Question for xboxers / tech geeks and freaks
cat_with_no_tail
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Got home, set up my new xbox, connected via the HDMI cable previously used for my blu-ray player.
Picture works fine but I've got no sound for some reason.
HDMI cable and socket on telly work fine because I just tested them.
why I have no sounds?
talk to me (in small words I'll understand please)
Picture works fine but I've got no sound for some reason.
HDMI cable and socket on telly work fine because I just tested them.
why I have no sounds?
talk to me (in small words I'll understand please)
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hmm ill turn on my xbox via HDMI and have a play
hmm go all the way along on the my xbox tab, til u get to the system settings, then go on console settings, audio, and just play around with those 3
see if that works?
if not you can try doing the intial set up again which is at the bottom of system settings, see if that fixes it
also, check tvs not muted, volumes up and the HDMI cable is in properly0 -
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i took that as a given on the grounds its an xbox
not that im biased, but my ps3 get played way more than my xbox
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Cat With No Tail wrote:Got home, set up my new xbox, connected via the HDMI cable previously used for my blu-ray player.
Picture works fine but I've got no sound for some reason.
HDMI cable and socket on telly work fine because I just tested them.
why I have no sounds?
talk to me (in small words I'll understand please)
I know exactly what you've done!!!
you haven't plugged in a sound cable.... simples,
you've connected it via something like this?
whereas you need something like
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errrm, no you don't. HDMI carries both the sound and picture.0
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well mine does so :P
Not quite sure why yours wouldn't0 -
whaaaaaaaaat?
That's feckin GHEY!
Yes, I used the cables that look like the top ones. You can connect a scart cable up too, but the one that comes with the boc has a flap thing that covers up the HDMI port when it's plugged in, so it's either Scart OR HDMI.
So if my regular HDMI cable works for my bluray player, why wont it work for my xbox? Is it because Microsofft want to rape me in the ass for yet more of my hard (ish) earned money? If I ever meet Steve Ballmer I'm gonna kick him in the nuts!0 -
Cat With No Tail wrote:whaaaaaaaaat?
That's feckin GHEY!
If I ever meet Steve Ballmer I'm gonna kick him in the nuts!
or you could use the hammer/rollin pin i asked about for this very reason earlier.0 -
is it a new style xbox 360? the kinect compatable ones? cause mines just plugged in with an HDMI, and works fine
however if i use the XBOX HDMI cable on the ps3, it totally fucks the image up, and doesnt play sound.0 -
sheepsteeth wrote:Cat With No Tail wrote:whaaaaaaaaat?
That's feckin GHEY!
If I ever meet Steve Ballmer I'm gonna kick him in the nuts!
or you could use the hammer/rollin pin i asked about for this very reason earlier.
Don't push me, I'm a man on the edge right now!
I'll Hammer your rollin pin in a minute0 -
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It's true, I walk like the missing link as a result0
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Cat With No Tail wrote:whaaaaaaaaat?
That's feckin GHEY!
Yes, I used the cables that look like the top ones. You can connect a scart cable up too, but the one that comes with the boc has a flap thing that covers up the HDMI port when it's plugged in, so it's either Scart OR HDMI.
So if my regular HDMI cable works for my bluray player, why wont it work for my xbox? Is it because Microsofft want to rape me in the ass for yet more of my hard (ish) earned money? If I ever meet Steve Ballmer I'm gonna kick him in the nuts!
I don't think that you need a xbox specific HDMI lead, i use a cheapo asda one on my xbox and it works fine (this is an old elite though)
Sounds like there is a problem with the settings somewhere. Have you made sure that you TV is set to play the sound from the hdmi.0 -
projectsome wrote:alexj2233 wrote:errrm, no you don't. HDMI carries both the sound and picture.
not on the xbox 360 it doesn't.... well at least mine and several others didn't....
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I had a 360 when they first came out and never needed a seperate sound cable, thats the whole point of HDMI for the sound and video to go through one cable no?
Oh btw 360s are crap thats why I sold mine and got a PS30 -
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Sound settings on the dashboard. I have an HDMI cable only (no extra sounds cable or whatever) Pretty sure when I got my new TV I had the same problem.0
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Hmmm, been in through the sound settings and that didn't work. Volume on telly is up, sound works on the same telly, through the same input using the BRplayer. Going to borrow a different HDMI cable off a mate tomorrow and see if it's any different. As said above though, I dont see why it should be. An HDMI cable is an HDMI cable, they all do the same thing.
Oh, and to answer an earlier question, it's one of the newones, the kinekt ready 250gb ones.
I will hold off judgement before saying I should have bought a PS3, although right now, I'm almost wishing I had.
Currently playing through scart, which works perfectly well, but seems to defeat the purpose of buying an HD games machine to me.0 -
Ok, it's working now. Not sure why, but I *think* it's something to do with my sky+ HD box. I unplugged the HDMI cable from the sky box, and the xbox started working straight away.
Now the only problem that I have is that the lights on the sky box go MENTAL when the xbox is on. the red recording light is flashing really fast, and the power light is cycling htough red, orange, green really fast. :shock: :?0 -
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Explore the HDMI settings on the TV - there'll probably be something ot do with HDMI auto-setup or of that ilk. Fiddle.0
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If you've got an optical output form of speakers use that by an optical lead, thatd sort it but Id imagine you dont or you wouldnt be plugging it into your telly.0
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my xbox is currently in brussels after a short visit to frunkfurt to have its red lights turned green again.
Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells.0 -
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Tartanyak wrote:Did you try tip-exing the light and colouring it in with a felt tip pen?
nah. just went on t'web and reported the error to MS...they sent UPS round to pick it up last week...i got the email yesterday saying it (well...a console) was now en-route back to me.Whenever I see an adult on a bicycle, I believe in the future of the human race.
H.G. Wells.0 -
Man in pub tells me this red cross of death is a thing of the past with the new "slim" ones.
I suspect I must have just done something retarded, because I've changed no settings at all, and yet it works fine now.
I'm very much an analogue man living in a digital world. 0 -
Get rid of the Xbox and ps3.
Get a scalextric instead.
More fun!0
