Re: Can I use component in rather than VGA for MCE

I can't thank you enough for all your help Ralp. Your a real
lifesaver.

I've printed up your great directions and will definitely let you
know how
it works out, but not today unfortunately.

Today a great guy on my favorite group u2u is helping me diagnosis a
fatal stop error which
I've been getting ever since I got this PC. This is a brand new
puter which has given me nothing,
but headaches and I wouldn't recommend CyberPower to my worse enemy.

I'm off to run a memory test for at least 4 hours. Hope to be back
tomorrow. Thanks again.

Betty
"RalfG" <itsnotme@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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It is good to be cautious, but there isn't really anything in these
settings that you cannot readily undo. One of the benefits of
having a dual monitor setup is that if you mess up the settings on
one display badly enough so that it is unusable you can still
access the display settings for it from the other monitor and
change things back again.

The way the TV is connected to the computer now I don't think you
want to change the setting to TV. As far as the video card is
concerned your TV is just another Flat Panel Display monitor. All
of the following pertains to Media Center settings, NOT ATI or
Windows display adapter/monitor settings.

When you go into Media Center Settings->Media Center
Setup->Configure your TV or Monitor, (ignore the first part about
adjusting TV colours and watching the video for now) click Next:

In the Connection Type options list you are presented with 3
choices... 1-Composite or S-Video, 2-DVI, VGA, or HDMI and 3-
Component (YPbPr). Currently you would select the second option
DVI,VGA or HDMI.

After that you need to choose the Display width, Standard (4:3) or
Widescreen (16:9). I believe you need to select the Widescreen
setting.

Finally you will come to the point where you need to confirm your
display Resolution, either accepting the value shown or not, in
which case setup will show you a list of available resolutions and
you pick the correct one. I see in my list (Standard 4:3) that
1280 x 764 is not available, HOWEVER, if I change the Display width
to Widescreen instead of Standard 1280x768 does become a valid
display option.

There are several more settings to make after the above but those
were the main steps in setting the correct resolution for using
Media Center on your TV.

The ATI/Windows display settings might also give you a different
set of resolution values if you are able to set the LCD TV as being
16:9 Widescreen instead of 4:3 Standard (in Advanced settings or
Catalyst Control Center).




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