Hdmi port on 3070 not working after driver update

[Epiclol86]

Hi! I have a rtx 3070 that has two hdmi ports and 2 displayports and a dual monitor setup that uses two hdmi cables because my monitors are kinda cheap and don't have displayport. It used to work fine until about 6 months ago, when i updated my graphics driver my second monitor stopped being detected. I switched the cables around the hdmi ports on the card and now my primary display wasn't detected, leading me to believe that the new driver disabled that port. I reverted drivers back to my old driver and the port was back to working perfectly. Now i have been trying for months every new driver and every time it disables the port and i have to revert back to the old driver. I'm getting tired of it. What can i do to fix my problem?

[irishbeast]

I don't know the answer, seems very strange. May have a plan b

 

I somehow manage to physically damage my 3070 HDMI port and similar situation to yourself with dual monitors

 

Although its a pain you can buy signal converter cables from amazon. One thing to weary off if you buy say a DP to HDMI cable it won't work the other way round. There are adaptors for that sort of thing that do bi-directonal but the cost is crazy. Think I picked cable up less less than a tenner.

 

Hopefully future updates will stop this from happening. Must be very annoying. All official drivers I presume? No betas or anything like that?

[Frizz]

55 minutes ago, Epiclol86 said:

Hi! I have a rtx 3070 that has two hdmi ports and 2 displayports and a dual monitor setup that uses two hdmi cables because my monitors are kinda cheap and don't have displayport. It used to work fine until about 6 months ago, when i updated my graphics driver my second monitor stopped being detected. I switched the cables around the hdmi ports on the card and now my primary display wasn't detected, leading me to believe that the new driver disabled that port. I reverted drivers back to my old driver and the port was back to working perfectly. Now i have been trying for months every new driver and every time it disables the port and i have to revert back to the old driver. I'm getting tired of it. What can i do to fix my problem?

Try running DDU in safe mode. It deletes all old drivers that may be conflicting: https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

[Epiclol86]

1 hour ago, Frizz said:

Try running DDU in safe mode. It deletes all old drivers that may be conflicting: https://www.guru3d.com/files-details/display-driver-uninstaller-download.html

I have tried clearing all old drivers and it doesn't seem to help sadly...

[Epiclol86]

I have gone and bought a displayport to hdmi cable and it's a workaround, it doesn't solve the hdmi port issue but at least it allows me to use my second monitor! thanks for your help!

[irishbeast]

Glad it worked for you! Not sure how my HDMI got damaged but I was left with 3xDP port and I use 3 displays at work (Not a competition!) but only one has a HDMI, so my hand was forced. Don't lose any resolution either which is a double bonus