I asked this question on the Gaming Stack Exchange site, but it was suggested that I may be better off asking here. Since noone moved the question, I'm posting it here too in the hopes that someone can help me out!
I use an ASUS PC monitor (unfortunately I can't remember the model type etc, however it is a LCD monitor with HDMI, DVI and VGA ports, as well as a speaker), and bought a Wii/PS3 Cable in the hopes that I can play the Wii on my monitor - much like I do with my PS3 and 360, for the convenience of having evefrything hooked up to the single screen.
It works fine, with the exception that while I am playing the Wii on the monitor, it occasionally blacks out temporarily. Its as if the monitor goes to sleep briefly while I'm playing my game!
It does not seem to be affected by whether I'm in a cutscene or in game, watching FMVs or running through menus. In fact, it seems utterly disconnected from gameplay at all!
It also is inconsistent with how long between blackouts. The shortest I experienced was about a minute and a half, the longest was a bit over 5 minutes, between blackouts.
When it blacks out, the screen completely turns black for a few seconds, as if I was switching input channels, then the screen returns to showing me my game. Quite frustrating!
I watched the light on the power button as it blacked out, and there was no change - it was signalling that the monitor was still turned on.
I thought it may have been the VGA gender changer dongle thing that came with the cable, so I swapped that out for a longer VGA male to male adapter cable. It seems to have slowed down, but is still causing issues.
If anybody has any ideas, they would be much appreciated!
Thanks all! Edit: more details -
It only happens with the Wii - I don't have any other devices on the same port. My PS3 and Xbox connect via HDMI, using a different port and cable type entirely. While the cable the Wii is connected to does support the PS3, I do not use it for it.
When I test, I still have my PS3 and PC connected to the monitor via the HDMI and DVI ports. The PS3 is off, the PC has been on and off when I tested, and seems to have no effect either way. I haven't found any option on the monitor for auto detect or anything, I manually set it to the VGA channel when I want to play the Wii.
I won't have access to try more than a few minutes until Sunday evening, unfortunately. However, come Sunday evening, I will have access to another monitor to test it on.
EDIT: Sorry for the slowness in editing updating, but I didn't have access to my monitors to test for a few days.
I tested it on a Samsung 22'' monitor, and had the same difficulty. This leads me to believe that its probably the cable I bought... which means that unless I can get it sorted soon I'll just give up on the Wii for now >.>
If anyone has any better ideas, I'd love to hear it!
EDIT: Using a Mac Mini on the same port does not yield the same problem. This is really weird...
