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Display port cabling issues.

Hey guys, I would really appreciate some help, or insight on this issue. Even if this setup does not work, I just want to know why at this point for my sanity lol. I will describe the reason I have this setup in the next paragraph, but you can skip down if you don't care why I have this wacky setup. If there is a better place to post this please let me know.



I have a small hole in the wall and cannot make it bigger for a larger connector. I want to connect my PC on one side of the wall to my living room TV on the other side of the wall. A displayport/HDMI cable will not fit through the wall, but a mini display port will. I have tried other setups with usb-C (see old posts) but I was a dummy and did that wrong and don't care about that anymore. The way I just set it up seemed foolproof do me.

Here are the amazon links to the three components I purchased:

Display port male to mini display port male cable: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07NW9XKGL?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
This goes from my GPU Display port and through the wall next to the TV.

Mini display port female to female display port adapter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B09N98FJ15?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
This connects to the mini display port male next to my TV.

Display port male to HDMI female adapter: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07ZNNRYFL?psc=1&ref=ppx_yo2ov_dt_b_product_details
Connects to the female display port on the previous adapter

And then I hook up an HDMI cord from the DP-M to HDMI-F adapter to my TV.

This setup does not work. I have tested the DP-M to mDP-M cable with the mDP-F to DP-F adapter with a regular display port cable to my monitor, and those two together work. I have also tested the DP-M to HDMI-F adapter to my TV(using another computer), and to my monitor and that works as well. It only does not work when I use all three together and I cannot understand why. Does anyone know what I can do to fix it, or what the issue is? I am all ears to other solutions you might have as well to my core issue of the small hole in the wall, but I must know why this doesn't work I am crazy.
Thanks guys!

Note:
My assumption was that the only real "adapting" that was happening was the DP to HDMI. That is, going from mini display port to display port is simply a changing pinouts and connector size. I was sure to make sure that I got one that was the correct direction because I know that they are one-way. Yes I know I will be losing some refresh rate going to mini display port and whatnot, but I don't care about high refresh rates on a huge living room TV.

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A DisplayPort to HDMI adapter needs to be connected directly to the PC. It relies on 3.3 V power from the DisplayPort port. Normal DP to DP cables do not carry this power through the cable, it is only available from the port. So adapters will not work through an extension like that.

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2 hours ago, Glenwing said:

A DisplayPort to HDMI adapter needs to be connected directly to the PC. It relies on 3.3 V power from the DisplayPort port. Normal DP to DP cables do not carry this power through the cable, it is only available from the port. So adapters will not work through an extension like that.

Do you think something like a display port repeater will fix this issue so I don't have to get a whole new setup for it? After doing some reasearch I just found out about these and it seems like it could work.

Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D949F59/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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5 hours ago, 420WeedJesus said:

Do you think something like a display port repeater will fix this issue so I don't have to get a whole new setup for it? After doing some reasearch I just found out about these and it seems like it could work.

Something like this: https://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B07D949F59/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

That could probably work. Since it uses an external power supply, it shouldn't rely on the 3.3 V from the port.

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