Inspirion 5521 HDMI stopped working

I was using the port to connect to my HDTV.  It was working fine yesterday and when I went to connect today it never connects.  I tried another HD monitor which I know is working through that port so it is not the monitor or TV.  I tried a different shorter cable as well so I suspect it is the laptop that has an issue.  Of course the warranty ran out a couple of weeks ago.  :emotion-6:  I was using WIDI for awhile to the Push2TV but it was extremely flaky and would only connect 1 out of 10 times.  Now I have no connection.  I was wondering if there was a disable for the hdmi port.  Regardless I am flogging the dead horse at this point.

Kirk