Peronally I picked up a HDMI

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January 3, 2016 at 7:58 pm #8601
oliverredfox
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    Peronally I picked up a HDMI Detective years ago to deal with this.  But with how cheap a used Xbox 360 is, I’d likely run headless on the HTPC and use an extender these days.

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    So after reading I decided the HDMI pin 19 trick might be the fix I need. The problem I’m running into is after taping off pin 19 I don’t get any video signal. If I connect the HDMI cable to the AVR or directly to the TV I can see the PC boot up, BIOS screen but right after the Windows boot logo switches to the logon/desktop the signal disappears. If I remove the tape it all works again. I’ve been searching the web all night but haven’t seen that behavior described when messing with pin 19. I’ve tried redoing the tape a half dozen times in case I was covering up some additional pins or something. Anyone have any thoughts? Thanks in advance.

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    Since pin 19 effects monitor detection, it’s likely Windows isn’t seeing it right and doing a weird setup/resoltion causing it to not have a signal at the logon/desktop point.  Try putting something like Chrome Remote desktop on your system (and make sure you can connect right on boot with a phone, tablet, or other computer).  Then reboot with the pin 19 mod.  Once it’s booted, use the remote desktop to go into your settings and manually force the monitor correctly with the right resolution/refresh rate/etc.