Windows 10: Blown HDMI receptacle?

I have a month old HP laptop and use a 32" Vizio HDTV as a monitor. Everything has been working fine when all of a sudden the screen went black. I opened the laptop and that was black too (it usually comes on) .

Getting into panic mode, I did a hard shut down. I unplugged the peripherals, and booted the laptop, and the monitor came on, phew. Plugged the HDMI back in, black. Unplugged, back on.

I tested the TV on the cable box using HDMI and it worked fine. I tested the HDMI cable and that works too. I can only assume the problems lies in the laptop HDMI receptacle. Is there another way to test, or self-diagnose the receptacle?

EDIT: I should add if I plug the HDMI with the TV off, the laptop screen (when on dual screen) goes black. If I plug in the HDMI cord when attached to nothing there's doesn't appear to be a problem.

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Why exactly is ATi considered be better at HDMI?

I plug my HDMI cable into the card, then into my TV. Those are the steps that I have to do. All the steps you list make absolutely no sense to me.

 

Why exactly is ATi considered be better at HDMI?

Sound works fine only issue with me is underscan when connecting to my tv.

 

PC to TV through HDMI

Hi,

Have you tried to reconfigure your audio settings? If not, try to change your audio output settings to HDMI by following the steps below:

• Press Windows ( ) key + X.
• Select Control Panel.
• Click Hardware & Sound.
• Click Manage Audio Devices.
• Select the HDMI device listed under the Playback tab.
• Click Set as default and click Ok.

Also, we suggest to update your audio driver.

Let us know how it goes.