William Leggett

I have an Xbox 360 and have had it for a couple of years and never have had a problem at all. I was slightly worried I might have an early Xbox and suffer from the red ring of death but as it turns out I have the Jasper model and as such am free of the worry.

I recently purchased an Onkyo TX SR507 AV set with all the surround sound speakers. I was pretty stoked and couldn’t wait to get this all setup and running, also I wanted to see how my Xbox would sound with all my new gadge. So I connected the Xbox to the Onkyo using the HDMI cable I got with it. I then connected the Onkyo to the TV via the TV out port using a 3m HDMI cable. My TV is up on the wall and all my gadgets and consoles are on a unit next to the TV.

Well when I powered on the gear I got no display or sound whatsoever on the TV, just a message saying “no signal” this caused me some concern. So I tried different cables from the Xbox to AV set. No difference, I was beginning to get a little frustrated so I thought “ I know, maybe I screwed up a setting on my AV when I’ve been setting it up” so I did a system reset and set it up all up from scratch again……

This also did not solve my problem. So this time I plugged the Xbox directly into the TV using the long lead that was in the TV out on the AV set. Well, what happened was that I was presented with a flickering display, red dots and red lines all over the screen. At first I thought I may have the start of the E75 error and believed my Xbox to be on its way out. But then I thought, maybe it’s the HDMI cable, maybe it’s not what I thought I had bought and that it isn’t 1080P compatible. So I navigated my way to the system settings and then display settings and changed to 1080i. Well what do you know, it cleared it up a treat. Crystal clear display. So after all that faffing it was the lead to the TV. At least that’s not as expensive to replace if I want to get 1080P back in play.

I hope this helps anyone else that has a similar issue to me.