I get this pretty much every time I boot in now. Oculus software says connected, but orange light still shows. Win10 64bit, MSI 1070, AMD FX 8350, GigaBtye GA-78LMT-USB3, HDMI for Rift, DVI for TV.
I was running Windows 7, so moved onto Win 10 to address this issue, however the issue persists. Occasionally when I run up Oculus I get the white light and all works, but mostly I have to unplug and plug in the HDMI cable, which is clearly no good for the port or Rift. Recently I'm just rebooting and trying again, or powering off and turning back on and repeating until I get the headset to activate.
Once I get the white light it's all good, never drops, never goes wrong etc. Project Cars and DCS are so awesome through the Rift!
Googling and searching here I feel like I'm the only person with a CV1 who gets this issue! I did wonder if it is a recent Nvidia drivers update. Anybody got any solutions? I was tempted to buy a HDMI switcher or a couple of short cables so I am not damaging the equipment I care about, however I do not want to add latency.
(I don't think that this is related however I am running USB2 not USB3 as my ports on 3 are not compatible with the sensor. Although the headset will run through USB3 for me it is actually better for me through 2, maybe the USB3 is erroring a lot and causing slow down. I can't fit any other cards to my motherboard as it's mini and has two pci-e slots, both are covered by the gpu.)
Same thing here, except even unplugging and replugging wont kickstart it. I have to boot with my monitor unplugged, launch the rift by covering the headset sensor, then I can plug my monitor back in. This started with the latest windows 10 update a couple weeks ago
So, since I posted the Rift has been fine, until last night when again it was stuck with the yellow light. Rebooting the Oculus via the Beta->Restart did nothing to resolve it, neither did re-starting to PC. Only thing that permitted the Rift to work was to shut down pc and then turn back on again.
Before 1.9 update everything worked just fine, with 1.9 after a reboot it says it can't detect the sensor. Reconnecting the sensor USB fixes that. Annoying. Using Win10 and MSI X99S SLI Plus motherboard. Latest drivers and BIOS.
I'm having the same issue--have to unplug and replug the HDMI cable every time I boot my computer just to get the headset to turn on. Did you ever figure out a better solution? Oculus app version 1.16 on Win 10.
Edit: I also dual-boot Ubuntu on this machine. It seems like this problem occurs after spending some amount of time in Ubuntu and then returning to Windows. Is it possible that Ubuntu is doing something to cause this that would persist after a reboot?
Guess it's always possible that the boot loader isn't allowing something to boot with the USBs on start - then a rehook after the fact would fix it, but that would be a Linux issue and something way above my head xD
I don't think this is the problem, but possible.... doesn't explain everyone elses issue. Windows is always doing something silly - so it's hard to say.
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