Xbox 360 Restarts with HDMI


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I have 360 connected to TV with HDMI, Let say I'm watching cable and I turn my 360 on without changing channel to HDMI. The 360 starts but when I change the channel to HDMI the 360 restarts itself.

This also happens when I am playing a game and turn my TV off to go to take a dump and when I come back and turn on my TV 360 restarts, losing all progress in the game.

I haven't noticed it but I think it started recently. I can't tell you exactly when it started, but It might be after NXE (again maybe, maybe not).

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Sounds like a hand-shake issue? The 360 restarts every time a 'new' input/output source is detected, so perhaps it's an issue with your TV not keeping the synchronisation with the 360 and thus sends a new hand-shake request every time, making the 360 restart?

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^ that forum help me understand, I have vga cable attached too to get optical (which I wanted to avoid buying). Now I'm wondering if I can cut off the wires for the video on vga cable so 360 doesn't detect it.

I guess I have to look around to get the diagram for the VGA cable.

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Damn, well I took an advice from one of the links and decided I need to do some chop action. I unplugged and cut all the wires except the last 3 small ones which has a connector to the small circuit board where the optical socket is. Then I put everything back together and viola it's not doing the restart anymore.

I thinks that's the only thing MS as an Optical dongle BTW if someone is planning on doing this be very careful which wire you cut. Cause I just wanted to use optical only but if you want to use L & R stereo too there are few additional wires you don't want to cut.

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^ that forum help me understand, I have vga cable attached too to get optical (which I wanted to avoid buying). Now I'm wondering if I can cut off the wires for the video on vga cable so 360 doesn't detect it.

I guess I have to look around to get the diagram for the VGA cable.

That's your problem.

If you have both cables hooked up and change channel the 360 will reset itself.

Used to happen to me with my old crappy home cinema system before I bought a new sound system that supports audio over HDMI.

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As might see I already solved the problem, the main problem with the VGA or any 360 cable that has optical output has a small black wire loop. You have to cut the loop in order to stop 360's restart problem.

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