Using TV's as a monitor?

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Flipanese

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Hi, I was wondering if it is possible to hook up the PC to the regular TV using S-Video to RCA cable(4 pin). I tried to hook it up on my own but did not seem to work, so I came here for some help. I have an extra TV(Toshiba MV20Q41: 20" TV/VCR Comibnation), which has no S-Video input but video/audio RCA input, so I tried hooking this up to my PC(HP Pavilion M7763W Media Center) with S-Video to RCA cable which I bought from ebay. When I connect the cables to the PC and the TV, the audio seems to work fine, but TV screen stays blank. I am not good with computers so I have no clue how to solve this problem. Any help or suggestion will be appreciated, thank you. :D
 
You probably simply don't have TV-Out enabled. Go though your advanced display properties and you should see an option for TV-Out somewhere in there. Just don't expect very high quality images...
 
Thank you for the responce. I may sound stupid but are you talking about doing that on the TV? If so it may not be the problem because I could use DVD players and game systems etc. with no problem. If this has to be done on the computer, will you explain little more how to configure this? Thank you for help.
 
On the computer. Right-click the desktop, proporites, advanced setup... It's somewhere in there. I'm on my laptop(got an nvidia card at home) so I can't tell you exactly where to go from there...but it's somewhere within the menus.
 
Ok, I think I'm in the right place, but I can't figure out what to do now. I clicked pretty much everything but still cannot get it to work. :confused:

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Yes, you're correct. Now I downloaded the driver and finished installing, how do I change it to this new one? I noticed that after installing there were new tabs.

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Figures...the site died so my responce didn't post. Sorry if this is a bit rushed...

Under advanced, click the new tab, then control panel user interface. Change it back to the classic mode.

Now click nView Display Settings, and you should see a drop-down saying Single Display. See if there are other options here. If not, click detect displays. Of course, you need to have your TV connected for all this.

I thought there was some way to force TV-Out, but I don't see it right off. Maybe it was for an ATI card...
 
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