HT201177 Mac Mini and Asus VE258Q Issues

Just purchased a Mac Mini. When I hook it up to an Asus VE258Q monitor via HDMI, it looks great until it randomly goes dark for a few seconds, then comes back on (normal). This happens randomly, could be every 30 seconds, a minute, no pattern.
Any ideas?

I've seen similar results with bad cables or incompatible connections. HDMI is a somewhat complex connection with the copy protection and such, so it's possible that you just have an incompatible (or barely compatible) pair of devices. I'd first just try another cable to rule the cable out. If you still have problems, next step is to try a different connection type. I use a DisplayPort to DVI cable to my HP 24" LCD which works great. It looks like your LCD is newer and has a native DisplayPort connection, so you might be able to use a DisplayPort to Mini DisplayPort cable, which is slightly simpler from a signal connection perspective (as far as I understand it). Good luck!

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