8510p to HDTV through HDMI

I am trying to get my 8510p to display on my HDTV through the built in HDMI port. I connect my HDMI cable up, Press Fn-F4 nothing, press several times and all I get is a graphic on the 8510p's screen showing output to external monitor.

Checked installed HP help and it states what I am doing is correct.

I disconnect and re-connect to my DVD up scaler, and that works.

Any trick to getting this to work?

 

try desktop -> personalize -> display settings -> extend to this monitor (or something like that)

 

Tried nothing. Monitor #1 already checked as extended by default. I checked monitor #2, and applied made no difference, and actually reverted backed to un-checked.

 

When I first connected my 8510p to my HDTV via HDMI, either nothing would happen or it was all weird. To resolve this I had to install the catalyst control panel and haven't had any issues since then. Actually when I plug it in the laptop automatically detects the TV and clones the displays. Or extends...I forget.

Either way! All I can guess is that if you tried to extend the display onto the TV and nothing happened (and DON'T have CCC installed), then the HDMI cable might be bad.

 

It should automatically detect it.

What GPU and drivers are you using?

 

I'll give that a try. But the cable is good as I can swap between my DVD player and the HP and it works with the DVD player, and the HP, nothing.

 

Check your drivers. At first my drivers didn't work.

 

I grabbed that latest one I could find on the HP site, ver. 8.391 A Feb. 19, 2008.

PS: running Vista bus. edition 32-bit

 

Try www.laptopvideo2go.com drivers if you have an nvidia gpu. Im using these and it works great

So what GPU do you have?

 

ATI (I think, will have to double check at home)

 

Any luck yet?

Try having the notebook off, then connect it to the TV and boot it up. Thats what I had to do the first time to get it to work, and now it works every single time. Don't ask me why though.

Hope that helps.