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Users / Re: Trouble with DVI output on M2NPV-VM motherboard.

« on: July 30, 2008, 06:58:51 pm »

I was hoping to have this issue resolved by now. Best Buy was of little help (other than wanting to sell me another HDMI cable... go figure). I have moved my monitor out to my living room to boot up with both the DVI to HDMI and the VGA cables both plugged in, but still am getting nothing on the HDMI output. I did get a new DVI to HDMI cable and also got a DVI to HDMI adapter for another HDMI cable too, and neither worked either.

I am thinking that my next steps are to find out if there needs to be a further upgrade in the BIOS or try to load additional drivers for the onboard nVidia card. Any help or a direction in which to go would be appreciated. I have already followed the wiki for the a/v wizard and I also followed the steps outlined by Alx9r (thank you for the help), still with no luck.

~John

UPDATE: This is the first time I noticed this, when I changed my input on my television, I see "HDMI 1 : HD : 480p /VGA" on the screen, but still no picture. This seems like the television is getting some sort of signal, but not enough to display anything. This is only in the A/V wizard when I select DVI/HDMI and 480p for the resolution settings. This does not work if I select 720p or 1080p.

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Users / Re: Using my Windows PC and MCE

« on: July 28, 2008, 07:35:56 pm »

I don't know if this will help, but before I built my core/hybrid, I had LinuxMCE running on VMware server as a virtual appliance. This gave me a chance to work out a few issues and questions that I had about the program. This also gave me full access to my windows drives, where I have all of my audio media stored. I also was able to control both machines with the same wireless keyboard and mouse.  This also made it possible for me to connect to my home network the only way I can, by aWIFI card, which ordinarily works in windows, but not linux (vmware just used NAT for this).
This may be the opposite way of what you were asking, by using a windows machine to control your LMCE box, but it worked out very well for me. This also gave me the chance to play around with the bluetooth dongle and a wiimote and to add in custom artwork instead of only downloading pictures from flikr. VMware server is free to download and you can create your own machines with it.

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Users / Trouble with DVI output on M2NPV-VM motherboard.

« on: July 27, 2008, 03:56:28 am »

Greetings all,

   I have been lurking on this site for a while now and I have been playing around with LinuxMCE for the past three months in VmWare. I finally built a core/hybrid with the following specs:

Asus M2NPV-VM motherboard with 2 GB of RAM, using the onboard audio and video
AMD Athlon 64 X2 4600+ Processor
40 GB Quantum Fireball Hard Disk Drive
WinTV PVR-150 MCE TV Tuner
Ancient DVD Drive
Phillips 42" plasma television
Wiimote and Bluetooth dongle

   I basically went out and found most of the same components used in the demo video to avoid any major problems. For some reason, I was not able to install the 64 bit version (but that is for another thread). I have installed LinuxMCE 710 and it has been running fine on my desktop, connected to a 19" monitor. This afternoon, my DVI to HDMI cable arrived and I moved the core/hybrid to the living room and onto my entertainment stand. I plugged everything in and the final connection was for the video output. This is where everything just came to a screeching halt. I am getting nothing on the screen, it almost seems like there is no video out signal. I have done the following to try to correct this problem:
          Google search - found nothing that was specific to this problem
          Asus Forums - recommend updating BIOS to the version that I already have
          Searched LMCE Wiki - nothing that was specific to my problem
          There was nothing in the BIOS that I could change that was specific to the DVI-D output on the motherboard other than to choose the primary video out,
               which I set to "onboard" (as opposed to PCI or PCIe).
          I installed an old MSI PCIe video card (with ATI chipset) that also has an DVI-D output and S-video output and neither of those worked, I did change the
               BIOS to use PCIe for the primary.
   The only thing I can think of is that I either have a bad DVI to HDMI cable (and I have no idea as to how to test this) or the onboard DVI output is bad on my motherboard. I know the HDMI port works on the television because my DVD player plugs into it and it works fine. If anyone has any suggestions, it would be greatly appreciated. My plan now is the next time I have a chance, bring the DVI to HDMI cable to Best Buy to see if they have a way of testing it. Other than that, I might just have to buy another nVidia graphics card.

Again, any suggestions or help is greatly appreciated!

~John