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    Please somebody help, i beg of you

    Discussion in 'HP' started by endymion, Sep 15, 2004.

  1. endymion

    endymion Newbie

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    I just recently purchased an pavilion zv5000 and it came with a media cable xc1000. I have been trying to hook my pc up to my tv and the s-video cable isn't streaming properly. The sound streams just fine but when i hit the fn+f4 key, the tv flashes my monitor on it but quickly returns to the blank state. I have tried HP tech support but they seem to know no more than the manual which is nothing. I thought i could find some useful help here. Please help me with this issue as it has me up against a wall and near ready to just give up and return my laptop and take an oath never to call hp tech support again. Please can anybody offer a fix or suggestions? thanks in advance
     
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  2. Venombite

    Venombite Notebook Virtuoso

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    As I responded to you post in a different thread, you may want to try lowering your resolution first. I had this same issue on my Toshiba notebooks. I think TV's can only utilize a max resolution of 800x600 at 60Hz. Anything higher and all you get is a black screen w/audio.

    -Vb-
     
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  3. Col. Stevo

    Col. Stevo Notebook Consultant

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    Thnx Venombite,

    I had a similar situation with someone's system hooked up to a TV and we were mind-boggled at to what the challenge was, since everything worked perfectly when it wasn't hooked up to the TV.


    Cheers,

    Stevo

    zv5000z: Ath64_3200+ (2.0GHz) - 1GB DDR - 80GB 5400rpm - 64MB 440 - 15.0" XGA - Win2k (tentatively)
     
    Col. Stevo, Sep 15, 2004
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