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    Studio XPS 13 and HDMI problem

    Discussion in 'Dell XPS and Studio XPS' started by g00ner, Jul 3, 2009.

  1. g00ner

    g00ner Notebook Guru

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    My SXPS13 is running Vista 64 with all the latest BIOS and drivers from the Dell website. nVidia driver version 7.15.11.7982.

    I plugged my LCD 37" telly in my laptop via HDMI. At first everything was ok and l was getting an image on the laptop screen as well as the TV. I was then abled to switch modes so l just had an image on the TV. The screen was a bit overstretched so l was loosing the top, bottom, left and right of the image.

    I went into the nVidia control panel and found a utilitily where l could re-size the LCD TV image. All seemed fine until l clicked apply. The screen went blank and it appeared the laptop had frozen as l was unable to get the CAPS LOCK key to come on.

    I have rebooted the laptop several times now, but whenever l plug the LCD TV back in l just get a blank screen.

    Any suggestions?
     
    g00ner, Jul 3, 2009
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  2. Eambo

    Eambo Notebook Evangelist

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    My main suggestion would be to update your drivers. You're running version 179.82 - Nvidia drivers are up around the 182 region now. Personally, I found 185.85 to be the most stable drivers, I've never had any compatibility issues. I've had a few issues with some games with the 182.xx series, so personally I'd say try 185.85 - it has very good support for multimonitor.
     
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  3. g00ner

    g00ner Notebook Guru

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    Yep, l did update the drivers from the Alienware M17x, which has give me 8.15.11.8612.

    HDMI is working perfectly now.
     
    g00ner, Jul 4, 2009
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