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    Watching movies on TV from M1530 - distrubing "lines" passes through the screen

    Discussion in 'Dell' started by lindstroem, Feb 1, 2008.

  1. lindstroem

    lindstroem Notebook Consultant

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    When I connect my M1530 to a SONY KDL32S2020 (32" flatscreen TV) with a VGA-cable and watch movies, disturbing lines appears every two minutes and passes through the screen from the top to the bottom of the screen.

    I have Nvidia Go 8600M GT 256MB DDR3 andu use Nvidia Forceware 169.28.

    Does anyone else recognize this and what can be done to prevent it?
     
    lindstroem, Feb 1, 2008
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    nizzy1115 Notebook Prophet

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    What type of movies are you playing? DVD or Blueray or encoded ones?
     
    nizzy1115, Feb 1, 2008
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  3. lindstroem

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    DVD and encoded.. same result... I tried using a cloned screen instead of a enlarged desktop and the disturbing lines ceased to show itself.. Weird..
     
    lindstroem, Feb 1, 2008
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    try dual monitor setup, aka dualview.
     
    vengance_01, Feb 2, 2008
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    Its when I use dualview that the problem occurs...
     
    lindstroem, Feb 2, 2008
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    Could be overloading.
     
    kanehi, Feb 2, 2008
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    Overloading?
    If you refer to the performance of the computer I don't think that is the issue. Playing a 700mb divx-file is not really a problem for a computer which is able to play 1080p HD movies =) Have also tried DVD with the same results..
     
    lindstroem, Feb 2, 2008
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