Switching off TV crashes my desktop pc!

danmanchester

Got a new TV last week, one of these Sony 32 lcd and it's fine (I hope!?) am very happy with it.

Over the weekend decided to hook it up to my desktop pc via DVI to HDMI - in my pc is a GeForce 9500GT graphics card with the latest drivers, the DVI-out is going into one of the HDMI sockets of my tv and my pc monitor is connected by VGA. All was seeming to work fine until I turned off the tv, it crashed the pc - "windows has recovered from an unexpected shutdown" message upon restart.

This has puzzled me as I had exactly the same set up with my previous tv (a Samsung) and never had any problems, same cable same pc/graphics card etc. Desktops set up as duplicate displays.

Any ideas why this has happened? Thanks in advance.

Oh I've just thought, the TV does have a vga input for pc and I could try using that but felt the quality (for video streaming from pc to tv) would be better using dvi/hdmi?

Painkiller

Does it still happen if you change the settings to only display on your pc monitor before turning the television off?

Consumerist

Have you tried removing the HDMI lead before switching-off the TV?

Notmyrealname

I suspect that like my TV yours is one of these that can send commands via HDMI. On mine it will send a change of input, volume and mute and power on/off which is brilliant when you have an AV amp connected to it.

Chances are its confusing the drivers for the graphics card and they're crashing out. Try updating the nVidia drivers to the latest version. Alternatively, use the VGA port on the TV although that'll need a different lead and DVI adapter if a DVI adapter wasn't included with the card.