Troubleshooting Hdmi; Blank Screen After Powering Up And During Initial Startup With Hdmi; Recovering Your System With Hdmi Or Dvi/Hdmi - HP z560 Setup Manual

Troubleshooting HDMI

This section contains important information about troubleshooting problems that may occur with your HP Digital
Entertainment Center HDMI Video Out Setup, especially when you connect an HDMI cable to your HDTV.
This section also applies to connecting DVI with an HDMI adapter cable.

Blank screen after powering up and during initial startup with HDMI

Problem: After powering up and during initial startup, if your HP Digital Entertainment Center is connected to
HDMI Video Out, you may notice that the TV/display screen is: dark, blue, distorted, cropped, or inside dark
borders.
Solution: If your HDTV displays these conditions, or is too difficult to use, see the following table:
Blank screen for:
1 to 2 minutes after you first turn on your
system during initial setup.
About 30 seconds after restarting.

Recovering your system with HDMI or DVI/HDMI

Problem: On some TVs you do not see a blue and white HP logo screen that shows the function key
F10=System Recovery selection. You cannot perform recovery or certain activities in HDMI.
Solution: Change your Video Out connection to VGA; recover your system; and then reconnect the HDMI
connection.
Go to http://www.hp.com/support to make sure that you have updated software.
NOTE:
Action:
No action is required.
CAUTION: Do not restart your HP Digital Entertainment Center
until the screen indicates that setup is complete.
No action is required. Do not restart your HP Digital Entertainment Center.
Please wait for the display to reappear.
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