XPS m1530 HDMI-to-DVI looks really odd

Sorry if this has been asked before. I ran a search and didn't find anything similar. When I connect my m1530 to an LCD monitor with an HDMI-to-DVI cable everything looks like shades of green and magenta. I've tried several different cables of various price ranges and two different monitors, a 1905fpw and a 2405fpw. I also tried it on my HDTV and it works just fine there. Is the *05fpw line of monitors just not compatible with HDMI or am I doing something wrong?

Thanks

 

Maybe one of your pin is damaged? DVI is just HDMI without audio. It's still digital to digital. Judging by your description of the colour. It looks like the pin carrying red is dead?

 

the only (real) place to get cables is monoprice.com

since u said u tried several cables, either the HDMI port on the laptop is bad(unlikely, since ur HDTV works) or the port on the monitor is bad... does the monitor have VGA?

 

The monitors I tried have VGA and they work fine. I have two Dell 1905FPW monitors at work and one 2405FPW at home. I'm perfectly happy using the VGA port on my home monitor (I tried the DVI port for testing purposes). I would like to run dual external displays at work. All monitors have functional DVI ports since they currently work with desktop computers at each location. The HDMI/DVI cable I just tried a minute ago is functional because it runs a signal from my cable box to my TV and my laptop to my TV. I run into problems when I try to use an HDMI/DVI cable from my laptop to a monitor. The only thing in common seems to be that they're all Dell monitors since other posts seem to be running an external display just fine with HDMI.

 

Hi,

HDMI supports a handful of color spaces including sRGB and YCbCr. When your notebook is sending out signals in one color space and your monitor thinks that it is receiving it in a different one you can experience what you're seeing. After what you said about the same cable working fine with a different device and your laptop working fine on your TV it seems that both your cable and your laptop are working okay. It must be a handshaking issue with HDMI.

My upscaling Oppo DVD player had some handshaking issues with my HDTV where sometimes everthing would be pinkish or redish. I'd have to power cycle the DVD player until it got it right....then a firmware update fixed it.

Anyway, see if there are any advanced settings for changing the color space either in the video driver on your laptop or the settings for your monitor. I'm pretty sure that is your problem.

I haven't ever used my HDMI port on my 1530, I was just googling around to see what the deal is, if it is painless, and mainly to see how it works under Linux.

You can thank all of these retarded standards and handshaking to DRM. Like anybody was going to rip an uncompressed movie from an HDMI cable when the nice compressed source is sitting there on the BluRay ready to be ripped anyway.

 

Hello all,

I just thought I'd add a follow up just in case anyone having this problem stumbled across this thread in Google or something. In my infinite wisdom, I didn't bother to check for new Nvidia drivers. I ran an update through Dell and now everything is perfectly peachy. Thanks everyone who replied.