No signal after power outage

Thanks for getting back to us with the fix. Some people don't.

 

You are the second person I have read to report a faulty HDMI cable after a power outage, someone with a DISH receiver found the same.

 

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Strange that the cable is the part that went bad from a simple power outage - I would have expected either of the HDMI ports to go bad, but not a simple wire. Good to know.

Just out of curiosity, did you try and go back to the bad cable after you got it working with a different one, just to confirm that the cable was indeed bad?

It is actually fairly common for a plug to develop invisible surface corrosion on a contact that can interrupt a clean signal, so there is a slight possibility that just removing the old cable and then reattaching it could have fixed it also. (Back when I was working avionics, we could sometimes fix a unit by just "re-seating" it, but the pilots absolutely hated it when we wrote that up as the fix; they wanted to see something more tangible.)