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So, I use audio via HDMI on my Jasper arcade that I got on Thanksgiving. No worries. Last night I am using it. This morning I turn it on and no audio via the hdmi. I have tried two cables, multiple HDMI channels. I've tried turning it on and off before the tv, after the tv. I've tried removing the hard drive--any multitude of things. Audio works fine via the cheapy ugly white/red, but with HDMI, no dice. Back to walmart. Epic fail.

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Apparently others here have had the same problem--one guy's even died on day 27 just like mine! I don't believe it's a TV issue, as I've never had problems with this TV before (11 months old), and for the record I DO still see the HD (720, 1080, etc.) options, so the xbox doesn't think it's VGA; it simply has no audio via HDMI anymore.

I was about to get the extended warranty, too, after my previous Xbox original died after a year and my PS2 after two. Maybe I am cursed, but in any case, these things in my experience are more fragile than Oprah's commitment to a diet. Go with the extended warranty.

*UPDATE*

I have the new console on there and same thing. I think it must be my TV. In the thread I linked to, some people felt it was their TV and others felt it was the 360, but this new one still refuses to work for audio with HDMI so I'll have to cut up the yellow/white/red cable so that it will squeeze in alongside the HDMI.

OK, after extensive testing, I believe my TV is now incapable of receiving audio via any of the HDMI channels. Two cables, any of the four HDMI inputs and all that, it's no good. If I use analog (white/red) no problems. Too bad it did this, I'm not inclined to get it fixed as it seems a bit strange to use the TV as a "hub" for audio anyway, but oh well.

I ripped apart the analog's plastic covering, so now I have the HDMI cable to TV and standard analog straight to receiver. This will probably help with the lag problems I sometimes have in guitar hero anyway (yes I know it can be calibrated).

* UPDATE 1/3/2009*

OK, this is a legit one:

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The console was off, and cold. I turned it on by hitting the eject on the disc tray, stuck a disc in, and while it was doing its boot sequence changed my TV's input to the HDMI channel for the 360 and this is what I got, along with a red flashing ring. Turning the console off and on repaired this. I know that the TV talks back to the console (somehow, when I change input settings on the TV, like if I go to cable and want to keep the console turned on, it will instead reboot when I revert back to the game channel), so I wonder if that impacted this.

FAQ online says E68 is insufficient voltage. I do have the 150W power pack.
 

mugs

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Might want to try hooking it up to another TV, just in case. Does optical audio work?
 

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Originally posted by: mugs
Might want to try hooking it up to another TV, just in case. Does optical audio work?
I have no optical cable; the arcade has only HDMI and the other fitting as outputs. This works fine on another tv with the white/red; there is a specific audio problem with the HDMI output itself, I believe.
A free shipping box to M$!!!!
Already called walmart; am going to switch it out right now for an arcade they have in stock. I'm glad I had a HD to move my stuff over to :)
 

shiner

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I'm beginning to think I'm the only person on the planet who hasn't had a problem with their Xbox 360.
 

cyphilis

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Im beginning to really have second thoughts on finally pulling the trigger on a 360.
 

mugs

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: mugs
Might want to try hooking it up to another TV, just in case. Does optical audio work?
I have no optical cable; the arcade has only HDMI and the other fitting as outputs. This works fine on another tv with the white/red; there is a specific audio problem with the HDMI output itself, I believe.
A free shipping box to M$!!!!
Already called walmart; am going to switch it out right now for an arcade they have in stock. I'm glad I had a HD to move my stuff over to :)

The composite A/V dongle doesn't have an optical output on it? I thought it did.
 

mugs

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Originally posted by: shinerburke
I'm beginning to think I'm the only person on the planet who hasn't had a problem with their Xbox 360.

I haven't had a problem with my Xbox 360. I did have problems with my last two Xbox 360s though. :laugh: Maybe you're lucky, maybe you're unlucky and yours will die out of warranty. :( I wouldn't count on it working in 30 years like my 2600 does though. ;)
 

biggestmuff

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You didn't change anything with your setup? No TV setting changes? No physical connectivity changes?

EDIT: I see your second update you mention a receiver. What was the original setup that all of a sudden stopped working?
 

gorcorps

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Originally posted by: shinerburke
I'm beginning to think I'm the only person on the planet who hasn't had a problem with their Xbox 360.

That makes 2 of us. Got it Sept of 07 and I have yet to have any problems with it.
 

Injury

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Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: mugs
Might want to try hooking it up to another TV, just in case. Does optical audio work?
I have no optical cable; the arcade has only HDMI and the other fitting as outputs. This works fine on another tv with the white/red; there is a specific audio problem with the HDMI output itself, I believe.
A free shipping box to M$!!!!
Already called walmart; am going to switch it out right now for an arcade they have in stock. I'm glad I had a HD to move my stuff over to :)

The composite A/V dongle doesn't have an optical output on it? I thought it did.

I believe it's only the elite versions that include the cable.
 

mugs

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Originally posted by: Injury
Originally posted by: mugs
Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: mugs
Might want to try hooking it up to another TV, just in case. Does optical audio work?
I have no optical cable; the arcade has only HDMI and the other fitting as outputs. This works fine on another tv with the white/red; there is a specific audio problem with the HDMI output itself, I believe.
A free shipping box to M$!!!!
Already called walmart; am going to switch it out right now for an arcade they have in stock. I'm glad I had a HD to move my stuff over to :)

The composite A/V dongle doesn't have an optical output on it? I thought it did.

I believe it's only the elite versions that include the cable.

That's the audio cable, I'm talking about the composite A/V cable which has the yellow video and red and white audio cables. It comes with the Arcade. The component cable that comes with the with the standard 360 model and the Elite has optical output, I thought the composite cable that comes with the Arcade has it too.

The one you're talking about that only comes with the Elite only has audio outputs.
 

mugs

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OP - told-ya-so :p Was the audio just being played through your TV's speakers before, or was the TV passing it through to the receiver via optical? If the latter, have you ruled out the optical input on the receiver as the culprit? Or even the optical cable itself.
 

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Originally posted by: mugs
OP - told-ya-so :p Was the audio just being played through your TV's speakers before, or was the TV passing it through to the receiver via optical? If the latter, have you ruled out the optical input on the receiver as the culprit? Or even the optical cable itself.
Passed through TV to receiver (separate analog cable) but I was able to have receiver audio and tv at the same time (not that I did). TV can still happily send to the receiver and it will happily play on its own speakers IF I use analog; I can find no way at all to get audio via the HDMI now. Since I'm on xbox 2, I find it unlikely it's the xbox, or the cables; it has to be the TV. For some reason it simply ignores all audio input on HDMI now. That seems strange, but that is what it's doing.

In the thread I found and posted in first link, clearly some people were having problems with tv because fiddling with it changed it, but those who said that doing their hard drive fixed it (plus a comment from MS support) indicated that the potential was high it was Xbox related. Kind of a PITA. I can do stereo still, as I was, but if I want optical in the future I'll need the proper xbox optical output to run that straight to receiver.
 

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Originally posted by: Rage187
so all this ruckus about your new broken xbox and it turns out it is your TV?
Yes, sir, although it was not jumping to conclusions; I literally did find a multitude of others with the same problem, although strangely no final solution for any of them, despite it being an old thread.
 

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Originally posted by: mugs
I bet your wife found the menu button on your tv remote :p
Would it be any funnier if I said I had to go back to Walmart 4 hours later to have a game ejected from the thing that I'd forgotten? :)

 

cpacini

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Did you try unplugging the power cable for the tv from the wall? Every couple of months my HDMI ports on my TV will stop receiving video. Unpluging the TV and plugging it back in fixes it.
 

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Originally posted by: cpacini
Did you try unplugging the power cable for the tv from the wall? Every couple of months my HDMI ports on my TV will stop receiving video. Unpluging the TV and plugging it back in fixes it.
If I was a weaker man, or maybe a smarter one to not have made the thread, I would not admit now that in fact you have solved the problem. @*$& me :) Who's ever heard of having to reboot a TV? ok, probably a lot of people, and now me. Dumb thing is this was mentioned in that other thread and was the only thing of many that I did not try. This thread is filled with various levels of self-ownage.
 

jjzelinski

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Originally posted by: Skoorb
Originally posted by: cpacini
Did you try unplugging the power cable for the tv from the wall? Every couple of months my HDMI ports on my TV will stop receiving video. Unpluging the TV and plugging it back in fixes it.
If I was a weaker man, or maybe a smarter one to not have made the thread, I would not admit now that in fact you have solved the problem. @*$& me :) Who's ever heard of having to reboot a TV? ok, probably a lot of people, and now me. Dumb thing is this was mentioned in that other thread and was the only thing of many that I did not try. This thread is filled with various levels of self-ownage.

well at least you can help others learn from your mistakes. Good for you for having the fortitude to admit what the solution ended up being.
 

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OK, this is a legit one:

error1

The console was off, and cold. I turned it on by hitting the eject on the disc tray, stuck a disc in, and while it was doing its boot sequence changed my TV's input to the HDMI channel for the 360 and this is what I got, along with a red flashing ring. Turning the console off and on repaired this. I know that the TV talks back to the console (somehow, when I change input settings on the TV, like if I go to cable and want to keep the console turned on, it will instead reboot when I revert back to the game channel), so I wonder if that impacted this.

FAQ online says E68 is insufficient voltage. I do have the 150W power pack.