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    connecting Laptop to LCD / CRT TV

    Discussion in 'Hardware Components and Aftermarket Upgrades' started by mrspud, Feb 1, 2007.

  1. mrspud

    mrspud Newbie

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    I am trying to connect my Quanta Notebook running XP SP2 to a LCD or CRT widescreen TV using Svideo cable.

    I can get the normal XP screen on both TV's, but whenever I try to run a DVD or movie file, it shows the viewing window, but nothing in it. I switch back to the notebook screen, and the movie is displaying hust fine.

    The notebook have Nvidia 128Mb GeForce 7400.

    What am I doing wrong?
     
    mrspud, Feb 1, 2007
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  2. Gautam

    Gautam election 2008 NBR Reviewer

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    Hmm...odd. When connecting to an LCD TV, just use VGA. It's easier. Try that and see if things are better...although, you should be able to do what you are talking about via S-Video.
     
    Gautam, Feb 1, 2007
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  3. Budding

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    You have to enable hardware acceleration to the additional screen in your driver settings. I cannot provide step by step instruction for it on nVidia drivers though.
     
    Budding, Feb 1, 2007
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