1. mrHTN  •  HTN Guru

   

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   Joined: Apr '07

   I just got my Xonar card installed. Everything was working fine for a couple days with bitstreaming working and DTS-HD MA showing up on my receiver. However, now I just get a black screen when my HTPC starts up. I’m guessing it some BS HDCP handshacking issue with my HTPC and the receiver, but was wondering if anyone had any other suggestions. I have a Denon 3808 receiver and a Win XP HTPC with a Nvidea 8800 GTS video card.

   The black screen starts after the Win XP opening logo. I don’t get why it worked for a couple days (with multiple reboots), and now won’t work at all.

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2. mrHTN  •  HTN Guru

   

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   Joined: Apr '07

   OK, so I tried updating my receivers firmaware and it don't work. I then tried to uplug everything and it dodn't work. What did work (at least so far) is switch the DVI inputs on my video card. Hopefully there won't be anymore HDMI sync issues, but I'm not confident.

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3. mrHTN  •  HTN Guru

   

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   To give a status update, I'm still having random sync issues. Usually turning on/off the receiver will fix the problem, but I shouldn't have to do that extra step. Hopefully I'll have some time to work on it this weekend.

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4. mrHTN  •  HTN Guru

   

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   Turns out it was the Nvidia driver causing the problems. The newer drivers have a "feature" to help with overscan issues that was causing HDCP syncing issues. I went back to an older 182.08 version and haven't had any problems in over a week.

   Now I can sit back and enjoy the 7.1 surround sound!

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