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i just bought a new tv and on the back it has a pc video connection
(RGB input). When i statr up my computer the image comes up fine. Once
the computer has started up the monitor says that it has no signal.
Can anyone tell me how to resolve this problem?

Many thanks,

Mitch

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wrote:
i just bought a new tv and on the back it has a pc video connection
(RGB input). When i statr up my computer the image comes up fine. Once
the computer has started up the monitor says that it has no signal.
Can anyone tell me how to resolve this problem?

What resolution is the TV , and what resolution was the PC running at
before.
It's probably running in a resolution taht the TV doesn't support.

Assuming you are using some flavour of Windows , press F8 as it boots and
when given the choice , select safe mode.
You should boot into a lower resolution and get a picture.
From there , delete your graphics card in device manager and reboot
normally.
It will find the hardware and start up in a nice low resolution and you can
adjust it to match your TV.

Bear in mind that many flat panel TVs have very low resolutions compared to
computer monitors so it won't necessarily be a great picture


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Alex

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wrote in message
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i just bought a new tv and on the back it has a pc video connection
(RGB input). When i statr up my computer the image comes up fine. Once
the computer has started up the monitor says that it has no signal.
Can anyone tell me how to resolve this problem?

Many thanks,

Mitch



go into the display settings of your pc - make sure it's enabled for dual
display - unless your pc is ancient and doesnt support such a thing.


--
Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.
http://www.last.fm/user/dsbmusic/

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Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I had
the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!

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wrote:
Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I had
the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!

No probs.
It's something that's caught me out before :0)
--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.ebayfaq.co.uk

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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:46:24 +0100, "Dr Zoidberg"
wrote:

wrote:
Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I had
the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!

No probs.
It's something that's caught me out before :0)

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my PC
to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but it only
displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor carries on as
normal. The only other setting I can find just reverses that process,
when I want the same on both screens. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?

Marky P.

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Marky P wrote:

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my PC
to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but it only
displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor carries on as
normal. The only other setting I can find just reverses that process,
when I want the same on both screens. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?

Do you want both screens to show the same content, or do you want a
large virtual desktop spread across both screens?

(note the state of the checkboxes on the settings for the second screen)

--
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John.

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Marky P wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:46:24 +0100, "Dr Zoidberg"
wrote:

wrote:
Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I had
the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!

No probs.
It's something that's caught me out before :0)

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my PC
to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but it only
displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor carries on as
normal. The only other setting I can find just reverses that process,
when I want the same on both screens. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?

What graphics card , and what outputs does it have?



--
Alex

"I laugh in the face of danger. Then I hide until it goes away"

www.drzoidberg.co.uk www.ebayfaq.co.uk

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Marky P wrote (apparently) in uk.tech.digital-tv on Sun 19 Aug 2007
19:32:55:

On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:46:24 +0100, "Dr Zoidberg"
wrote:

wrote:
Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I
had the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!

No probs.
It's something that's caught me out before :0)

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my
PC to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but
it only displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor
carries on as normal. The only other setting I can find just
reverses that process, when I want the same on both screens. I'm
running Vista. Any ideas?

Marky P.

It's working fine for me on Vista Home Premium on my laptop and a
26" Philips at 1360 * 768 using PowerStrip. Assuming it's all
working right, you will get the wallpaper on the second screen but
all programs will still open on the original screen. If you have a
window that's not minimised, try dragging it across to the TV and
see if it works.

If it does, when you then reboot the computer without the TV
switched on next time all the programs will open on the monitor
again. If you want to move things like Internet Explorer across that
are maximised, you need to Restore them (double-click on the title
bar) before you can drag them across.
--
MrGuest
Always, seemingly, on the road to nowhere

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"Marky P" wrote in message
...
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:46:24 +0100, "Dr Zoidberg"
wrote:

wrote:
Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I had
the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!

No probs.
It's something that's caught me out before :0)

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my PC
to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but it only
displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor carries on as
normal. The only other setting I can find just reverses that process,
when I want the same on both screens. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?




you've probably chosen extended desktop - i.e you have 2 independent
monitors.
go back into your settings and turn that off - although i must admit i
prefer it that way - i can always drag a playing video onto the tv from the
pc monitor.



--
Gareth.

That fly... is your magic wand.
http://www.last.fm/user/dsbmusic/

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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:41:19 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

Marky P wrote:

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my PC
to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but it only
displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor carries on as
normal. The only other setting I can find just reverses that process,
when I want the same on both screens. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?

Do you want both screens to show the same content, or do you want a
large virtual desktop spread across both screens?

(note the state of the checkboxes on the settings for the second screen)

I want both screens to show the same content.

Marky P.

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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:59:08 +0100, "Dr Zoidberg"
wrote:

Marky P wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:46:24 +0100, "Dr Zoidberg"
wrote:

wrote:
Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I had
the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!

No probs.
It's something that's caught me out before :0)

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my PC
to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but it only
displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor carries on as
normal. The only other setting I can find just reverses that process,
when I want the same on both screens. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?

What graphics card , and what outputs does it have?

Its a ATI Radeon HD 2400 XT. It has VGA, DVI & S-Video outputs. I'm
using the DVI output.

Marky P.

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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 20:22:02 +0100, "the dog from that film you saw"
wrote:


"Marky P" wrote in message
.. .
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 18:46:24 +0100, "Dr Zoidberg"
wrote:

wrote:
Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I had
the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!

No probs.
It's something that's caught me out before :0)

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my PC
to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but it only
displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor carries on as
normal. The only other setting I can find just reverses that process,
when I want the same on both screens. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?




you've probably chosen extended desktop - i.e you have 2 independent
monitors.
go back into your settings and turn that off - although i must admit i
prefer it that way - i can always drag a playing video onto the tv from the
pc monitor.

I'll give it a go when I get the chance. BTW, would it be possible to
use a VGA Y-adapter to split the signal between monitor and telly? TV
does have a VGA input.

Marky P.

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Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I had
the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!


What's your comments on the quality of the picture? I am wanting to replace
my existing 19" monitor with a 26" TV but I have heard so many reports about
the picture being rubbish.

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Marky P wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:41:19 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

Marky P wrote:

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my PC
to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but it only
displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor carries on as
normal. The only other setting I can find just reverses that process,
when I want the same on both screens. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?
Do you want both screens to show the same content, or do you want a
large virtual desktop spread across both screens?

(note the state of the checkboxes on the settings for the second screen)

I want both screens to show the same content.

Marky P.

If it's an nvidia card then there should be an option under dual screens
for clone.

Glenn

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On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 21:26:36 +0100, "Jane T" wrote:


wrote in message
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Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I had
the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!


What's your comments on the quality of the picture? I am wanting to replace
my existing 19" monitor with a 26" TV but I have heard so many reports about
the picture being rubbish.


I used to run my PC into my 42" plasma as my main monitor using the
VGA input and the quality was pretty good. Now I use a separate
monitor so I can watch TV & use the PC :-)

Marky P.

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Marky P wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:41:19 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

Marky P wrote:

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my PC
to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but it only
displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor carries on as
normal. The only other setting I can find just reverses that process,
when I want the same on both screens. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?
Do you want both screens to show the same content, or do you want a
large virtual desktop spread across both screens?

(note the state of the checkboxes on the settings for the second screen)

I want both screens to show the same content.

Might be difficult if you have different resolutions on each screen though.

--
Cheers,

John.

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Marky P wrote:

I'll give it a go when I get the chance. BTW, would it be possible to
use a VGA Y-adapter to split the signal between monitor and telly? TV
does have a VGA input.

It would - assuming you can find a video mode that both monitor and TV
are happy with.

You would really need a properly buffered splitter though like:

http://www.cypuk.com/pdf/cpcd3a.pdf


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Cheers,

John.

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Jane T wrote:
wrote in message
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Dr Zoidberg,

That has fixed my problem, my tv only supports 1024 x 768 and I had
the PC running on 1280 x 1024. Thanks very much!


What's your comments on the quality of the picture? I am wanting to replace
my existing 19" monitor with a 26" TV but I have heard so many reports about
the picture being rubbish.

Generally the results can be "variable" - much depends on what scaling
the TV has to do to get the PC image on screen, and also what control it
gives you over fine tuning it. The best results I ever saw were with
some of these:

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/...ternodeltdcomp

We used them in a window display for a client, and I was amazed at the
quality of the PC display. You could tweak just about every parameter,
and the image was certainly as good as some low end LCD monitors - text
was quite readable etc and no obvious visible scaling artefacts. The
results were good with either 1280x768 or 1366x768 output from the PC
even though only the latter was a precise match for the actual panel
resolution.

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Cheers,

John.

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On Mon, 20 Aug 2007 04:55:05 +0100, John Rumm
mused:

Marky P wrote:
On Sun, 19 Aug 2007 19:41:19 +0100, John Rumm
wrote:

Marky P wrote:

Actually, may I barge in here with a problem I have? I wanted my PC
to run on my monitor & my TV. I set it for dual screens, but it only
displays the wallpaper on the telly whilst the monitor carries on as
normal. The only other setting I can find just reverses that process,
when I want the same on both screens. I'm running Vista. Any ideas?
Do you want both screens to show the same content, or do you want a
large virtual desktop spread across both screens?

(note the state of the checkboxes on the settings for the second screen)

I want both screens to show the same content.

Might be difficult if you have different resolutions on each screen though.

Failry certain I've got an IBM Lenovo with an ATI card running dual
monitors on the DVI port with different resolutions at home.

Something to check later.
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Regards,
Stuart.

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Lurch wrote:

(note the state of the checkboxes on the settings for the second screen)
I want both screens to show the same content.
Might be difficult if you have different resolutions on each screen though.

Failry certain I've got an IBM Lenovo with an ATI card running dual
monitors on the DVI port with different resolutions at home.

Something to check later.

Its easy to have them at different resolutions if you want them to
display independent content, for example when using more than one screen
for a big desktop. It gets harder if you want the same image on both.

Many of the older cards that had a TV out capability would scale (or
probably more accurately decimate) the output to make whatever main
resolution was selected viewable (although not necessarily readable) on
a secondary TV.

The more modern cards with two completely independent screen outputs
("dual head") like your (and my) ATI cards don't have any default
options to allow one screen to duplicate the other as far as I am aware.


--
Cheers,

John.

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