Transferring output to TV

irish fella · 07-18-2007, 07:49 PM

hi

I have a little problem. I just bought a cable to connect my laptop to my TV. I want to be able to watch stuff that i play on windows media player on a TV screen rather than my small laptop screen. So i hooked up the cable, clicked control panel > display > settings and ticked the box that says extend my windows desktop onto this monitor. This is where the problem lies. I dont see any of the icons on my TV, all i can see is the wallpaper. I opened windows media player and played something but still all i see on the TV is my laptop's wallpaper. Im no good at computers as u all would have guessed by now so any help would be appreciated

ThatGuy16 · 07-18-2007, 08:23 PM

You need to make the 2nd monitor (tv) primary so you will have all your icons/start bar ect. on your tv....as it is now you can drag windows onto your tv.

Just right click the monitor 1 or 2 under properties and select primary

irish fella · 07-18-2007, 11:28 PM

Ok i tried that but now i dont even see the the wallpaper anymore

It says "No input signal" on TV. I'm never gonna get this to work *sighs*

Impulse666 · 07-19-2007, 12:55 AM

you could have made it work as it was before. just drag your windows outside of your laptop screen and onto your TV as you set up in the display properties.

irish fella · 07-19-2007, 06:44 PM

sorry can u tell me how to drag windows into TV

?

patrickv · 07-20-2007, 05:33 AM

to drag display to telly just "Right-click" desktop-->"properties"-->"settings"
and enable your secondary display.when enabled you can just drag any window to the edge of your
primary monitor until it appears on the other

i have problems with that also, well not big problems i can display my 2nd output to telly but it's garbled, and grainish..i think i have to change to pal or ntsc or something

irish fella · 07-24-2007, 02:05 AM

i had problems with my internet so i only managed to log back in now. Thanks patrickv, i'll try that.

07-18-2007, 07:49 PM	#1 (permalink)
irish fella New Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 4	Transferring output to TV hi I have a little problem. I just bought a cable to connect my laptop to my TV. I want to be able to watch stuff that i play on windows media player on a TV screen rather than my small laptop screen. So i hooked up the cable, clicked control panel > display > settings and ticked the box that says extend my windows desktop onto this monitor. This is where the problem lies. I dont see any of the icons on my TV, all i can see is the wallpaper. I opened windows media player and played something but still all i see on the TV is my laptop's wallpaper. Im no good at computers as u all would have guessed by now so any help would be appreciated

07-18-2007, 08:23 PM	#2 (permalink)
ThatGuy16 Diamond Member Join Date: Apr 2007 Location: USA Posts: 5,148	You need to make the 2nd monitor (tv) primary so you will have all your icons/start bar ect. on your tv....as it is now you can drag windows onto your tv. Just right click the monitor 1 or 2 under properties and select primary __________________ CPU: C2D E8400 @ 4Ghz 1.23v HSF: Apogee GTX MB: Gigabyte X38-DS4 Ram: 2x2GB G. Skill DDR2-1068 HDD: 320GB Seagate PSU: OCZ GameXStream 700w OS: Vista Home Premium 64bit GFX: HD3870 @ 837/1152 LCD: LG 22" L226WTQ My Old 3DMark06: 20008 =(

07-19-2007, 12:55 AM	#4 (permalink)
Impulse666 Platinum Member Join Date: Feb 2007 Posts: 571	you could have made it work as it was before. just drag your windows outside of your laptop screen and onto your TV as you set up in the display properties. __________________ Ubuntu 7.10 Pentium 4 631 3.0Ghz 160 + 320 + 320 GB 1024MB 7600GT OC Acer 22" LCD M-Audio Audiophile 2496 Sony STR-G1ES Scott SP1001 (x2) ::: FOLDING FOR THE GOOD OF MANKIND ::: F@H Team 44358 ::: Team Stats :::

07-20-2007, 05:33 AM	#6 (permalink)
patrickv Diamond Member Join Date: Jul 2006 Location: Soul Chamber Posts: 5,464	to drag display to telly just "Right-click" desktop-->"properties"-->"settings" and enable your secondary display.when enabled you can just drag any window to the edge of your primary monitor until it appears on the other i have problems with that also, well not big problems i can display my 2nd output to telly but it's garbled, and grainish..i think i have to change to pal or ntsc or something __________________ Laptop: Thinkpad X60: Core2Duo T7200 @ 2Ghz,1GB DDR2,110GB SATA -winXP ProSP2 Work Desktop: Core Duo E2180 @ 2Ghz,1.5GB DDR2,240GB HD - XP PRO SP2 Home: Core Duo E2180 2Ghz,1.5GB DDR2,Nvidia GForce 6200TB,320 GB (2x160GB) -Dual boot - XP / OSX 10.5.2

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07-18-2007, 11:28 PM	#3 (permalink)
irish fella New Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 4	Ok i tried that but now i dont even see the the wallpaper anymore It says "No input signal" on TV. I'm never gonna get this to work sighs

07-19-2007, 06:44 PM	#5 (permalink)
irish fella New Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 4	sorry can u tell me how to drag windows into TV ?

07-24-2007, 02:05 AM	#7 (permalink)
irish fella New Member Join Date: Jul 2007 Posts: 4	i had problems with my internet so i only managed to log back in now. Thanks patrickv, i'll try that.

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