Re: Graphics Card problem

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On Mar 22, 2:28 pm, "Carole UK" <caroleurchfont(at)googlemail(dot)com>
wrote:
Thanks for this Paul - I tried every different screen resolution that exists
and it had no effect.
BUT ...after several more hours of fiddling about I decided to swap the two
monitors over on the two ports on the card - I plugged my primary PC monitor
into the DVI port (with a DVI/VGA adaptor on it), and the secondary TV
monitor into the VGA port.
Bingo - both worked great in 'clone mode'.

HOWEVER - I still have one problem you may have some ideas on - the entire
point of doing all this was so that I can watch videos that I've downloaded
onto my PC, on the large flat panel TV screen in my bedroom next door to my
office (BBC iPLayer programmes mainly) instead of sitting at my desk to
watch them.   When I start the videos they play perfectly normally on my PC,
but the secondary screen shows the application window/frame (Windows Media
Player or whatever else) but the space in the middle where the film should
be is blank.   Same when I put it up to full-screen.  Any thoughts ?

Thanks very much for your time :-)
Carole



"Paul" <nos...@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote in messagenews:fs19f4$6ug$1@xxxxxxxxxxx
Carole UK wrote:
I've just bought and installed a new graphics card (XFX GeForce 5200).  I
got it from Dell, so it's a 'good' card (not a dodgy second-hand one !)..
I recognise it's not the 'best and latest' card available, but it is new
and it should work (someone on here told me to dump it and just get a
newer card - but you don't need a Ferrari necessarily to get from A to B
!).  I'm running XP SP2, plenty of RAM etc, no other problems.
I want to attach a second monitor to my PC - an new flat panel LCD TV
screen
which says it can be used as a PC monitor.   The TV monitor is in a room
next to my office - I want to run a cable from my PC to the TV monitor so
I
can watch DVDs, and other stuff I've downloaded in that room.  I
therefore
need to be able to run both monitors AT THE SAME TIME in 'clone' mode.  I
found out that many graphics cards have two ports (DVI and VGA) but will
only support one or the other, not both at once.  My new card claims it
will
support two together.  I've connected everything, downloaded latest
driver
from website, set up 'clone' mode etc.
Problem - the TV monitor shows all the startup screens exactly as on my
PC
monitor when I'm booting up, but as soon as Windows startup is finished I
just get 'no signal'.  I've tried changing screen resolutions - no joy.
I've sent emails off to XFX and to LG (the TV manufacturer) but I guess I
won't get a reply till next week because of Easter.  I've spent 3 days so
far fiddling with it - driving me nuts.........can any of you clever guys
suggest anything please ?

Generally, there will be a practical resolution limit, when driving a
TV over a composite or S-video connection. Try a lower resolution
setting in "Clone" mode, and see if both work that way. Start with
640x480, for example.

A second function for a TV set, is "Force detection". If the software
thinks there is no TV connected, it may disable the signal to the
TV set. The Display Control Panel may reflect this, in some way.
"Force Detection", if the check box is available, basically declares
there is always a 75 ohm load on the TV cable, bypassing the hardware
detection.

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Which drivers are you using? The default video card drivers that are
built into XP are extremely old and "lamed." It is always better to
get the revised drivers from the card's manufacturer or video chip
makers (nVidia.)

Also, if you have a LCD TV, yo should look for pssible drivers on the
manufacturer's web site.
.

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