I have a 2013 macbook pro retina 13' , just upgraded to OSX . when i try to connect it through HDMI cable to the TV the macbook's screen flickers and Nothing appears on the TV. what can i do to regarding this?
MacBook Pro with Retina display, OS X Mavericks (10.9)
Hi Rajeevhipe,
If you are having an issue connecting a display to your MacBook Pro via HDMI, you may find the following article helpful:
Apple computers: Troubleshooting issues with video on internal or external displays
http://support.apple.com/kb/ht1573
Regards,
- Brenden
None of the items in that troubleshooting link matches my issue.
15 inch macbook pro retina.
I plug the HDMI in. The display flickers like it would when it finds a new display; then it shows the display options for the new display, but less than a second later, it flickers back to the original display. A few seconds later, it tries to get the new display again, with the same results. This repeats until I unplug the HDMI cable.
I am having exactly the same problem, none of the trouble shoots is working? What do we do?
Yep. I've had the very same problem. Very embarrassing when you're being paid to do a presentation and your brand new, top of the line retina macbook has a temper tantrum.
This happened to me at 3 different venues with three different HDMI external monitor/projector set ups.
To fix this each time, I restarted the mac with the HDMI inserted. I quickly got to the system preferences>displays window... Turned off mirroring; and reset the resolution of the mac monitor back to full res... and the external monitor down to a lower res and refresh rate.
The mac seemed to need a minute to think about it before it came good.
Perhaps something about the HDMI "confuses" the mac as to what monitor is what.
This has never happened to me using VGA.
It could be the whole HDCP encryption "handshake" thing? I'm not sure.
As well as this, I also got occasional random dropouts to "digital snow". One even caused the macbook to crash and freeze... Requiring a full restart.
On another occasion I was using a supplied Mini display port to HDMI adapter... and was getting dropouts with that.
The VGA via mini display port is stable and runs all day long... The HDMI output now officially frightens me.
A lot more venues are starting to use it.
Shocked that this remains unresolved. Suddenly am afflicted by this issue after having no problems. Tried all the resets and still nothing. hdmi cable and tv working fine with windows laptops.
Macbook retina HDMI issue
