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    C90S HDMI out

    Discussion in 'Asus' started by JCMS, Dec 1, 2007.

  1. JCMS

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    What kind of HDMI cable I need for that?

    I just got an HD TV Receiver and bought a male-male HDMI cable for it but it does not fit in my notebook (the cable is too big). I haven't seen a female-male HDMI overther :confused:
     
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    Patrick Formerly beat spamers with stiks

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    Are you sure your not putting it in the esata port instead of the hdmi?
     
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    It's fitting now. I just had to force it a bit, like with the Svideo out.

    My HDTV gets detected by the notebook but no image on it (It does show PANASONIC PVT). I'll work on this later today once my dad will be out. It might just be the resolution.
     
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    My HDTV needs to have the screen enabled in the display properties menu. Try that.
     
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    On mine its just plug and play, for audio I had to enable the digital out in Realtek audio console.
     
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    Yeah I know about the audio, I had to mess up with it for my headphones.

    My TV is a CRT not a LCD/Plasma BTW.
     
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    You have a CRT TV with a HDMI connector? Is that possible? Isnt a CRT analog nad not a digital signal?
     
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    Nope, my old CRT had HDMI.
     
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    CRT HDTV supports 480i,480p and 1080i through HDMI and they are fully HDCP compatible, unlike first gen LCD :) They are not really like CRT computer screen or standard TVs. Mine's pretty big and the screen is a flat thick plastic window
     
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    CRT's are designed to run with a high refresh rate, using a digital interface will put you at 60hz thats the only negative thing I can think of using a CRT with HDMI.
     
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    In the "supported resolutions" of the TV's manual, they are all at 60hz. And my old computer screen was a 60hz too.

    Anyway, I retried the TV out and didn't get success.

    I first plugged it, the image appeared on the TV, it was 1680x1050 so I switched the Display 2 to 1920x1080. The laptop screen turned off. Then I logged off and since that, the TV don't want to show anything. The mouse pointer appears of a black screen for 2 seconds when I pug it and thats all, the laptop LCD also turns off right when I plug the HDMI cable.

    I also tried on XP, but for whatever reasons, the TV would always zoom the image to 640x480 (so the only thing that appears on the TV is a 640x480 centered square of a 1920x1080 resolution) whatever I do.

    Sound was also directly transfered to the TV under XP
     
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    What driver version are you using? Are you using a laptopvideo2go .inf file?
     
    swoley2k, Dec 2, 2007
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    Yes I'm suing 169.12

    I don't remember on the XP installation though
     
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    Send me a PM with your email and I will send you a different .inf file to use.
     
    swoley2k, Dec 2, 2007
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    Okay.

    When I plugged it this morning and it worked right now, I haven't tried to log off/restart though.

    And for the sound, I didn't have the realtek drivers installed (was using vista stock driver for this sound device) so the HD digital out wasn't available.
     
    JCMS, Dec 2, 2007
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