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Post by Talley on Dec 5, 2016 19:48:11 GMT -5
I've had my XMC-1 for well over a year now and it's been rock solid. It's on FW 3.1 and ever since I got it setup it's been trucking along no problems. I know it has roughly 800 hours of use based on my projector lamp hours. Has been working without a hiccup and then BOOM.... all of a sudden I turn it on and the screen flickers in and out. This is with any HDMI inputs. My cheapy sony blueray, direct tv or apple TV.
at one point it said the hdmi cable was connected wrong or not compatible all while flickering. Now I see the apple TV won't play saying the HDMI connection doesn't support DHCP or the cable isn't plugged in properly. I swapped all my cords to spare cords that I know are working without luck.
So now I suppose out of no where I have an hdmi issue. The unit is within warranty but we have a family party on the 18th and doubt this would get corrected by then... this just completely sucks... royally.
I tried resetting all my equipment to factory defaults... I plugged the bluray directly into the projector and it works fine and everything unplugged from the xmc-1 but the output to the projector and the menu options works fine... but the minute you plug anything hdmi to any of the hdmi inputs it starts to flicker.
Any idea what to do here?
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Post by novisnick on Dec 5, 2016 20:11:26 GMT -5
I've had my XMC-1 for well over a year now and it's been rock solid. It's on FW 3.1 and ever since I got it setup it's been trucking along no problems. I know it has roughly 800 hours of use based on my projector lamp hours. Has been working without a hiccup and then BOOM.... all of a sudden I turn it on and the screen flickers in and out. This is with any HDMI inputs. My cheapy sony blueray, direct tv or apple TV. at one point it said the hdmi cable was connected wrong or not compatible all while flickering. Now I see the apple TV won't play saying the HDMI connection doesn't support DHCP or the cable isn't plugged in properly. I swapped all my cords to spare cords that I know are working without luck. So now I suppose out of no where I have an hdmi issue. The unit is within warranty but we have a family party on the 18th and doubt this would get corrected by then... this just completely sucks... royally. I tried resetting all my equipment to factory defaults... I plugged the bluray directly into the projector and it works fine and everything unplugged from the xmc-1 but the output to the projector and the menu options works fine... but the minute you plug anything hdmi to any of the hdmi inputs it starts to flicker. Any idea what to do here? Unfortunately I have to recommend a call in the morning to Emotiva and most likely sounds like a board problem. Something like this usually happens to me just before I host an EmoSouth meeting or a holiday gathering. Call in the morning. You did a reset of the XMC-1, correct? |
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Post by Talley on Dec 5, 2016 20:29:02 GMT -5
Ya I did a factory reset without fix. I can always overnight it but not sure if they could get it repaired and back soon enough.
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Post by novisnick on Dec 5, 2016 20:46:16 GMT -5
Ya I did a factory reset without fix. I can always overnight it but not sure if they could get it repaired and back soon enough. Can't hurt to ask,,,,plea your case as sweet as honey,,,sweet as Ms Cathy!! Sweet as Emotiva's Big Beautiful Dan!!! Are you getting my drift??  |
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Post by bootman on Dec 6, 2016 0:07:56 GMT -5
Anyway to isolate the display?
Easy to assume it's the hdmi switcher but hdmi is a chain so all components needs to be isolated and checked.
Also no other component in the chain had an update or change to it?
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Post by 405x5 on Dec 6, 2016 9:15:10 GMT -5
Why no 4.0??
Try that first
Bill
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Post by cwt on Dec 7, 2016 1:42:15 GMT -5
I plugged the bluray directly into the projector and it works fine and everything unplugged from the xmc-1 but the output to the projector and the menu options works fine... but the minute you plug anything hdmi to any of the hdmi inputs it starts to flicker. Any idea what to do here? Ide be pragmatic about it if its for a week or so [and/or Emo is snowed under with work] till you can ship to emo and feed your bd player direct and use sp/dif for everything [not sure if the apple tv is hdmi only ?] Dts 1.5mbps can sound pretty good  |
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Post by 405x5 on Dec 7, 2016 9:36:03 GMT -5
Anyway to isolate the display? Easy to assume it's the hdmi switcher but hdmi is a chain so all components needs to be isolated and checked. Also no other component in the chain had an update or change to it? I agree.....can you swap/bring in a test monitor....see if the problem is still there. Update the firmware also as said earlier. Bill |
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Post by millst on Dec 7, 2016 10:45:27 GMT -5
You swapped the HDMI cable between the projector and the XMC-1?
-tm
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Post by Talley on Dec 23, 2016 19:03:47 GMT -5
Everything was working fine and I checked all the cables. Just was flickering for some unknown reason. But I did just upgrade to FW 4.0 and now it's working again. whew.... that was good. I appreciate everyones assistance. I have no clue what happen but all is good. Back to watching Elf |
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Post by 405x5 on Dec 23, 2016 19:21:42 GMT -5
Everything was working fine and I checked all the cables. Just was flickering for some unknown reason. But I did just upgrade to FW 4.0 and now it's working again. whew.... that was good. I appreciate everyones assistance. I have no clue what happen but all is good. Back to watching Elf Ahhh! That's great news! Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 Bill |
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