No dice.

One thing to note, I AM working with a bunny-compromised cable (chewed through a small section of housing and shielding. It's not out of the realm of possibility that the new comp's graphic chip is more sensitive to noise during link establishment and the dodgy cablle just enough to create that noise. The only other HDMI cable I have is routed annoyingly. Grrr.

Ha! FINALLY the computing gods give me a break this week. It's 10:05. 5 minutes ago the new Woot.com deal posted...2x3ft HDMI cables, $3.99 ($5s/h)! (three feet is plenty for this use).

Nice.

Do a search for HDMI in this thread. It might help.

Hmm, after browsing that thread it could be an EDID issue*. I'll try the new HDMI cable when it comes in first. If it's still a problem I'll try the HDMION utility. If that solves it, I may still go ahead and put the other graphics card in anyway. HDMION will require a keyboard press every time we switch inputs to the computer. I'd rather not have to reach for the keyboard every time.



*Might also explain the weird line of pixels that occasionally appears at the top of the screen while viewing the PC and persists across TV inputs until the tv is turned off then on. Sigh, don't I deal with enough crap about poor standardization of handshaking protocols at work?!

Well, that thread Moonie posted seems to have lead me to the cause. And a semi-acceptable workaround. But only semi-acceptable. I could spend some time with some trial and error to get a more acceptable workaround...or I could just install the perfectly functional graphics adapter from the old system (which is a better adapter anyway). Probably going to be the latter.

I hope you apologized to bunny.

Hell no. My rabbit's a jerk. I love her, but she's a jerk.

Have you tried spraying things with pepper sauce in water?

I've got rabbits in my yard and wondered just how effective that was.

Rabbits aren't particularly deterred by bad tastes like that. Smells can be effective, like cheap perfume...but then our house would have to smell like cheap perfume. No thanks.

We've compensated by keeping the temptations out of their reach, I just got sloppy with the HDMI cable.

But even if she weren't chewing cables, Lito would still be a jerk.

FYI, I discovered that the semi-acceptable workaround doesn't work if the user is logged out. Was it supposed to be logged out this morning?