers? I can't imagine they are as good as even cheap stand alone speakers.
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You need to hook up the SPDIF on your video card for HDMI to produce sound to your speakers. It doesn't just magically create sound through the cable.

Don't know about your video issues though. HDMI and DVI are identical in terms of quality. HDMI just has audio.

Ah yes, my mistake. My monitor has usb speakers, it wasn't the HDMI that was playing the audio. Good point.
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chevymeister
Yes, hopefully your video card came with it.
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For the most part HDMI and DVI are pretty close in terms of picture quality. My Asus has both DVI and HDMI. I tried both and did not see any difference. Im using DVI now since my PS3 is using my HDMI cable to my 32' Sharp 1080p.
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Markisa
Win7 found drivers but that didn't fix ****. Maybe its the cable but I don't have any other HDMI cables to test it.
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So I just bought this monitor in persuit of making use of my HD 5770's HDMI capibilities. I have a few questions about HDMI tho.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16824009179

I figured HDMI was a new stand alone plug like a VGA or DVI plug, am I wrong to of believed this? (I guess so). My new monitor displayed POST just fine with just HDMI plugged in but once Win7 booted up colors got crazy and impossible to see. I checked out the quick install manual and it said to plug in DVI and VGA and optionally, plug in HDMI. I plugged in the DVI (also, HDMI is still plugged in), booted up and now here I am with the monitor working fine, but is the HDMI doing its job of high definition picture? And from Wikipedia's article on HDMI, it makes it sound like it is suppose to be a audio cable too, but if I pull out the standard green audio cable I lose sound. Is my HDMI cable doing anything. . ? Is it just this monitor that makes weird if not any use of HDMI? Did I get chipped? Please any clearing up on any of my questions or just a basic explanation of HDMI would be much appreciated, I'm rather uneducated in this area currently.
I would stick with DVI. Single link DVI supports resolutions up to 1080p, same as HDMI. both are digital to digital and have no image quality loss die to EMI. Dual-Link DVI actually supports twice as much bandwidth, and therefore supports resolutions beyond 1080p. I had to get a Dual Link DVI for my 2048x1152 Samsung LCD.
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