| Forum Home | ||||
| Press F1 | ||||
| Thread ID: 104654 | 2009-11-04 00:11:00 | Dual monitor setup question | kountryken (14110) | Press F1 |
| Post ID | Timestamp | Content | User | ||
| 827005 | 2009-11-04 00:11:00 | I have a HP media system with Vista installed. An Nec LCD monitor as default. I have 2 DVi connections on back of PC. Nec monitor on 1 of them. I have connected a40inch Samsung TV to the other DVi connection. I have a Nvidia graphics card. when i get the PC and TV to display the same thing, graaphics good on TV the graphics and icons on PC are slightly out of proportion and distorted, though perfect on the TV screen. When I attempt to change resolution on the PC i loose the TV signal. any ideas please? ken | kountryken (14110) | ||
| 827006 | 2009-11-04 00:14:00 | have you tried viewing only on the tv? How is the tv connected to the dvi port? | nedkelly (9059) | ||
| 827007 | 2009-11-04 00:15:00 | Are you using a HDMI, DVI or VGA (HD45) input on the TV? Is the TV a plasma or LCD? | wratterus (105) | ||
| 827008 | 2009-11-04 02:41:00 | I have a HP media system with Vista installed. An Nec LCD monitor as default. I have 2 DVi connections on back of PC. Nec monitor on 1 of them. I have connected a40inch Samsung TV to the other DVi connection. I have a Nvidia graphics card. when i get the PC and TV to display the same thing, graaphics good on TV the graphics and icons on PC are slightly out of proportion and distorted, though perfect on the TV screen. When I attempt to change resolution on the PC i loose the TV signal. any ideas please? ken When you get them to display the same thing (clone), the resolutions will also be the same. If the monitor's aspect ratio doesn't match the tv, it will look distorted. If yuo change the resolution on the monitor to something the tv doesn't support, there will be no image on the tv. |
utopian201 (6245) | ||
| 827009 | 2009-11-05 19:47:00 | utopian201, yes you are right. DVi cable plugged into DVi on back of desktop pc. other end of cable DVi is plugged into an adapter and VGA on back of Samsung LCD 40" TV which is for PC input. | kountryken (14110) | ||
| 827010 | 2009-11-05 22:11:00 | When you get them to display the same thing (clone), the resolutions will also be the same. If the monitor's aspect ratio doesn't match the tv, it will look distorted. Exactly, I suspect that this is your problem here. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 827011 | 2009-11-05 22:31:00 | Agent 24! OK but can i fix my problem | kountryken (14110) | ||
| 827012 | 2009-11-05 22:33:00 | It seems that the TV only accepts one type of resolution from the PC, but PC monitor doesn't like that and gives me the slightly distorted deskktop icons | kountryken (14110) | ||
| 827013 | 2009-11-05 22:53:00 | I just don't think it's going to be possible, then (not without one or the other looking weird anyway) However if you were running the displays in a different mode, where you can change resolutions independantly, it should work. It just wouldn't be clone, you'd have to manually put whatever you wanted on each display there. |
Agent_24 (57) | ||
| 827014 | 2009-11-06 12:58:00 | I just don't think it's going to be possible, then (not without one or the other looking weird anyway) However if you were running the displays in a different mode, where you can change resolutions independantly, it should work. It just wouldn't be clone, you'd have to manually put whatever you wanted on each display there. Yep, you would have to use extended desktop. This can be found under personalize>display settings |
Blam (54) | ||
| 1 2 | |||||