re: compaq laptop---->s video on tv shows dsktop background only
Thursday, March 27, 2008 at 6:10 am
Windows Vista Annoyances Discussion Forum
Posted by Larry
(90 messages posted)
You probably need to change the resolution of your laptop to better accommodate the
the resolution of the TV. If the TV is a wide screen display, then the task bar is
being cut out of the display. Normally, s-video out and projection from a laptop
works best at 800 x 600. You may need to adjust this for your needs.
On Friday, March 21, 2008 at 9:44 pm, steven roper wrote:
>I started with a near perfect representation of my monitor on the tv in s video,
>(all icons, windows, mouse, etc..) but some of the icons were slightly off the screen.
>I played around with different choices in display settings and got stuck with (laptop)1.
>generic pnp monitor on nvidia gforce 7000m/nforce610m ....and (tv s video) 2. generic
>non pnp monitor on nvidia gforce 7000m/nforce610m - no other choices. The laptop
>monitor displays normally, but the tv s-video shows only the desktop background,
>nothing else. When I change the s-video (2,) to main monitor, I get the cursor on
>the tv only, but with the windows opening on the laptop monitor (1,) and no cursor
>on the laptop, forcing me to reboot manually. How useless!
>If I remember correctly, there were more choices before I started playing around.
>What would I do about this? I'd be happy with the original setup, even if the display
>doesn't fit quite perfectly on my tube-tv screen, which isn't a wide screen anyway.
>I didn't see any options to restore the default settings. How would I get back to
>the basic, common sense thing that most people would want; to mirror their pc monitor
>with s-video on a television screen?
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