Windows 10: HDMI TV (Display 2) Blinks When my Monitor (Display 1) goes to sleep

Hi Everyone,

I bought a new monitor last week and since setting it up I seem to be having some connection issues. In the past, I had one HDMI-out from the GPU to the AV Reciever by my TV (where I do most of my gaming) and a DVI out heading from my GPU to the PC monitor. It worked fine.

But, my old monitor stopped working last week so I purchased a new one. It doesn't have a DVI input so I purchased a Display-Port to HDMI cable which also works fine with the new monitor. The cable to the AV receiver hasn't been moved and is also working fine.

The problem though is that when I set-up my TV as the main display and the PC monitor falls asleep Windows seems to think it's connecting and reconnecting over and over again. I hear the hardware connection/disconnections sounds infinitely and the TV screen blinks a black screen every time.

I have tried a few solutions, mainly involving power-management settings. None of these worked except for disabling "USB Selective Suspend Setting", but then I was having connection trouble with my wireless devices like my mouse and steam controller.

My graphics card is a Gigabyte R9 290, and I am running Windows 10. Thanks in advance for helping me troubleshoot guys. Happy to participate and answer any questions to get this resolved.

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[Windows 10] HDMI monitor becomes undetected and detected repeatedly if it's switched to other devices.

Everything works fine with Windows 7.

I have 3 monitors, 2 DVI and 1 HDMI and I use the HDMI one as my main monitor.

I also have a headphone "MDR-HW700DS" and it has a HDMI switcher(3-in/1-out).

My PC and my Xbox1 are connected to the HDMI input1 and input2 of the switcher.

After upgrading to Windows 10, My main monitor(HDMI) will goes off and on in 1 second but repeatedly about every 5 seconds when I switch to display the Xbox1.

Which means, my main monitor(HDMI) will be disappeared(undetected) from the display settings for 1 second and suddenly be detected and remains only about 5 seconds, then loop.

It's really annoying and I can't do any multi-task in this situation, because one of my secondary(DVI) monitors will blink every 5 seconds.

When the main monitor is undetected, all the desktop icons and active-windows on it will be pushed to my secondary monitor(it will become the main monitor automatically) and also causes it to blink(like the blink after you adjust your display settings).
And my main(HDMI) monitor will be detected in 1 second(all the desktop icons and active-windows will go back to main monitor), so the secondary monitor will blink again and remain steady for only 5 seconds, then the main(HDMI) monitor will be undetected again
and looping.

This never happened when I was using Windows 7.

 

my dell inspiron 5555 windows 10 will not connect to my hdtv via hdmi

thanks for the reply mike... the sec I plug in the hdmi into the laptop the hdtv blinks with a pic of my desktop and goes black and says no signal and my laptop screen turns off. when I unplug the hdmi cable from the laptop the screen comes back on and I
can see the laptop has detected the tv and the details about the tv are displayed and disappear aafter a sec or two