+jgkspsx Posted January 23, 2022 Share Posted January 23, 2022 Okay, this is a special kind of crazy. I have six devices going into my TV through a low-lag HDMI switch, including the VCS. Today, the VCS decided it didn’t want to output sound. I tested each other device in the switch, all had no sound problems. Then I unplugged the HDMI out (that goes directly into the TV) from the switch and plugged it into the VCS. The VCS won’t even boot. If I swap it back into the switch and plug the switch in, it shows the Asteroids boot animation. One weird thing of note that may be relevant: when I booted it up I noticed I was missing some challenge completions in Black Widow. When I played a normal game and then went back to challenges, it reset me all the way to zero. Is the built in solid state storage failing or something? Has anybody seem anything like this? 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Atarick Posted January 24, 2022 Share Posted January 24, 2022 4 hours ago, jgkspsx said: Okay, this is a special kind of crazy. I have six devices going into my TV through a low-lag HDMI switch, including the VCS. Today, the VCS decided it didn’t want to output sound. I tested each other device in the switch, all had no sound problems. Then I unplugged the HDMI out (that goes directly into the TV) from the switch and plugged it into the VCS. The VCS won’t even boot. If I swap it back into the switch and plug the switch in, it shows the Asteroids boot animation. One weird thing of note that may be relevant: when I booted it up I noticed I was missing some challenge completions in Black Widow. When I played a normal game and then went back to challenges, it reset me all the way to zero. Is the built in solid state storage failing or something? Has anybody seem anything like this? Did you make any mods to the system? I wonder if something shorted somehow. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 24, 2022 Author Share Posted January 24, 2022 Not a one. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 25, 2022 Author Share Posted January 25, 2022 Uhhhhhh this doesn't seem good? (https://atari.gamecentergroup.com/index.php?/VCS/Tickets/Submit/Confirmation) EDIT: looks like they pushed a debugger version to prod. I had just failed to check the CAPTCHA box initially. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+sixersfan105 Posted January 25, 2022 Share Posted January 25, 2022 So after you get the Asteroids boot animation (with or without sound btw?) do you just get a black screen after that? 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 27, 2022 Author Share Posted January 27, 2022 Well, good news! I unplugged my TV and let it sit overnight. Plugged it back in this morning, and everything is back to working fine. I don’t know how HDMI works, but my suspicion is that the TV assigns a process to handling input from one particular device id. That process presumably crashed. Of course I have no idea what I’m talking about so it could have been furbies in the circuits too. I’ve never seen anything like it before. 3 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+neogeo1982 Posted January 28, 2022 Share Posted January 28, 2022 4 hours ago, jgkspsx said: unplugged my TV and let it sit overnight. Plugged it back in this morning, and everything is For some reason I keep picturing that ancient console TV you have 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
+jgkspsx Posted January 28, 2022 Author Share Posted January 28, 2022 No, that one never lets me down 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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