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    HDMI Blue Screen of Death

    Discussion in 'VAIO / Sony' started by Pezza, Mar 11, 2008.

  1. Pezza

    Pezza Newbie

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    Hi,

    I've just taken delivery of a VGNAR61M, and on initially I was very happy with it. However, fresh out of the box, without installing anything other than iTunes and Office 2007, I'm having big HDMI troubles.

    Rather than having all my video sources going into my plasma, I have a Crystalio video processor ( http://www.crystalio.com/) which takes a variety of inputs at a variety of resolutions, scales them, and outputs them to my plasma at its native resolution. It's probably far less restricted in terms of input timings than any plasma screen.

    If I have the laptop turned off and the lead connected, then if the HDMI input on the processor isn't selected then it boots up fine. But, if I select the HDMI input while the laptop is on then I get the BSOD, and if I select it before I've turned it on then part-way through booting I get the BSOD.

    I've seen this problem mentioned several times on the web, but with no solution. Has anyone got any ideas? Would the laptopvideo2go.com drivers help?

    Thanks, Stuart
     
    Pezza, Mar 11, 2008
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  2. Pezza

    Pezza Newbie

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    Solved this one. The laptop came with NVidia drivers beginning with 156.XX. Upgraded them using the laptopvideo2go drivers to 167.something, and now HDMI works superbly! Only slight issue is that I have to shut the PC down, unplug the HDMI, and switch it on again in order to get the display to return to the laptop screen, but that's no big deal.

    Only issue now is that I'm only getting stereo over HDMI, and the config screen only shows two speakers. Any thoughts on this one about how to get Dolby & DTS over HDMI? I've got them ticked in the sound control panel, but to no avail...
     
    Pezza, Mar 12, 2008
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  3. mdsbrain

    mdsbrain Notebook Enthusiast

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    So your saying that you can't switch using the FN key to go from HDMI to the LCD?
     
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  4. Pezza

    Pezza Newbie

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    That's right, it just stays on the HDMI display, no matter what FN-F7(?) settings I select (Laptop, Laptop/HDMI, HDMI) laptop continues to be blank.

    Even on the NVidia control panel I can't select "laptop" as primary display, or anything other than "dualview". Once I try something other than these options the computer thinks for a while and then returns to the previous settings.

    I'm now using 167.43 drivers, anyone tried anything higher with success?
     
    Pezza, Mar 12, 2008
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  5. Transfer

    Transfer Notebook Consultant

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    I think my drivers on my brand new FZ are like 108 or something. HDMI switching with Fn key and unplugging/plugging in are no problem. You might want to get the drivers from Sony online.
     
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