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    Graphics Cards

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by Zleach, Feb 21, 2008.

  1. Zleach

    Zleach Notebook Guru

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    Hi everyone

    I have a laptop with a Nvidia: Go 6150 graphic card.
    Now when I watch avi or mkv videos to my laptop to my 32" LCD HDTV
    using a VGA Cable it starts to flicker or become a little choppy when I put it
    to full screen on my LCD TV.

    So I wanted to know if it was my graphic card doing this.
    If it is then if a get a laptop with a 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS graphics
    will it still do this ?

    (PS: I'm not looking to play games just looking for a good graphic card)
     
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  2. Budding

    Budding Notebook Virtuoso

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    You probably haven't enabled graphical hardware acceleration for your VGA port on your graphics settings. I am uncertain of which buttons to click to enable it in the nVidia nView properties panel however.

    You might also want to try extending to your external panel as opposed to cloning.
     
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  3. Zleach

    Zleach Notebook Guru

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    graphical hardware acceleration ? never heard of that

    so if I enable that then it will stop the flicker or the choppyness that I see

    oh and I have a HP Pavilion dv 6 series
     
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  4. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    Non-shield VGA cables are notorious for having poor signal, if you are using one of those cables that are as thick as a coaxial TV cable, then you have one of those. They are the cheapest and come with LCD monitors nowadays.

    Shielded ones are much thicker and stiffer and you won't experience quality loss.
     
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  5. Zleach

    Zleach Notebook Guru

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    damn if thats the case then is the Cables To Go VGA CABLES are good
    or just got a better laptop with 256MB NVIDIA GeForce 8400M GS graphics
     
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  6. Zleach

    Zleach Notebook Guru

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    oh and I for get to mention that it does it on my laptop too.

    So it not just the tv.
     
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    That rules out the cable as primary cause then. I like Buddings advice even more now because even an IGP should play a DVD on the notebook without a problem.
     
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  8. Zleach

    Zleach Notebook Guru

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    See the thing is that I use Media Player classic and Videolan and it shows
    flickers and choppy ness when view at full screen in my laptop plus the LCD TV
    too.
     
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    Have you enabled graphical hardware acceleration or confirmed it is already enabled. I mean it might not be the problem but if it is and you don't check it will never get resolved and much less expensive than buying new notebook.
     
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  10. Zleach

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    How do I enabled graphical hardware acceleration on a HP Pavilion dv 6 series
    using vista 32 bit ?
     
    Zleach, Feb 21, 2008
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    After googling around a bit, I think I might have found the solution.

    Update to the latest graphics drivers, and plug in your external monitor. Then go to nVidia Control Panel (right click on desktop and select nVidia Control Panel) and click on Video & Television from the left menu. Enable Full Screen Mirroring, and you should now be able to play videos on your external in full screen without errors.
     
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  12. Zleach

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    Thanks for the info and hope it works
     
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  13. D3X

    D3X the robo know it all

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    Just incase you need a download link, goto www.laptopvideo2go.com for the latest Nvidia drivers. Make sure you download the modded inf and overwrite the one that get extracted from the compressed file.

    I recommend 169.04 as it's pretty well-known of it's stability and performance.
     
    D3X, Feb 21, 2008
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