TV as Computer Monitor - Comments Page 5

I just bought a new LG HDTV and am trying to connect my PC to it. It has a VGA input, and since its in the next room, I have 20' of RGB running from my PC to the TV. My problem is this: the end of my RGB cable is male and the connection on my PC is male, so I bought a Y-splitter in order to connect it. Now its plugged in, but I get no signal. Is the splitter causing a problem? Or do I need to change settings on my PC? I'm fairly new at this, and I don't know what to do!

I have a Compaq Presario 5423US (5000 Series). I have in the past cloned the monitor to a Sony Trinotron Tv and it worked perfectly. I just bought a Vizio GV52L High Def LCD 1080p TV. I cloned it and it works but it looks grainy (not clear). Any ideas on how I can make the picture better??

EDITOR'S NOTE: Have you checked your display settings? Use the highest resolution your video card supports.

I have got a Samsung 40" hd tv and want to watch pcfootie.com on it but i have a Toshiba Equium laptop which is quite old so i think the only way i can connect is with the vga lead, when i try to set it up on the tv andgo to pc mode the tv swithes off, what can i do?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Sounds like either the laptop's video card doesn't support this use, or the TV is defective.

I had a MAC 6400, and one earlier Mac that had a cable TV plug, and it worked fine. Some idiot at Apple decided to screw the customer, and quit making it. Do you have a device I can use with my iMAC in exactly the way that the 6400 worked?

EDITOR'S NOTE: Do you mean a coax port? I looked at the Apple store and they don't seem to sell them. You'll probably have to use another video-out option.

I have an Acer Aspire laptop and a new technika lcd tv. I have managed to get a perfect picture via vga cables, but no sound. For sound I am using a cable from the headphone jack on the laptop to the red and white input on the TV. I have tried the obvious, turning the volumes on laptop and TV up to maximum, but nothing. Any ideas? I can get sound through external speakers, but would like to be able to control by remote control!

I have 4 old TV"s that only have coaxial cable connections. What I want to do is somehow hook my laptop up to all 4 TV's and have whatever is displayed on my laptop (video footage for example) showing up on all 4 tv's is there anyway of doing this? The screens are to be used as a backdrop in a stage show if I can work out how to do it.

EDITOR'S NOTE: If you can figure out how to get the signal to ONE television, then I'm sure Radio Shack must sell some sort of splitter to make it go to multiple screens.

I have an HDTV and an ATI Radeon 9700 Pro with VGA, DVI, and Svideo outputs. I've gotten the S-video Out to work, but since I have HDMI ports on the TV, I was wondering if there is anything special that I need to know before buying an DVI to HDMI cable? I realize that since I'm using Ubuntu I'll probably have to edit the xorg.conf file (though I'll have to look up how to on the net). Particularly I was wondering if I have to worry about making sure I get the right DVI to HDMI cable. Do I need a male DVI plug to a Female HDMI plug? Or a female DVI plug to a male HDMI plug or what? Its hard to comparison shop when you're not exactly sure what type of plug or adapter you need.

EDITOR'S NOTE: The cable you need should depend on the type of DVI and HDMI connectors you have on your computer and your TV, right?

I just bought a used Sony Bravia S series 40 inch LCD tv to use as a monitor. The previous owners don't have the manuals so I can't refer to them. The problem is that it works with my pc but everything is stretched horizontally and is kinda squashed. The tv is also giving me the message, "Unsupported signal. Adjust your PC output." I don't know how to do this. I suspect the fix is easy but I'm a little over my head here. Can anyone help? Thanks, Scott

EDITOR'S NOTE: You can adjust your video properties by going to Control Panel, Display, Settings. Just remember, an HD 1080 television displays 1920x1080 pixels.
So if you tell your video card to send it a different signal such as 1280x1024, 1400x1050, or 1680x1050, it will have to scale the image to fit the screen, and it might not look so great.

I have been using my Dell Inspirion 6000 to connect to TV and watch few online movies!! This was working great for last 2 years!! Last couple of days I am getting scrambled picture on my TV, when I checked display settings it showing that it is detecting my TV as HDTV ( though my TV is not a HDTV) and choosing video standard as HDMIxxxx, and I don't see Video standard as NTSC in that list. When I discconect my TV and reboot my laptop then it displays NTSC in video standard list but again switches back to HDMI when I connect my TV. I re-insatlled BIOS, Drivers ...but in vain!!! My video card is Mobile Intel® 945GM Express Chipset. Any suggestions will be of great help.

EDITOR'S NOTE: If you can't figure out what changed, try a system restore. See http://askbobrankin.com/system_restore.html

You quoted "If you can't figure out what changed, try a system restore. See http://askbobrankin.com/system_restore.html"

I tried restore and I even re-installed my OS, still problem persists. any other solution you recommend? Do you see this as BIOS/VBIOS problem? I even updated BIOS from Dell website.

EDITOR'S NOTE: Ok, it was working at some point, and now it's not. You seem to have ruled out software, so I'd suspect that either the video card, or the video driver are at fault.