RE: HELP! Dell told me I cannot watch tv on my tv AND work on compute

I do not know in your case if you can or can not. Does your video card
support this? I see that these are optioned with ATI and Nvidia. Check the
video card manufacture site to see.

I use the Nvidia 5700 LE video card and have the monitor and TV hooked up.
I force the video card to output to the TV and can do exactly what you want
to do, so it does work just a matter and being smarter than the Dell
people...

Things to look in your setup would be: Force video out to TV, set up the
video software not to use clone mode as this will make the TV and desktop the
same, you want it set so that there is a primary and secondary monitor.

Bradley

Bradley

"yewing" wrote:

> I just invested thousands in two new computers - Dell 8400 with dual tuners
> and windows xp media center 2005. I've been trying to configure the media
> center so it would play through my tv so I can work on the computer WHILE
> watching my t.v.
>
> After being on with support for nearly an hour, while they configured my
> settings in their lab, I was told you can't do that with media center!!!
> They said only one screen is the primary screen. I can't do both. If I
> direct the media center to the t.v. then I can't use the monitor with the
> computer.
>
> My call was initiated to them because I can't get a signal to my t.v. I do
> not have a t.v. with an s-video cable where I'm trying to hook things up
> right now. I was advised, through here, to use an RF modulator. I tried
> that too. No dice. So, I called technical support. Technical support
> transferred me to a "media center" specialist.
>
> Please help me. Have I just purchased two REALLY expensive tivo boxes? I
> have these computers set up, networked, and the packing is already broken
> down. It's going to be miserable trying to return them. Yet, I don't want
> to keep them if they can't do all I bought them for. Please, please help me.
.

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