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    Acer Aspire 7520 TV out PAL help needed.

    Discussion in 'Acer' started by AndrejaKo, Apr 2, 2010.

  1. AndrejaKo

    AndrejaKo Notebook Consultant

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    Hi!
    I have a 7520 running Vi$ta 32bit. It uses nVidia 7000m integrated graphics card. I'm trying to connect it to a TV. The TV has two SCART connectors and composite connector. The laptop has S-Video connector. I'm using S-video cable to connect the laptop to a S-Video/Composite Video to SCART adapter. The adapter is connected to the TV.

    Now the problem is that the laptop sees the TV as an NTSC TV, but my TV uses PAL. So I went to the nVidia control panel and selected Yugoslavia PAL as my region. Even with that option, the laptop keeps sending NTSC signal to my TV.

    I'm using 179.48 drivers, as they appear to be the latest for my laptop.

    The adapter and cable and TV are working correctly. I've tested them with other equipment.


    Now for my question: Is there any way to force the laptop to send PAL signal to the TV?

    I was thinking about installing drivers from http://www.laptopvideo2go.com/. Would they work OK with this GPU? I considering that option because I think that my 7720G with GeForce 9500m GS worked fine with same setup. EDIT: Looks like I remembered incorrectly. It doesn't. Looks like a driver issue which nVidia refuses to fix to me. There are posts on nVidia's forum from 2006 mentioning same problem. :(
     
  2. AndrejaKo

    AndrejaKo Notebook Consultant

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    Well, I waited a few days, so BUMP.

    Any ideas? Does anyone have a working PAL TV with nVidia?