Anyone ever viewed laptop on tv with s video cable?

Isabel Cutler · Mar 16, 2003

We have a Dell Inspiron 8200 laptop and my husband hooked it up to our tv and it worked just fine until it went into sleep mode...now we can't get it to show on the tv. Anyone have some advice? I want to use this setup for our Photoshop study group.
TIA.
Isabel
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Isabel Cutler · Mar 16, 2003

We had to make some settings change on the video card. Have no idea why it worked initially, however! Image isn't the greatest, but it beats havving a group of people hover around a desktop monitor. If you haven't tried this, make sure you set your monitor resolution to 800 x 600 (or 640 x 480) otherwise you won't fit all the desktop contents on the screen.
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Tisya · Mar 16, 2003

Isabel, I have hooked my Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 via S video cable to our big screen 54" and it works fine. My monitor set up is 1024X768. I have an ATI card.-Tisya

Sam Landsman · Mar 16, 2003

What kind of graphics card do you have? On my Sony I have an ATI and you have to go into the settings and and hit advanced in the settings tab. Then go to displays and enable the TV output.

Tisya said:
Isabel, I have hooked my Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 via S video
cable to our big screen 54" and it works fine. My monitor set up
is 1024X768. I have an ATI card.-Tisya

Isabel Cutler · Mar 16, 2003

Does the whole desktop fit on your screen...Dell said 800 x 600 or 640 x 480 to fit it all on.
Thanks for the input.
Isabel

Tisya said:
Isabel, I have hooked my Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 via S video
cable to our big screen 54" and it works fine. My monitor set up
is 1024X768. I have an ATI card.-Tisya

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Isabel Cutler · Mar 16, 2003

NVidia Geoforce2...and yes, we discovered that settings for the card had to be adjusted.
Thanks.
Isabel

Sam Landsman said:
Tisya said:

Isabel, I have hooked my Toshiba Satellite 1905-S301 via S video
cable to our big screen 54" and it works fine. My monitor set up
is 1024X768. I have an ATI card.-Tisya

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Tisya · Mar 16, 2003

Isabel Cutler said:
Does the whole desktop fit on your screen...Dell said 800 x 600 or
640 x 480 to fit it all on.
Thanks for the input.
Isabel

It was a letter box/VCD format. But I bet if the movie is full screen it will also show as full screen. Pictures from CD (.jpg) plays on DVD also works fine as full screen. If I remember right, yes my whole desktop fit the screen. I know at work our training dept is using power point via laptop connected to projector (I think big screen uses projector) via S-video.

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