Computer to your TV

Posted on June 26, 2007 at 8:50 am

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I’m writing this post on how to connect your PC or computer to a TV because last week I returned from a trip in India and wanted to show all of my pictures and videos to my family from my laptop onto our HDTV, but unfortunately I did not have the correct cords and so after fumbling around for 30 minutes trying to connect my computer to the TV, I had to tell everyone that they would have to wait till the next weekend! Pretty annoying considering the times we live in, it should be quite easy to connect the two together!

So here’s a quick walk-through of all the methods that I know (if you know any more, please comment) to connect a laptop or PC to your TV:

1. S-Video – This is probably the most common method out there currently because an S-Video cable is cheap as heck and just about every TV under the sun has a S-Video port. You’ll have to make sure you laptop is equipped with this port. Remember, there are two types of S-Video cables: 4-pin and 7-pin. Most laptops and PC’s are equipped with a 7-pin port, so if your TV only has a 4-pin S-Video port, then this method will not work.

2. VGA – If you have a HDTV, then you will be better off connecting using a VGA cable. It gives much better quality than S-Video and as with S-Video, the cable is very cheap. You usually won’t find a VGA port on regular TV’s though, so this option is if you have an HDTV.

3. DVI - DVI stands for Digital Visual Interface with “digital” being the key word there. The digital signal will give a higher quality picture than either S-Video or VGA. Of course, your computer will need to have a DVI connection and your TV will need to be an HDTV. This cord is definitely not cheap, it ranges anywhere from $40 to $80.

4. HDMI – Using HDMI will give you the best quality by far. No computers that I know of yet have HDMI ports, but you can get a DVI to HDMI cable to connect it to your HDTV. HDMI is compatible with DVI.

5. Scan Converter Box – This is the last method that I could think of and it involves using a scan converter box, which takes a VGA signal and converts it into S-Video or component video.

Here’s a graphic I created with some pictures of the various cables:

Hope this helps someone! If you have any other ideas or suggestions, please feel free to comment!!! Thanks!

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379 Responses to “How to connect your Laptop/PC/Computer to your TV”

Peter Mule said on : August 12th, 2007 at 2:23 am

tried using a vga cord connected to laptop and hdtv. tuned tv to pc mode but when laptop is switched on the screen just remains black as well as the tv screen..The only thing that works is that i can use the cursor on the laptop and it shows up on the hdtv but all remains black…what can i do..please,,,any suggestions….thank you

akishore said on : August 14th, 2007 at 7:46 am

Hi Peter,

You could try to do a few things for starters: go ahead and change the resolution on your laptop to something lower, maybe 800×600, sometimes that causes the problem. You can also change the color scheme to 24-bit if it’s set to 32-bit and see if that works.

Also, you said you are changing the TV to PC mode, but what about the laptop? Sometimes, you have to press FN (function key) and F8 (the CRT/LCD) key to have the signal sent out to the TV.

Let me know if these three things work or not!

Thanks

kam said on : August 23rd, 2007 at 1:16 pm

thanks for the great tips.

Orpheus said on : August 24th, 2007 at 8:59 pm

The Dell XPS M1330 has HDMI built in. Kinda expensive though…

Hmz said on : August 24th, 2007 at 9:50 pm

Dude, the easiest and by far the best way I have seen is to set the advance timings on a pc just right and use a vga to scart cable (Maybe with audio of you don’t have the pc hooked up to an audio system of some sort). This is a nerdy approach but you get superb results for little money with stuff that’s standard on both the TV and PC. You can also get dvi to s-video or CVBS to make it happen.

One on my favorite ways is to just stream it to my TV via a computer that is hooked up via DVI. This way you can have a silent, efficient and small htcp that can stream over your wan.

Hope it helps

Javi said on : August 25th, 2007 at 2:05 am

I was literally trying to figure this out jsut a few hours ago at Circuit City, for my friend who just got a HD tv for his dorm. Had i known some of this info for sure, then i would have told him to just save his money for better things like a 360/PS2/Wii. He lacks a DVI on his laptop so he really cant get the quality he thinks byuseing the hd tv as a monitor

Delahue said on : August 25th, 2007 at 8:27 pm

I have recently bought a 40″ LCD Samsung with 1080P Full HDTV. I am trying to connect via DVI to HTMI, for some reason my tv wont pick it up. If anyone can help me find out what i need to do I would greatly appreciate it.

Barclay said on : August 28th, 2007 at 11:25 am

I found this in FAQ,s at Olevia. I just got one of their HDTV’s. Haven’t tried hooking up yet. Good luck.

Q: I am using a PC, but I get no image, what should I do?

A: Olevia recommends connecting with computer monitor first to re-configure a resolution of 1024 x 768 @ 60 Hz and connects to Olevia LCD TV afterward. Anything higher, the LCD TV will not recognize

Dan said on : August 28th, 2007 at 8:30 pm

Hi,

Great tip! I just read about a great place to buy cables in the August Issue of Smart Money Magazine. The web site is monoprice.com. I do not have any affiliation with them. I was able to purchase a gold plated HDMI to DVI 15ft cable for $6.30 + $7 shipping! WOW!
Can’t wait to try this when I get it.
Thanks again.
Dan

Kev Smith said on : August 30th, 2007 at 8:51 am

Hi,

I have just purchased the cables to connect my laptop to my TV. But guess what, my laptop DOESN’T have the S Video port! It is an Acer Aspire so hey, I guess you get what you pay for! Anyway, is there any way I can convert the S Video 7 pin connector to the parallel port on my laptop? Are there any adapters out there?

Thanks!
Kev

Miguel Andrade said on : August 31st, 2007 at 6:10 am

Hi,

I also have a question:

I have a MacBook Pro laptop with a DVI output with an adaptor to VGA; at the present the laptop is connected to an external computor screen (using the VGA adaptor). However, I would like to plug it to my TV, a Panasonic (not a recent model) with two Scart inputs and a S-Video (4 pins). Would there be a way to make it hapen? (I have asqued in a couple of shops and people told me that connecting the Mac wouldn’t be possible, but I don’t know if they knew what they were talking about)

Thanks.

Miguel

v said on : September 4th, 2007 at 6:04 pm

I tried following all of your advice, but the tv says NO SIGNAL.

since my laptop doesnt have a dvi port, i’m using a vga-dvi converter. then i’m using a dvi-hdmi converter to connect to the tv, but it still doesn’t work.

i’ve tried using the Fn + F8 key, but that didn’t work… any ideas?

thankss

Nick H said on : September 4th, 2007 at 9:29 pm

I have a Tevion 32″ LCD TV, my computer has 3 outputs, 1xVGA, 1xDVI, 1xS-Video. I bought a DVI-D cable (5 metres) and a DVI to HDMI Adaptor to connect the computer and the TV.

The video works fine but of course I cannot get any audio since the TV does not appear to have a audio input related to the HDMI video input. Is there any other work arounds to get audio to work in this case?

If there isn’t I will just get a DVI to VGA adaptor and a 5 metre VGA cable and connect that to my TV and use the 3.5mm “PC Audio In” to connect the audio. How much worse will the video look using VGA instead of DVI?

Nick H said on : September 4th, 2007 at 9:31 pm

Oh and I forgot to mention the TV inputs are 1xVGA, 1xHDMI, 1×3.5mm PC Audio In, 1xS-Video and a whole bunch of composite ports

Please any help is appreciated
Thank you
Nick

JOrdan said on : September 5th, 2007 at 8:07 am

I was gonna try that same thing ‘v’ Im using an S-Video cable to connect my PC to TV on a 50″ sony HDTV. Picture looks liek crap.. lines scroll from bottom to up and its pretty fuzzy. I’ll try using a VGA component and let everyone knows how that works, if not, i’ll try what v tried, in my head, it should work lol

Mike said on : September 15th, 2007 at 12:22 pm

I hooked my computer to my TV using the s-video cable, then I configured my my video card, and now I can see my comp image on my TV screen.. However, what Im really trying to do, is go the other way. I want my TV screen image to appear in a video program on my computer so I can capture the footage with my CPU.. How do I get my computer to find the TV?

AbhiV said on : September 17th, 2007 at 10:26 am

I have a Samsung LCD HDTV and a DELL XPS Laptop which has a HDMI output , recently I bought a HDMI cable to transfer video signal from my laptop to my LCD TV , I was successfully able to do that but unfortunatly I was not able to transfer Audio from LAPTOP to my TV and I had to depend on LAPTOP speakers for it. Any Inputs on How can I transfer Audio from laptop to my HDTV using HDMI cable ?

Peter said on : September 18th, 2007 at 5:31 pm

Hi All,

Im kinda in the same position as Nick H. Firstly i connected by 32″ LCD HDTV to my computer via a S-Video cable. After playiong around with the options i got it working but it wasnt very clear. I want to connect my computer to my TV using a DVI cable but i cannot do that as i only have 1 DVI output on my video card and that is connected to my monitor. So i was thinking of using the spare VGA output from my video card to connect to my LCD TV. What do you guys think? Would i get better quality out of VGA then S-Video and also how much of a difference would it be if i connected DVI insted?

Bob M said on : September 19th, 2007 at 4:42 pm

Mike. You cannot go the other way as far as I know. You will need a TV Tuner card to capture the TV signal on your computer. I have the Nvidia DualTV MCE card and it works awesome. You do need to be running Windows MCE or the top end Vista. I think ATI video capture/TV tuner cards will work with XP. You can then use your computer as a pvr. You will need lots of harddrive space as the video files are big. With MCE a 1 hr show is about 3.5gb in size in the best quality. They record in dvr.ms format. Other cards probably save the files in a different file format that are smaller in size.

Adam said on : September 25th, 2007 at 7:16 pm

I have a laptop with a VGA output and a TV with a DVI output. Can I use a VGA to DVI cable to connect my laptop to the television? And also,would I need some sort of DVI-out video card or a VGA-out video card?

Yogi said on : October 13th, 2007 at 7:46 am

I have one question: if S-Video cable is my only option, then how can I get the audio connection?
Big thanks.

DB said on : October 14th, 2007 at 3:52 am

Hi all

Well, I too have some problems trying to connect my PC to my television. The TV is a pretty recent Philips CRT screen with S-video and composite (yellow, white, red cinch). When I boot my PC, I can see the whole hardware control, including the windows load screen on the tv. But when the PC actually shows Windows (so the log-on screen (“Welcome user”), and afterwards my desktop) the TV responds as horizontal lines that blip every now and then.
I have tried to change my resolution on primary AND secondary monitors, changed Hz, switched cables, swiched signal, etc…

notthing seems to help. The only thing i have, is sound comming from TV, and thats it.
Anyone some suggestions ?

Many Thanks

Ryan said on : October 16th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

I bought the VGA cord, it has a male and a female end. However my HDTV has a female plug and so does my laptop. Any suggestions?

John Ransom said on : October 17th, 2007 at 3:49 am

I used an S-Video to RCA cable to hook my computer up to my tv and it worked great for a while. Now, for some reason, everything works fine except that the video stopped. I can see my desktop on the tv and Media Player comes up fine, but as soon as I press play, instead of the tv show or movie, I just get a green blur in the visualizer. Anyone know why?

Bob M said on : October 17th, 2007 at 6:14 am

You can get Cords that have Male or Female on both ends. I purchased a Male, Male cord at Staples to hook mine up.

Roger said on : October 18th, 2007 at 4:12 am

I have connected to my TV using the VGA cable and picture is good. My problem is I cannot get any sound using phono connections from my laptop. I have a Sony KDL-26T3000 TV which has a variety of phono sockets on the back. Tried them all without success. Any ideas please?

RAM said on : October 19th, 2007 at 2:49 am

I am planning to connect my toshiba laptop to my Panasonic Plasma HDTV. I have S-video and VGA slots in my laptop and i have 3 s-video, 2 RGB slots in my HDTV. Basically my problem is connecting we can connect anyway but on which channel i need to see the picture of my laptop. When i press TV/video button i am getting a popup on my TV asking for selection there i see TV/COMPONENT 1/Component 2/DVD/Cable/Video1/video2/video3. Among those only TV/DVD/CABLE are highlighted and the other stuff are greyed, which i cant select. How i can make Video1 or component 1 enable to select. My 2 HDMI ports are used for DVD and CABLE DVR. So, only option i have is either S-video or RGB component connection in HDTV. Pls. Help! Thanks in advance.

sam said on : October 20th, 2007 at 7:13 pm

I have connected my s-video cable to the TV, but I don’t know how to configure the video card to send siginal to TV.

Ns said on : October 24th, 2007 at 1:03 am

Guys, Thanks for the great info. Yesterday i broke the display for my laptop and not wondering how to connect it to my Samsung 32″ LCD t.v. It has PC in slot for D cable, guys for your experience pls let me know should i go about buying a s-vedio cable to vga d cable, which one is better.

ricky said on : October 25th, 2007 at 9:32 am

Hi guys great info, but what i would like to know is, how can you connect your laptop to your tv so you get both picture and audio. The reason being is that i have just purchased a s-video lead so i can connect my laptop to my tv but there is no sound.

akishore said on : October 25th, 2007 at 11:11 am

Hi,

If you need to get the sound from your computer or laptop to the TV, you need to use a different cable in addition to the computer to TV cable.

The cable to transfer sound from your computer to your TV is called a 3.5mm Mini-Stereo Male to Two RCA Male Speaker Cable. Search for that in Google and you will find a bunch.

Now you’ll be able to see the picture and get sound from your laptop to the TV.

Aseem

Steve Nightingale said on : October 30th, 2007 at 11:51 am

Hi, I recently bought a 42 inch 1080p lcd tv for my dorm room and I want to connect mydesktop to it. However, for some reason the computer will only go to 1280 by 1024 with blue vga to vga cable. is it possible to go 1920 by 1080 with this cable? If not, I have a hdmi to dvid cable but this does not seem to be working

thanks
steve

jaro said on : October 31st, 2007 at 2:20 am

Hi I have connected my pc to TV using the VGA cable picture is great but how can i get sound, i have LCD LG 32″ brand new to recive picture from pc i using rgb channel, i dont know what kind of cable should i use, becouse my 3.5 mm jack to 2xRCA audio cable is working in AV channel.

Shah said on : November 1st, 2007 at 12:57 am

Hi I have connected my pc to TV using the VGA cable picture is great but how can i get sound, i have Sony LCD TV. To recive pictures from pc i am using PC channel as provided in the TV but, i dont know what kind of cable shall i use to get sound.

Rich said on : November 7th, 2007 at 2:10 pm

Hello. A couple of people on here have the same issue as me but their problems were never addressed. My TV won’t recognize my computer via HDMI to DVI connection. My cable is 15 ft. long and I heard that the cable may be too long for the TV to pick up a signal. I was also wondering if I needed a specific driver to get my computer to recognize my 50″ Samsung HDTV. Thanks in advance for any advice.

Rich

Reese said on : November 13th, 2007 at 8:01 am

Hi there. I have a Samsung Plasma HDTV. I have a VGA cable and can view video from my PC on to the TV set, however although I’ve tried to connect the RCA (grey) cable. Please can someone please help

Reese said on : November 13th, 2007 at 8:06 am

Sorry, although I have the RCA cable, I’m unable to get any sound. Can someone help me with the sound issue

Avinash said on : November 13th, 2007 at 5:19 pm

I have Dell Latitude D420 which I would like to connect to TV. I cannot find S video connection on the laptop. Can you suggest a simpler and inexpensive to connect to TV.

pat said on : November 14th, 2007 at 1:30 am

I’m looking to hook my computer up to my 37″ vizio hdtv. It has a GRB slot and i want to hook up my vga cord to it from my computer. When i do it shows up but the image flickers and goes black from time to time. My desktop is a dell dimension 4600 from 2004 and someone said it might be my video card is not compatible. I really dont know much in the way of computers so do people know if that would be effecting it. Ive played around with the resolutions and that does not seem to do the trick.

geo said on : November 18th, 2007 at 2:05 pm

my sound is not working when i connect the laptop!!

Bill said on : November 20th, 2007 at 5:48 pm

Has anyone tried using your headphone jack on you pc then connecting your TV’s aduio input?
My Sony HDTV 42″ has a RGB connector in the back and beside it is an audio in (RCA jacks – red and white). I have not tried any hookups yet.
My Compaq laptop has what looks to be a mini 15 pin connector and my Sony has the regulr size 15 pin connector.
Is there a cable out there that has this makeup?

Bill said on : November 21st, 2007 at 10:03 am

Update: On my Sony HDTV on the back is a PC connection setup
RGB -15 D-sub connector and an audio input.

I connected the 15 pin – 15 pin D-Sub cable from
the laptop to the back of the Sony and connected to the headphone jack on the laptop to the audio in on the Sony.

Using the Sony remote opened the WEGA Menu and dropped down to the 7Th connection opened the setting to “PC”

Closed the menu and turned on the PC, (using Windows Vista)it detected the connection to the TV.

I selected the option to view TV with laptop.

Everything work great.

Good Luck

mrendolite said on : November 22nd, 2007 at 9:22 pm

i was trying to do the same thing and found this website that has cables that connect vga to any tv’s
it works great and very easy just plug it in.

http://www.aitech.com/products/converter.htm

DanS said on : November 27th, 2007 at 5:21 am

So can I go VGA to HDMI?

Wish i bought a laptop with DVI

HECZAR said on : November 28th, 2007 at 12:59 am

how about if my laptop has an s-video connection but my tv doesnt. can i somehow connect the s-video from my latop to my standalone dvd player, and from there the dvd to tv?

J-Dub said on : December 2nd, 2007 at 10:13 pm

I recently hooked up my laptop to my plasma tv (via D-Sub / VGA 15pin) but I’m not getting a consistent image.

I have tried the following already:

Updated my graphics card with the latest drivers (ATI Mobility Radeon 9700)
Varied the screen resolution from 1024×768 @ 60Hz to 800×600 (the manual specifies that the TV is optimal at 1380×768 @ 60Hz and supports resolutions below this)
Changed the configuration of the screens i.e. extend desktop, clone desktop etc…

I’m puzzled because the laptop acknowledges that the Plasma is connected (as it detects the actual plasma’s name) and when connected, the plasma briefly displays the desktop (for approx 0.5s) before displaying a blank (black) screen.

Chandra said on : December 4th, 2007 at 7:15 pm

I have the same problem with sound…

I bought a svideo to RCA(Yellow, Red White) cable from eBay and I am able to get the video not audio… the audio of TV makes huge buzz noise…

Anyone has great ideas… I am searching for a solution everywhere… if some finds, please post here…

sf said on : December 7th, 2007 at 12:29 pm

i have connected my computer to my tv monitor… I can surf and etc… but no sound from my computer to my tv. When I put dvd, I can watch but no audio. I used VGA connection. Don’t know how to get sound

Claus said on : December 9th, 2007 at 12:21 pm

Hi – i have a samsung lcd, and sony laptop (using hdmi), and trying to watch hd clip using lcd as my monitor. hd clip plays on laptop, but not on lcd. when i change the lcd resolution to recommended 1360:768 – signal to lcd is lost??
Can anyone help?

Krause said on : December 14th, 2007 at 11:50 am

I have the same port but I dont know what type of cable I need. Any ideas? Pictures will help too.

jamie said on : December 14th, 2007 at 12:11 pm

hey, can any1 tell me why, when i connect from my pc or xbox to my sony hdtv using vga cables in conjuction with rca cables, the picture and sound come up fine, except they’re on bloody different av channels!!! any ideas how to merge the 2 signals?? thanks.. happy xmas..

Claus said on : December 15th, 2007 at 7:11 am

Why are none of these questions been answered?

Bettie said on : December 18th, 2007 at 10:00 pm

I have a 37″ Vizio that I am trying to hook up to my Toshiba Satellite. It seems to work fine for the first couple of seconds and i can actually see my computer load on my television screen (COOL!!!), but then the screen goes blue and tells me I have lost my RGB signal(SO CLOSE!). I noticed that it does this once the laptop tries to load to the welcome page.
Please help me, what can I do, or what am I doing wrong?

nitin said on : December 19th, 2007 at 11:00 pm

I need to connct VGA outpur from my laptop to LCD TV.
can anyone please let me know what settings needs to be done on laptop and TV as well?

I have VGA cable and phsical connection is ok.

Arthur said on : December 20th, 2007 at 7:32 pm

So I got the tv and laptop working together, my problem is that when I try to full screen somehting like a hockey game, my lap top does it but the tv does not. Also I can watch movies that I download from bitcomet.

Any ideas? Thanks in advance
Cheers

jggj said on : December 26th, 2007 at 6:33 pm

try pushing Fn+F12 it worked with mine

angelo said on : December 28th, 2007 at 5:20 am

thankyou guys!

Kabbir Khan said on : January 1st, 2008 at 6:56 am

hello friends,
i have connected my laptop with Tv and it works nice but i get black and white screen how can i resolve the issue.i am connected through s video-Cable,can some one help ?
Regards,

pablo said on : January 5th, 2008 at 7:48 pm

READ THIS TO ANSWER AUDIO PROBLEMS!!

Ok you will need a cord for video and a seperate one for audio (may it be VGA or S-Video). The audio cable is
a 3.5mm double sided male cable. It looks like the part of a headphone set that you plug into your computer or MP3 player, except that the plug is on both sides. You need to plug one end into the headphone jack on your laptop and the other into the RGB Audio In jack on the back of your TV.

Thanks

Naureen said on : January 8th, 2008 at 4:25 pm

I tried connecting my laptops (Compaq / Dell) to my Samsung 42″ plasma using VGA as well as S-Video cable & the TV just does not respond. Although I tried using the Compaq laptop & the same cables & tried connecting with Panasonic as well as Sharp Plasmas & they detected the PC connection Immediately. I went to see Samsung Support, even there my compaq would not resond. Although when Samsung Support connected their Acer using ‘Intel Extreme Graphics2 for mobile’, it worked. I don’t have that software, can anyone suggest what to do.

Ciaran said on : January 12th, 2008 at 8:21 am

Great info on how to get started. I am now seemingly up and running however I have one major problem!!! Any time I try to play any of my files such as home videos (my wedding) I can see it on the laptop but not on the tv. The tv will show the media player but not the video it is showing! Any ideas? I have tried many different files and even some video straming sites and all are the same.

Naveen said on : January 18th, 2008 at 8:36 pm

i saw a cable on amazon.com that haid a vga input on one end and the three AV connector plugs on the end…the one thats red, white and yellow…its about 7 bucks, but i haven’t tried it yet here’s the link:
http://www.amazon.com/6ft-comp.....amp;sr=8-1

Mark Geyer said on : January 19th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

I have a Acoustic solutions LCD26805hd TV, I have bought all the correct cables( I think, one is a HDMI to DVI-D cable and the other is a audio cable, which is a Mini Jack to 2 RCA cables. I am able to get my desktop image to be on my TV screen and I can see the mouse moving around as well, but thats it, there is no desktop icons on the screen and when I open a program, like Autocad or play windows media player nothing comes up on the TV. Any help would be greatly appreciated. I have a Toshiba P100 laptop

cartman said on : January 24th, 2008 at 6:02 am

hi, i plugged my hp pavillion laptop to my tv via s-video. its works fine but whenever i play dvd’s from my cd it does not work. i see it on my lap top screen but on my tv it’s just blank… nut if i play dvd’s from my hard drive i see them both. help anyone please. thanks

kea1 said on : February 3rd, 2008 at 1:33 am

Very helpful i am sure i am older than everyone on this site and want to thak you all for the good advice

thomas said on : February 5th, 2008 at 1:16 pm

hi, i’ve been trying to connect my laptop to my hdtv using a vga to rca cable (red, green blue, ypbpr) however, when i connect and select the tv as my primary monitor it will only sometimes come on and when it does it is very out of colour and constantly flickers, does this mean my tv is not compatabile? i have a samsung r60 plus laptop and an ati radeon 1250 processor. can anybody help please!

Aaron said on : February 5th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

Ok, I have a Compaq Presario Desktop Computer.
I purchased it for almost 170$ less because it came without monitor.

Then i bought a 25 FT SVGA Male to Male Cable to plug my desktop into my RCA HDTV.
( I cant stand my current monitor lol )

If i plug the cable into my laptop, and hit the CRT/LCD button, then the TV Changes from No Signal, to the Laptop Screen. How do I get the Desktop to do this?
I cant exactly see what Im doign with no monitor plugged in…

J F said on : February 5th, 2008 at 7:07 pm

I am trying to hook up my laptop to my sony LCD. I have purchased a AVG cable and a RGA mini-to-mini audio cable. I can successfully transfer the video up to the television, but the audio doesn’t work. I continue to get the audio from whatever channel the tv was on prior to switching to PC mode. Please help!

uzma said on : February 6th, 2008 at 11:09 am

NVIDIA GeForce4 MX 420 (64mb)with TV output. Not give output to TV. Help me,

It is installed properly and wok good with monitor but when I am connecting with TV with the help of S-video cable it gives no output. Red point for Video White for Audio can I right.
Please help me about any setting of TV or Computer or any New Software it requires.

Plz send me that drivers or give me other direct link to download that driver. I am download driver from NVIDIA website but it is corrupted.

Robin said on : February 8th, 2008 at 3:23 pm

I’m using my tv as a computer monitor and it works great but i can’t get any sound. I don’t know what i did wrong. Your help would be greatly apreciated. Thanks!

Stephen Knowles said on : February 13th, 2008 at 7:09 am

Hi, is it possible to connect a laptop via the following process. i purchased a hdmi to dvi cable, also a dvi to 15 pin convertor. is it possible to get the laptop to display on the hd tv via this cable i have tried but it says no input available.

Katie said on : February 15th, 2008 at 5:29 pm

Hi, I have connected my laptop to both my LCD TV’s. The problem I have is that I would like to be able to watch TV whilst using the laptop. I cannot find a way of making the tv screen the main screen so that the sound is from the program I am watching rather than the laptop. I have a Lexsor LCD and an LG LCD…..anyone have any ideas as it is driving me crazy. Manual is useless by the way!!!

Bill said on : February 15th, 2008 at 6:20 pm

Katie
Are you able to toggle(With your LCD remote)out of the screen to TV or Satelite or DVR?

Katie said on : February 15th, 2008 at 6:35 pm

Hi Bill,

No, it doesn’t seem to be able to do that. It has a “swap” button but this doesn’t seem to work either. I’m having the same problem with both TV’s (One LG and One Lexsor).

Becks said on : March 1st, 2008 at 4:06 pm

Having the same audio difficulty as most. I have hooked the RCA cables from my headphone jack on my laptop to the RGB input on the back of my LCD TV… still no sound. I have tried the cables in every other input and they are working fine… but I can not get a sound when I plug them into the PC input on the TV. Any suggestions?

Darren Drake said on : March 3rd, 2008 at 2:29 am

My problem is no sound! I connected my laptop (HP 530 notebook)to my TV with a VGA cable and then I used AV jacks one form the notebook to 2 audio to my TV from the head phone output on my notebook and no sound it cuts the sound from my notebook please help

Carol said on : March 6th, 2008 at 12:32 am

Hi,

I connected my laptop to tv with S video cable and it came out well.But after that whenever i’m using my laptop near the tv(without connected by S video cable), the tv gets automatically switched on and off until the laptop is moved from that place..its getting connected in someway…pls help me to recover this problem.i made the primary setting to be laptop(1 as laptop)..but still the problem exist.

pete said on : March 6th, 2008 at 3:17 am

I have a toshiba laptop and I bought a VGA Cable And when i connected it to my TV it said unsupported connection somthing like that I was wondering If anybody can tell me what am I doing worng

Altafkhan said on : March 11th, 2008 at 6:49 am

I possess Pivillion HP Laptop Model No – DV2401pv & also having Sansui T.v, so i want to connect my laptop with my sansui T.V and i have nothing solution so please give a perticular solution and operate easily my laptop to tv.

Dennis said on : March 12th, 2008 at 3:51 pm

I have an HP Pavilion connected to my Vizio Plasma.

The problem I have is that I get backround or static noise when hooking up the sound. It’s noticiable when watching a movie and even if I just have my desktop showing on the tv screen with the tv sound turned up. I’ve tried several different cables, turned the sound down on the computer, and up on the tv and visa/versa with no luck. Any suggestions?

tizerlas said on : March 14th, 2008 at 7:00 am

i have a fujitsu siemens laptop and im trying to connect it to my tv its a sanyo(not a resent one). is there a cable i can buy to enable me to watch videos from my laptop on my tv. I would appreciate the help plz

Dev Dutta said on : March 15th, 2008 at 9:35 pm

I live in Korea and have a samsung PAVV 40Inch LCD TV.
My HP laptop is not bought Korea though. When I connect my Laptop to the LCD TV using the 16 pin VGA connector I get both the picture and sound, but the colour is all messed up. The laptop monitor colour is normal , but the TV screen colour is pinkish.
What could be the reason and what can I do to get the normal colours on LCD TV screen too. The TV Usere Manual is all in Korean and therefore of no use to me.
Thanks a lot. Your site is great help for info.
Dev Dutta

swenny said on : March 16th, 2008 at 2:27 pm

I have a dell laptop and got it hooked up to my tv to play movies and all was well. The issue I have is, the first time when I did this, the computer screen went back to normal after removing the connection to the tv but the last time I did it and disconnected it from the tv my screen on the laptop remains smaller in tv mode. Any suggestions.

luvmy3kids said on : March 19th, 2008 at 11:21 am

I want to connect my gateway laptop to my protron hdtv – I want to play a ppt. presentation and record it onto DVD using the DVR that is connected to the tv. Can this be done? If so, please explain in detail what I will need. My computer has s-video and VGA plugs.
Thanks!

Suzanne said on : March 22nd, 2008 at 3:55 pm

I have a Acer Aspire 5600 and am trying to hook it up to my Olevia HDTV, but am having nothing but problems…..HRLP ME PLEASE.

I am going VGA to VGA I get a picture but only my screensaver. what am I missing? Even get my mouse pointer on the tv, not my icons just the picture of my screensaver.

I would love any and all help

James said on : March 22nd, 2008 at 7:38 pm

I connected my laptop to my brand new TV that I just bought and I was trying to watch movies off of some sites but when it came…nothing showed:|

Help?!

Zak said on : March 25th, 2008 at 7:49 am

Hi mates.
if u dnt get the picture on the telly, then u have to adjust the resolution in ur laptop/pc. higher resolution wont give the picture but the cursor mark. GOOD LUCK

alex said on : March 26th, 2008 at 7:34 am

Hi, I tried reading through the majority of posts, but did not see my question. Specifically, do you need an HDTV to connect the laptop to. I have a macbook and a regular ol’ Sony TV. Is it possible at all to connect those so the images on my MacBook are shown on the Sony TV? I know nothing about the specific types of cables, so specific as possible would be amazing.

Thanks!

Ceeb said on : March 28th, 2008 at 1:50 pm

I have an HP Pavilion connected to my Vizio Plasma.

“The problem I have is that I get backround or static noise when hooking up the sound. It’s noticiable when watching a movie and even if I just have my desktop showing on the tv screen with the tv sound turned up. I’ve tried several different cables, turned the sound down on the computer, and up on the tv and visa/versa with no luck. Any suggestions?”

This is exactly the same problem Im encountering..especialy when I scroll through websites. It’s seems to be connected with the refresh rate of the monitor. My temporary fix is to turn off the speakers. The regular sound from the PC is fine via a digital connection….except when the TV speakers are activated. I can run games fine, play music, view DVDs…as long as that dang TV speakers are off.

Ajish said on : March 31st, 2008 at 7:25 am

Hey

I have laptop model HP Pavillion dv6285eu and samsung Full HD TV both have VGA port. I connected both using VGA Cable. But after all this I could see only blank screen(back ground light of laptop)connection seems ok with VGA cable, but I couldn’t see any video on TV from laptop. I don’t know what kind of setting do I need to in Laptop. would you please

Ajish

Tri said on : April 1st, 2008 at 3:02 pm

I have connected my laptop to my TV, the only problem i seem to be having is that the the quality on the TV is poor, and Flickers, you can see shadows behind icons, is this just from a poor quality cable!
Any suggestions?
Thanks

kwaku said on : April 1st, 2008 at 10:05 pm

i just bought vga15pin male to male to connect my laptop to my hdtv but it keeps on saying no signal

Strider said on : April 6th, 2008 at 3:35 am

I would like to connect my Presario C700 to my TV. I used a cable with S-video connector(7 pins) on one end and 3 output (2 audio and 1 video) tulip connector on the other end to connect to my TV. However, the TV is not recognised even after I change the settings in the display properties. Do I have to download any driver for the purpose? My system uses a Mobile Intel 965 Express Chipset family.

ahmed said on : April 6th, 2008 at 11:26 am

i connceted my laptop 2 tv,lcd display is ok but no sound from tv i hav connted a wire for sound as well

CP said on : April 10th, 2008 at 3:28 am

Can I conncet my sony laptop to TV through iLink port (IEEE)?

jason said on : April 11th, 2008 at 9:47 pm

how do i get the audio to work

christine said on : April 15th, 2008 at 1:36 pm

I have a Samsung LCD TV and a Dell laptop. I purchased a VGA cable hoping that i would be able to connect my tv to my laptop…. I was wrong.. I have tried to change the resolution and the bit, as well as pressing fn and f8 as well as f12, and nothing seems to work. my tv just goes black and is unresponsive… can someone help??

DINU said on : April 17th, 2008 at 3:41 am

Hw to connect my Fujitsu-Siemens Laptop to TV by s-video.I hope you will send me reaply soon.Thanks for all your helps.

La said on : April 19th, 2008 at 9:14 am

Hi
I own a L40 17s toshiba laptop,with RBG OUT(VGA).And i want to connect it to my 15 inches philips 5 years old tv.The tv has scart IN.I bought the cable(rbg to scart) but it doesn’t work.The laptop finds the tv but there is a black image on the screen.What shall i do?(is there any program i can use?)
thank you (in advance)

kwstantinos karamanlis

leon said on : April 20th, 2008 at 3:39 am

i have a problem:
i have a laptop with only VGA output and a TV with RCA input,
my video card cannot be set to 50Hz refresh rate.

can anybody help me to connect laptop to tv so i can watch there movies?

kris said on : April 21st, 2008 at 12:45 pm

im using the vga option to connect my pc to hd tv, i get the load up screen for about 20seconds then its goes off and a message appears “not in range” i have tried changing the screen size and resolution but theres no change.
any ideas???

Tomtastic said on : April 22nd, 2008 at 5:36 am

Can anyone help me trying to connect my laptop to sony hdtv have the right cables(vga and s-video for sound)but i can’t get it to go to full screen.

akishore said on : April 22nd, 2008 at 9:30 am

Kris, you have to lower the resolution even more. Basically, if your load up screen is showing up and then disappears once Windows starts loading, it’s a resolution issue. Make it even lower and then restart, something like 800×600 and change the refresh rate also.

pete b said on : April 23rd, 2008 at 9:23 am

Hi,iv got a Toshiba laptop and iv just bought a samsung LCD HDTV. i want to watch my movies ive got on my hard-drive on the tv so i bought a DVI to HDMI cable. Now, i can get the computer image on the tv, thats fine, but its when i play the movies (using VLC Media player) that i get no image nor audio, i now know that the DVI-HDMI donsnt carry audio. but why is the VLC window blank. its playing perfectly on the laptop and the tv recognises VLC is playing the movie as the marker showing how far through the movie it is is moving correctly.

any help is massivly appreciated!!

Kutsikas said on : April 29th, 2008 at 4:57 pm

“No computers that I know of yet have HDMI ports” – SURE??? There are tons of laptops with HDMI output!!!! Take HP Pavilion for example!

Randy said on : May 9th, 2008 at 11:25 am

Do any of these options play with audio or do i need seperate audio cables? I’m looking for something in one cable that shows video and plays sound. Whats the best route to go?

Roque V said on : May 15th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

Hey, I have a samsung 42″ plasma tv and im trying to connect a Dell XPS to it using a vga cord…the problem is that when i connect it to my tv it reads that there is a “pc” input on there but then says “no signal” please help me I have been dealing with this for months now! thankyou very much!

Josh said on : May 18th, 2008 at 3:58 pm

Hey i toshiba. I am using a s video cable to connect it to my tv. All i am getting in the background picture of my desktop. No mouse, no nothing. Help please.

arannx said on : May 21st, 2008 at 8:03 pm

Well I was searching the web because my computer has a 7 pin port and my tv has a 4 pin port, well apparently it should do the same thing as a normal cable if you connect a 4 pin cable into a 7 pin port…

Jackie said on : May 23rd, 2008 at 5:54 pm

Hello, I have a dell inspiron 1100 laptop and View Sonic LCD tv. Using s-video to connect. but no graphic show up on tv. tried change seting to 800 x 600 and press Function + F8 key to switch, but the laptop screen blinks to black then return back and no image on tv. please help. thanks!

Marleny said on : May 27th, 2008 at 9:45 pm

I have a DELL INSPIRON 5100 laptop. I purchased a s-video 7 pin rca (red, blue and green) tv connector so I can watch what I watch online (hulu) on tv. I know, I know, I should just get tivo, but this is cheaper. Although, with all the time I spend reading on-line how to set this up, the cost efficiency is decreasing daily.

I just plugged it in, and nothing.

I tried F8 with Fn and it flickers but that’s about it.

I put down the resolution of my laptop and that didnt work either.

- thanks for all your help

chris-e said on : May 29th, 2008 at 2:25 pm

i have a saony vaio new laptop and a toshiba HD TV, LCD and want
ed to connect the PC to the TV wirelessly, is it possible and how can it be done?

thank

chris

garry said on : May 31st, 2008 at 8:19 pm

Help I have a pc hp pavilion and i am trying tyo connect to connect via vga so i purchase a hdmi to dvi cable but my pc does not dvi so i a dvi to vga connector so i plug it now nothing is working someone let me know what do i do ?

need help

vivek said on : June 1st, 2008 at 11:07 pm

I connected my PC with 32″ samsung LCD through VGA cable i got the display on the LCD but the display which was coming on LCD was flicking and band was moving from botton to top, it was looking that as if we are watching monitor or TV through digital camera. try to solve my problem

Prabhakar said on : June 3rd, 2008 at 4:40 am

S-Video to S-Video 4 Pins connecting not working video.
I saw all previous threads, I adjusted all settings like 800×600 and Fn F8..but still not working.
42′ LCD TV and laptop Toshiba both have S-Viodeo ports.
Please suggest me what could be the problem for getting Video from Laptop to TV.

Chelsea said on : June 5th, 2008 at 9:00 pm

I can hook up my laptop to my tv by s-video and I get an image but no sound. I’m not sure how to fix this…

damon said on : June 6th, 2008 at 10:59 pm

I have a sony vaio vgn scz370p laptop (windows xp) and a samsung HP-R4252 42 inch plasma tv. I hooked them up via a vga cable and had it so the tv was mirrored to my laptop. To get to it you would click the “source” button, you pass the source “AV” and should go to one called “pc” but its not there anymore. However, if I restart my computer and click through the sources PC shows up again. But as soon as I click source to watch tv and try to go back to pc its gone unless I reboot my computer, what gives?

Ty said on : June 7th, 2008 at 2:12 pm

Hi
I have s video conection 4pin pc and 4pin Tv
but do not matter 32 bit or 16bit setting i can not see anything on TV can you help Thanks…..

nadia said on : June 7th, 2008 at 4:22 pm

can anybody help me am trying to connect my siemens laptop to my bush lcd32tv022hd with sv cable but nothing is showing on telly.help;

renu said on : June 8th, 2008 at 2:09 am

Hi,

I have a Sony Bravia Tv and also i have a Dell XPS M1330 computer. How to connect both of them together.
Please mail me in my email id : renu_bv@yahoo.co.in
Thanks a lot in advance.

Terri said on : June 8th, 2008 at 1:55 pm

RE…
Naveen said on : January 18th, 2008 at 8:36 pm

i saw a cable on amazon.com that haid a vga input on one end and the three AV connector plugs on the end…the one thats red, white and yellow…its about 7 bucks, but i haven’t tried it yet here’s the link:
http://www.amazon.com/6ft-comp…..amp;sr=8-1

BUT it says………………..
Note: This cable is NOT designed to work in anyway with a computer’s input or output.

JjM said on : June 14th, 2008 at 11:23 am

Sony Vaios have HDMI built in =]

steve said on : June 16th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

M trying to connect my pc to my sony tvKDL-32U3000
.when i take out the lead from my screen and put it in the back of the tv, message on tv saying out of range, can you help.
Steve

Frank said on : June 19th, 2008 at 9:36 am

I had the same problem! My fix was, if you are using windows then once you have the hookup made use F1 and F3 to toggle back and forth between PC and TV. I found this the easiest. You don’t have to go into the settings then.

Matt said on : June 22nd, 2008 at 6:09 pm

I have a PC with PVR with DVI out and S-Video out. Connects normally to my old Sony HD Ready projection TV via S-Video and RCA Audio. When I tried to hook this PVR PC to my new Toshiba Regza 52HL167, the TV doesn’t get any signal from either S-Video, or the new DVI to HDMI cable I just purchased. I’m going to try the VGA next, but I don’t think it will work. Any suggestions?

Off to buy a VGA cable.

Werner said on : June 25th, 2008 at 11:45 am

Hi, I have a laptop and connecting it via a HDMI cable to an 1080p LCD TV. When setting the res to 1080 as a 2nd monitor (the TV that is), the TV flickers (the images appear to move intermittently, only about 2 mm). However bumping the res way down below to 1280 x 768 provides a stable image – Anyone have similar experiences? (The TV rates as Full HD) Crap HDMI cable? (admittedly a no-name cable). Thanks in advance!

RQ007 said on : June 27th, 2008 at 9:06 pm

I bought a cable on ebay, 25ft long, all in one – 3 on one end (red, white, yellow) and the other end is s-video and audio jack. I plugged everything in correctly, Id like to think I did (?), hit the FN & F4 key at the same time, what is on my monitor is now on my tv. I found that you cannot have the movie running first, just have windows desktop showing. Then, if you want to load a movie, just use your mouse, turn on movie from your movie player. So far, I have gotten the movie to load this way.

My problem is no sound. I still have the sound coming out of my laptop speakers. I have tried to change the audio settings so it does not play through laptop speakers and goes through headphone plug, where audio plug is plugged in, but still no sound coming out of tv.

What am I missing? Is there perhaps another FN key or something that will send the audio out too?

RQ007 said on : June 28th, 2008 at 12:02 am

I tried to post another comment so if this is a duplicate – sorry.

After trying and trying here is what I came up with to get my sound to work. If you have speakers plugged into your laptop, unplug them. I had a speaker plugged into my usb port, and had the wire plugged from tv to headset jack – as soon as I unplugged my usb speaker, the sound went to the television.

Hope this helps!

Nat said on : July 4th, 2008 at 5:41 am

l have sony vaio, it has s video and avg on it however my tv has only got scart and hdmi cables,

any help on how to connect them

magma said on : July 9th, 2008 at 12:43 am

my dad has a dell laptop that isnt anything too great and a 47″ VIZIO with 1080dpi (full HD) and he hooked it up with just a VGA cable and set the tv on RGB mode and it work fantistically! the resolution was great, no blur….crystal clear so im going out and buying a tv to hook up my laptop…if it worked for him itl work for me!

PD Dingo said on : July 12th, 2008 at 1:19 pm

The DV9xxx line of HP notebooks has a HDMI output, alongside with S-Video and VGA.

Nancy said on : July 14th, 2008 at 9:33 pm

I’m trying to connect my laptop to a Fujitsu HDTV monitor using a VGA cable. I get an image of the laptop’s screen on the TV monitor, but it’s only in black and white. What do I need to do to get color? Any help would be appreciated!

Thanks.

Luis said on : July 18th, 2008 at 11:12 pm

How can i do for connect a Lenovo Laptop to a Sangsum TV by VGA cable. I traying to connect it but the PC option on The TV is Daable (Grayed). how can i do for active it?. I saw somthing about the resolution but i was trying with derefent values with acvhive the goal !!!

alfredo said on : July 19th, 2008 at 6:52 pm

I have a question. I have a laptop, HP PAVILLION XT118
tried the S-cable and it did not work. have an HD Westinghouse TV. Any advice.
THanks

jm said on : July 24th, 2008 at 7:08 am

is there such a cable that has VGA and RC cables on it???

angry said on : July 25th, 2008 at 1:53 am

I have a dell inspiron e1505. i’m connecting to a sony wega 55″ lcd projection t.v. using vga->vga/hdmi adaptor -> hdmi cord-> hdmi slot on back of t.v.

have everything connect correctly. on the channel for inputing hdmi and when i press fn + f8 or even select if manually from the properties -> settings tab. Nothing pops up. my computer screen will flicker but only when i select manually. nothing happens when i push fn + f8. any ideas?

angry said on : July 29th, 2008 at 9:26 pm

i have that currently set up but i wanting better quality and possibly larger text on my screen…right now its hard to read from about 6 ft away. any ideas?

Larry said on : July 31st, 2008 at 5:29 am

I have recently bought a 37″ Daewoo lcd tv and am looking to connect my hp 530 laptop to it. i have tried using a vga to vga cable, the picture appears but is in a green/yellow mode. i went to a local computer stored and he advised me to buy a vga to dvi connector along with a dvi to hdmi lead, i then connected these to the laptop and pc with no avail. Does any1 have any suggestions as to where im going wrong? i think the problem may be that the signal from the vga is analog and dvi is digital. is this correct and if so how do i fix this?

Thanks for your help.

jo said on : August 2nd, 2008 at 8:09 pm

hi every body i have samusung hd tv 42″ i need to attch my acer laptop but i cant i buy s video but no ibuy avi but no i am not getting any thing on tv but on laptop all comand s says its ok so p[lease help me or u can mail me to jo2jean@yahoo.ca thanks

mary said on : August 5th, 2008 at 7:33 am

hi,

ive tried the audio cable suggested with the headphone jack on both sides but i cant seem to find where to plug it on my tv, it seems like its too large for any rgb inputs ? is there any other way ? or am i getting something wrong ?

any suggestions would be appreciated! thanks!

Quan said on : August 5th, 2008 at 10:31 pm

Hello, I tried to connect my PC to Toshiba 37′ LCD (Full HD) via using HDMI. both of them have HDMI in/out connection. I am wondering how to set up LCD TV and the PC? Thank you very much
http://www.toshibaav.com.au/ma.....Manual.pdf

usi said on : August 9th, 2008 at 1:15 pm

hi, i connect my toshiba laptop with sony hdready tv and its only showing the background picture on the tv nothing else is comming any sugestions thanks

Caesi said on : August 9th, 2008 at 9:15 pm

How do you get your laptop to pick up cable – when there is a cable connector, but no TV? Is it possible?

James said on : August 11th, 2008 at 6:08 pm

Hiya
my pc is hooked up to my tv n works fine
however, now n again it stops (no signal) for a few seconds n then is restored by vista
sometimes it even stops the whole pc/tv and monitor with a *no signal* sign n i have to reboot, do i need a driver??
any help wud be fantasic
thank you

andrew said on : August 13th, 2008 at 1:29 pm

Well this sucks, got a new laptop, VGA port, but I can’t plug it into my television cause it isn’t that new (4 years old or so?)

yuri said on : August 15th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

Actually the fn + f4 works for me, using a s-video

Nate said on : August 15th, 2008 at 7:43 pm

Thanks so much for the great advice. Just hooked up my laptop to my LG HDTV and it looks great. special thanks to akishore, really helped me out.

Leigh-Ann said on : August 18th, 2008 at 11:56 am

Hi-my question is:

I want to play the TV shows I download on itunes on my Television. My TV isn’t anything great. It just has the red, yellow and white plugs. Is there something I can buy that will connect the two? My laptop is a PC, not a MAC. I don’t know that much about computers/tv’s so please keep that in mind in your explanation.
Thanks!

John said on : August 18th, 2008 at 1:31 pm

Hi!
can I use the VGA cable to connect my laptop to a “normal” digital tv (not a HDTV)? ( my tv has just the normal imputs “red” “white” and “yellow” )
my email is rammstier@hotmail.com
thanks!

Sam said on : August 18th, 2008 at 5:40 pm

i’ve connected my laptop to my samsung hd lcd t.v via a vga cable…it did work first time perfectly now it will connect for like 5 seconds then the t.v makes a click noise and the t.v goes black….whats going on?

Zahid said on : August 19th, 2008 at 1:46 pm

Hi,
I am having problem connection PC with Samsung 26″ TV via VGA cable, here I am not able to switch to PC mode. Do I require TV tuner card for the same, can any one advice me please. thanks a lot in advance

ac said on : August 21st, 2008 at 1:25 pm

I connected my Latitude D-350 with My Samsung 42 inch dlp using S vedio.. the desktop screen comes on tv.. I am able bring the mouse point on tv when it goes out of the lap top.. but the desk top nemu.. etc. does not show.. also when I open my pictures etc.. they show on the lap top screen but do not show on the TV screen, which keep showing the laptop screen saver..

sapan said on : August 22nd, 2008 at 8:28 am

hi guys, i have a lenovo Y500. i want to connect my laptop to tv through s-video but it just doesnt work. my tv doent have a s video in so its a 3RCA S-VIDEO CORD. plzzz guys help me out and yup im not a techi so plzzzzzz try and reply in simple languages. plzzz plzzz help me out.
thanks,
sapan

Fred said on : August 22nd, 2008 at 8:53 pm

I basically had the same question on the best way to connect my laptop to my HDTV. I subscribe to a newsletter from Diamond Case Designs, Inc. and they recently covered this topic. Good info and lots of pictures, maybe will help some of you. You can check it out at:

http://www.diamondcase.com/Kno.....On_TV.HTML

Hope it helps.

mp said on : August 27th, 2008 at 7:39 pm

i connected my vga cable to my laptop and hdtv but when i put my tv on pc mode it says “no rgb signal the power will be turned off” any suggestions ?

ISABEL NOZES said on : August 28th, 2008 at 4:42 am

Hello everybody,

To have audio and video at same same on tv (digital one) you just have to connect the cable vga male/vga male to your computer and to the Tv ( PC In – see details of your tv on manual specifications).
For the audio is the same, you need a audio cable 3,5jack/3,5jack and connect it to your computer ( on the sound green ) and to your Tv on the audio for PC next to the vga cable.
Dont use the audio-in red and white because those are only for AV source (ex. a camera)
I hope have help you to have your tv as a pc monitor for games or surfing the net.

regards
isa

Noel said on : August 30th, 2008 at 8:17 pm

Hi, I have an Alienware Area 51 and it has its own HDMI port, so I hooked up my HMDI cable that I had for my DVD player to my flat screen. It fits in my laptop and the tv however it is not working. I pressed the on button on my laptop…I want to watch movies on my big flat screen so if you could help me that would be great…

ronnie said on : September 2nd, 2008 at 2:06 am

i have a gateway ml3109 and my screen is completely broken. i did all the steps to connect to my hdtv using vga cable and i couldnt not make it work. my laptop is password protected but since the screen is broken, i cant log in. does this matter?

Mallesh said on : September 8th, 2008 at 12:36 pm

I have LG R400 series notebook and i could connect the S-Vedio out to TV (RCA). I could get the display on the TV but in black and white……without colour and also i am not getting audio on the TV set. My S-Vedio card is 7 pin jack.

Kindly advice to obtain colour display and audio on the TV.

daniel said on : September 10th, 2008 at 5:36 pm

Hi, i have just bought a vga to rca cable. should this be working if i put the vga on my laptop and rca to the tv?
my tv doesn’t have s-video input. i thought this would work, but when i test it on my tv, nothing come up on the component ‘channel’. am i missing something? thank you.

Ali said on : September 12th, 2008 at 5:19 am

I have a Panasonic Plasma HDTV and a DELL XPS Laptop which has a HDMI output , and it has its own HDMI port, so I hooked up my HMDI cable that I had for my DVD player to my flat screen. It fits in my laptop and the tv however it is not working. I pressed the on button on my laptop…I want to watch movies on my big flat screen so if you could help me that would be great…

S Erdogan said on : September 13th, 2008 at 12:19 am

I want to connect my laptop (Dell Inspiron 640m) to an old analog TV with an S-video cable. The TV does not have an S-video input. The TV is connected to a VCR, a DVD player and to a digital converter, so it is a little complicated. But they all are connected and can work.My DVD player has an S-video output and I tried to make the connection from that but I couldn’t get any display on TV screen. Do you have any idea how I can add also my laptop to this already crowded system?

Peter said on : September 13th, 2008 at 10:59 am

When I connect my laptop to the TV, the picture on the TV is extremely large and only shows the (enlarged) center of my laptop screen. Of course, when I want to view a program, i can only the the center portion on the TV while the picture on the laptop is normal. Any suggestions?

shebly said on : September 13th, 2008 at 10:04 pm

i’ve get a sumsung lcd 32 inch and hp pavillion dv6000 runing on vista

and i get a vga cable and it’s not detected on the lcd at all
any guiding steps available???!!!!!

tom said on : September 14th, 2008 at 5:53 pm

how do i get the sound from my tv when i hook my pc

Chic said on : September 15th, 2008 at 3:20 pm

Hi,
I have the VGA cable on the laptop to my Sony HDTV and I am tring to put my desktop from my laptop to my TV.
HELP
Chic

anonymous said on : September 19th, 2008 at 11:07 pm

I just got a new hdtv and it came with a vga and sound cable. I tried to connect my laptop to it, but nothing happens and my laptop works normally. There is no picture or sound on the tv.

RICH said on : September 20th, 2008 at 5:47 am

I’ve got vga on my laptop but not s-video, but no vga on my tv. I wondered if someone could tell me the best way to connect my laptop to my tv?

Amy said on : September 20th, 2008 at 9:07 am

Hi
trying to get the laptop connected to the TV however it wont work. Got the VGA cable plugged into both the LT and the TV but its only gets as far as showing me the computer setting up then the screen goes blank? any ideas?

keli said on : September 20th, 2008 at 4:35 pm

hello everybody
I have a sony vaio p.c.with vista windows and a sony wega tv .I am trying to conect them throwgh a vga cable ,puting the tv on p.c, mode but nothing happend.Is any regulation i should do to the p.c?
Thank you from greece,keli.

John Smith said on : September 20th, 2008 at 11:38 pm

How to get the best audio and video if I am connecting my computer to my tv? My computer only has a vga and dvi-d connection. my tv on the other hand has a composite, s-vdeo,component, and dvi-d connections.

Srinivasan said on : September 21st, 2008 at 9:05 pm

I have Gateway M-Series Laptop which has VGA 15 output. I connected the laptop to my LCD TV(LG) using VGA to S-Vedio (4pin) connector and S-vedio (Female to Female) to the TV.
I was able to change the display settings to show the desktop to external display screen. But my TV screen says no signal.
Does the VGA output need special driver to show on TV screen?
Please let me know if anyone knows.
Regards.
Srini.

Yiannis said on : September 22nd, 2008 at 4:31 am

Hi, Im tryin to connect my laptop to my tv using an S-Video to Scart cable, but the pisture on the TV is coming up as Black and White.

Any suggestions??

Bob said on : September 27th, 2008 at 6:12 am

I have a42 inch maxent plasma. I have tried to hook both a dell and gateway laptop to it and have to drag icons over to tv. Only windows xp info opens on tv. I am using a vga cable.

Mokuton said on : September 28th, 2008 at 1:28 pm

My TV (probably old) doesn’t have any of the above inputs. Mine uses the 3 cables (video, left audio, right audio)
http://www.dgkale.com/UploadFi.....625987.jpg

And then it has like an input where you put the antenna cable (it has like a needle), maybe it’s coaxial?.

Sorry, I live in a third world country. How would I connect my computer that has HDMI, and S-Video (7 pin) to that TV?

abhi said on : October 1st, 2008 at 7:09 am

well..u can also use s-video 4/7 pins to rca 3 pin cords. its just one single cord to connect ur pc to tv for both audio and video..
screen resolution shud be 800 x 600..

http://www.svideo.com/compaq1700.html

reynolds said on : October 3rd, 2008 at 12:53 am

I have the same problem……I used a VGA cable connected to my Phillipp HDTV from my laptop. The message shows no signal detected. I follow instruction set it to 60Hz on the laptop, it still deos not work. What settign do I have to shcnage on my graphic display in control panel of my Dell laptop?

Any advise appreciated.

Reynolds said on : October 3rd, 2008 at 12:56 am

I have the a problem……I used a VGA cable connected to my Phillipp HDTV from my laptop. The message shows no signal detected. I follow instruction set it to 60Hz on the laptop, it still deos not work. What settign do I have to shcnage on my graphic display in control panel of my Dell laptop?

Any advice appreciated.

Tiara said on : October 4th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

S.O.S
I have a HP pavillion zt1130 and I would like to connect a cable to my samsung hdtv so I can watch YouTube videos on the tv monitor. Suggestions? By the way I am computer illiterate.

Aleksandra said on : October 4th, 2008 at 3:34 pm

Please,
If you can explain to me what I need to do in order to play DVD movies from lap top in TV. I have VGA cable, 15 pins, 2 males, and I did connection, but I don’t know what is necessary to do in order to see video in the big screen. I thought it is gonna play DVD in the same channel as DVD player, but is not the case.Tell me what to do when I connect Lap top VGA cable with TV.
Thank in advance

KKT said on : October 8th, 2008 at 12:01 am

i have connected my laptop to my tv with the “s” cable but cannot see any picture or sound. is there a seeting on my computer i need to set or turn on? any suggestions?

Mackenzie said on : October 10th, 2008 at 4:34 pm

I tried connecting my computer to my hdtv using a vga cable. My tv says no single when i turn on my computer. The only time
it works is when in safe mode. Any help?

Rewi McQueen said on : October 11th, 2008 at 6:46 am

Hi,

First of all, this is a great how-to explanation! Especially with the pics.

I have connected my laptop and tv with a VGA, and the screen comes out perfect. However, the sounds doesnt come through the TV… Do I need a seperate cord for this, or is the VGA cord suppose to send sounds signals through also?

Please advise!

Rewi

Chandra said on : October 11th, 2008 at 8:30 am

Those of you who are struggling to get audio sound but are still searching for right cables that connect their incompatible lap tops and TVs, I have found a solution. I connected my laptop headphone to a small home FM transmitter that can be bought for about $20 and now I tune the audio in FM Radio.While I am still searching for the correct cable this method helps me to watch movies and videos from my laptop/pC on any TV that can be connected to my PC/Laptop. I use the same transmitter to play music in my car from my Ipod. At home all of us can hear the audio in FM radio and cell phones with radio when I play music from my laptop or Ipod. I found this to be the cheapest solution!

Jeremy said on : October 15th, 2008 at 2:57 pm

How do you connect a tv with no vga port (but has a svideo port) to a laptop with no svideo port (but has a vga port)???
And then how do you get sound???

vicky said on : October 19th, 2008 at 3:24 pm

i have sony laptop and i want to connect to sharp aquos tv.
i have tried vga connection but on tv screen arrive always out of range.i did tried fn and all the keys but it does not work.pl help me.

Dustin said on : October 23rd, 2008 at 12:10 pm

Thanks This Was The Best help So Far Out Of All The Sites I’v Seen!

Barbara said on : October 23rd, 2008 at 12:12 pm

How to connect your Laptop/PC/Computer to your TV
i have a Dell Inspirion 1525 and a Hitachi 57″ hdtv I got picture working with a HDMI to DVI cable but no sound tried a y-adapter audio cable I want sound to come from tv speakers is there another cable I can use was told to plug cable into headphone spot on laptop not sure where on hdtv setting confusing need help

Ari said on : October 27th, 2008 at 11:18 am

Is there a cable VGA to HTMI ? i’m trying to connect my laptop that has VGA to my tv that has HDMI.

moodie said on : October 27th, 2008 at 9:14 pm

ok my laptop has a vga cable hook up but im not linking it to an hdtv will it still work with just a regular tv…its just cuz i fucked my laptop screen and only half of it is visible….let me know

Don said on : October 29th, 2008 at 8:54 am

I have a 42″ Toshiba LCD TV, with HDMI ports( 4 to be exact) and a Toshiba Laptop with a HDMI Port, when i connect to each other i get a unsupported Video Signal problem, any suggestions or anyone know what is happening?

thanks

Dan said on : November 10th, 2008 at 2:51 pm

Hi
I have just paid for a SVGA cable to connect my laptop to my tv now it works perfectly for about 30seconds and then refreshes and then connects again and keeps doing this over and over again and this gets kinda (VERY) annoying when trying to watch a film or try to show powerpoints!
HELP PLEASE

Ravikiran said on : November 11th, 2008 at 7:01 am

I am having a lenovo T-61 laptop, it does not have S video out pin, it has got only vga out and USB out. I want to connect my laptop to a TV which is a CRT TV which has RCA pins as input. I am not able to get to know how do I connect my laptop to my TV. I purchased a USB to RCA cable and tried to connect my laptop to my TV, but it was all in vain, it did not connect.Kindly advice how do I connect my laptop to my TV- CRT old model

Dan Mac said on : November 12th, 2008 at 12:54 pm

Hi,
I recently bought a HDTV that did not have one of the blue VGA ports on the back. So i bought a VGA to YPbPr lead and tried to plug my laptop into my TV that way however my TV says that there is no signal. Can anybody help?

Thanks

Ngupta said on : November 12th, 2008 at 11:21 pm

hi, just would like to put this out there, but a 7 pin s-vid 2 4 pin s-vid does work…this is because when u put in the 4 pins the 3 missing ones are filled up for…so just buy urself an s-video cable (4 pin 2 4 pin and make sure ur laptop and tv hav an s-vide port)…try it

jack said on : November 13th, 2008 at 1:42 am

I had hook hdmi from tv to my computer dvi. It show picture but no sound. I brought the 3.5mm Mini-Stereo Male to Two RCA Male Speaker Cable to connect to both pc and tv. Its still don’t work. I hook on green in pc and hook both rca to tv under hdmi in. still don’t work. How to configure my computer to sent sound to tv. I look on the tv manual and I connect all the cable the right way

mairaj said on : November 13th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

hi.. i have a HP 2000 windows and i have a sony digital tv but i cant locate the S cable on my computer but i see it n my TV. how do i use with other method.

John said on : November 14th, 2008 at 8:41 pm

I am attempting to hook my PC to my TV (analog) via VGA to RCA cable. When I plug in the cable and turn on the television there are 3 visuals of my desktop in black and white and it also scrolls from top to bottom like its getting bad reception. I have messed with the resolution and color settings to no avail. Can someone give me more ideas?
Thanks, John

Vivian said on : November 15th, 2008 at 6:34 am

I have a laptop and I just bought a LCD TV and the VGA cord to attach the two. How do I get the TV to show what’s on my computer? I tried FN and F8 but nothing happens.Please help!! Thanks, Vivian

eyab said on : November 15th, 2008 at 9:00 am

I’m trying to connect my laptop to a Daewoo TV monitor using a VGA cable. I get an image of the laptop’s screen on the TV monitor, but it’s only in black and white. What do I need to do to get color? Any help would be appreciated! LG F1

Thanks.
eyab

Mansoor said on : November 16th, 2008 at 1:08 pm

I recently connected my pc to my 32″ lcd tv using vga cable i have a nvidia graphic card i dont get a clear picture on my tv even though i have up to date software and driver please help my solve this problem

Anu said on : November 18th, 2008 at 10:28 am

I have hooked up my laptop to sony HDTV W series with a VGA cable. But the screen on TV is not full screen. I seee the computer screen in the middle.. Is there anyway I can make this image full screen. As now it covers very little of my 46″ screen. So I am not able to see stuff from my computer on the big screen. Thanks for ur help.

geraldz said on : November 18th, 2008 at 8:21 pm

1. If you have a new laptop with HDMI, this is your best bet. It is a digital signal and includes both audio and video. You can buy these cables at WalMart.

2. DVI is also a digital signal but it does not have audio. You will have to purchase a separate audio cable.

3. VGA/SGVA is probably your best bet. Although it is an analog signal, it provides very high quality high-definition video. Most VGA/SVGA cables don’t include audio, except for a specialty PC to HDTV cable sold by PCTVCables.com. On HDTVs, this is usually called “pc input.”

4. S-video and composite video cables only carry standard-definition quality video. And you’ll need a separate audio cable. I have found that a 4-pin s-video cable will work even if the jack on your computer has 7 pins.

Gil said on : November 18th, 2008 at 11:24 pm

hi – we were having trouble getting a picture on my PC when connected via VGA to an HDTV – there were some suggestions earlier, but what worked for us was:

*change the resolutions on the PC (600×800) and then hit FN/F7

worked for us!

geraldz said on : November 23rd, 2008 at 10:04 am

Gil – the VGA/SVGA cable will usually detect your HDTV because it carries the EDID (“plug and play”).
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E.....ation_data

According to Intel, your graphics controller will allow you to select the highest resolution that is available on both your PC and HDTV.
http://support.intel.com/suppo.....022544.htm

Ioanna said on : November 28th, 2008 at 4:03 am

hello,
i have connected my laptop with Tv but i get black and white screen how can i resolve the issue.i am connected through s video-Cable,can some one help?
Regards,

John Graham said on : November 29th, 2008 at 3:12 pm

okay so i have the cables to hook my laptop up to my TV, but is there a way u can record tv using this?

Sam said on : November 30th, 2008 at 8:36 pm

I have a HDTV that has the S-video, HDMI connections. The laptop only has the VGA connection. How can I connect my laptop to my TV.

wayne said on : December 2nd, 2008 at 2:46 pm

hi,

i have a dell inspiron laptop which has a hdmi port. i have connected fine to my big samsung tv at home and get a fantastic picture to watch movies etc, but when at my girlfriends trying to connect to a 26″ lg tv doesnt seem to be so great and doesnt fit the screen etc, any ideas on what to do? thanks

Hayden said on : December 2nd, 2008 at 5:33 pm

Hi. Not being a naysayer or anything, but my friend bought a laptop from Wal-Mart for $400 that had a HDMI port in it. Might want to revise that a little bit.

Jack said on : December 4th, 2008 at 9:13 pm

Hello Everybody!!!

I’m trying to connect a desktop PC to 36in LCD TV. I tried to use a splitter “Y” female to two male outputs the TV worked fine, but unfortunately my PC monitor was blurry and lost a little brightness. (I think that the signal was lost because it’s not very strong and two screens are too much).
Also, one of my friends said that I can damage one of the screens by using a VGA splitter.

I want to buy a VGA PCI video card with one VGA output, but some people say that it wouldn’t work because the PC would recognize only one video card either on-board or installed PCI video card. The only way to do this is to get a dual VGA PCI card, but it is a little expensive with the comparison to single VGA video card and I already have one on-board video card for one screen and if I buy another single VGA would it work? By the way I’m also using 25ft long extension cable from my PC to the LCD TV screen. I haven’t tried connection audio 3.5MM cable but eventualy I will. My main problem is how to connect PC to TV? and my question is – I already have a video card in my PC (I hope I do) and if I buy a single VGA PCI video card would I be able to view both screens or not? Is my computer would recognize both on-board video card and newly installed VGA PCI video card??? I’m confused:(

If anyone knows how to solve this please let me know!!!

PLEASE HELP!!!

THANKS

mike angel said on : December 5th, 2008 at 3:01 pm

Hi im having this weird problem
i have everything set up but the screen says NOT SUPPORTED FORMAT,, what should i do?? Help..

thanks!
i would really appreciated!
-mike

sam said on : December 8th, 2008 at 11:54 pm

my keyboard does not have the function key how can I connect my computer to the TV without it?

By the way I only have a VGA cable

Edward said on : December 9th, 2008 at 9:21 pm

Very helpful. I knew what cables I needed just didn’t know what they were called so your photos really helped. I’ve only just got use to scart leads lol

M. Waqar said on : December 11th, 2008 at 6:09 am

I have PC and Older LG TV how can i connect my pc to a simple older tv.

Srinivas said on : December 19th, 2008 at 10:42 pm

I have bought VGA to HD cable – VGA\RCA-12 (Component Red Green Blue).
I am not able to connect my PC to HD TV. any help appreciated.
Thanks

Santhosh kumar said on : December 23rd, 2008 at 5:06 pm

Hi,
I recently bought a VGA to composite cable to connect my mac ibook laptop to my old SONY tv. My Tv doesnt recognize my laptop, the image is fuzzing and cant see anything clearly. i have tried to change the resolution on the computer but to no success. Any help is appreciated

Jordan said on : December 25th, 2008 at 3:52 pm

I have a Dell Inspiron 2200 Laptop and have recently purchased a samsung LCD 19 TV.

I was kindly wondering which cables are needed for me to operate my laptop via my new TV.

My laptop has 1 VGA port as far as I know, and my samsung television has a PC IN connection, DVI IN, S-VIDEO port, and some various other red,white and yellow ports.

I am not in a whiz in the slighest when it comes to these tech situations and was wondering what the cheapest solution is to my situation, in hooking my laptop to TV successfully.

Any ideas will be greatly appreciated in terms of what I should purchase.

Thanks

Jake said on : December 27th, 2008 at 1:26 pm

Hi im jake, i have and hdmi, cable it works perfectly with my sharp aquos television. Except the audio, wont swtich to the tv. it still uses my Computers speakers

oalv said on : December 31st, 2008 at 2:30 pm

thank you for the great tips. connected my samsung ln-s2641d to my dell laptop easily. thanks again!

geraldz said on : January 1st, 2009 at 9:54 pm

You can get answers to all of your PC to TV questions:

PCTVCables.com

Debbie said on : January 6th, 2009 at 7:54 pm

Is it possible to hookup your laptop to the tv through your dvd player? My tv doesn’t have s-video but my dvd player does. I thought there might be a way to hook it up through the dvd player since I have hooked up a vcr or stereo system to my tv that way before.

Nag said on : January 9th, 2009 at 12:04 am

Hi i am trying to connect my PC to sony bravia L series through RGB input.Yesterday it worked properly but today we try to connect it is saying that no pc singal.

can anybody suugest me on this.Thanks in advance

Lyndsey said on : January 11th, 2009 at 3:59 pm

hi i recently got told to buy VGA (Male) to DVI (Female) Adapter by a friend. then i went to a computer shop and they told me to buy the DVI male to male cable. they told me to plus adapter into the tower attach the dvi into the adapter and into the tv. i have a phillips HD Ready flat screen crystal clear III tv. i have already spent over 50 pound and it still aint working. i feel like through the whole thing outta the window. plz can u help me

Radwan said on : January 12th, 2009 at 12:10 am

I plugged my laptop to monitor using VGA card. Everything was working fine. I can see pictures, open programs. But the problem is that I can see videos from youtube but any videos opened using windows media player are not appearing on the monitor. So can you tell what do you think is the problem?

Hemi said on : January 12th, 2009 at 3:59 am

i have an HP media center pc and when i hook it up to my hdtv through vga it works at first but eventually the screen goes blank and says no signal. ????????what to do??????

Raj said on : January 13th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

Your best bet to get an awesome picture quality will be VGA to HDMI cable about 1.8m max to connect your laptop to HDTV. I bought it on eBay for $8.00 (includes shipping from Hong Kong). I’d highly recomment to download divx.com on your laptop.

mel said on : January 14th, 2009 at 9:00 am

i am trying to connect my Acer laptap with my 19″ samsung . but everytime i type something my tv truns off. iwent to the control panel and changed my settion and the colour . but nothing

joann said on : January 17th, 2009 at 11:35 pm

I connect my laptop to Sumsang LCD TV. It only displys laptop’s desktop screen. What should I do to get the screen I am working on?

Angie said on : January 18th, 2009 at 4:46 pm

I hooked up the computer to my tv. but the only picture that is showing is my background picture, it will not play anything, or allow me to use it as a secondary monitor, what am I doing wrong? What is on my tv is definetly not what I’m veiwing on my laptop. Help please

Abdullah said on : January 21st, 2009 at 12:48 am

I have Sony XBR6 46″ 1080p HDTV, Win XP sytem, wiht Geforce 8500 GT Video card, and DVI to HDMI cable 15ft long. I am trying to connect my my desktop to TV. The VGA cable connection to TV works and while VGA connected the VDI to HDMI to same TV connection works. but when VGA disconnected and only DVI to HDMI connection to TV the desktop keeps rebooting and does not go into windows at all.. Please help me.
I had a power supply of 350watts and upgraded to 600watts due to the fact I am running 2 hard drive, one multi burner, and PCI express video cards.

Thank you,

Abdullah

Abi said on : January 21st, 2009 at 4:38 pm

Hi Joann and Angie

I had the same problem but then I right clicked on my desktop and chose output to, monitor (knowing that monitor meant my tv as I’d already set it up and done all the resolution adjustments). This was after 2 hours and a chat with my dad.

Does that help?

Abi said on : January 21st, 2009 at 4:49 pm

Edited to add:
Right click desktop, desktop, graphics options, output to, monitor

I didn’t say graphics options in the previous post.

greg said on : January 22nd, 2009 at 1:32 am

i am trying to use a vga to hdmi cable…when i plug the vga into the computer and the hdmi output into the tv the tv recognizes the hdmi but the screen is blue…any suggestions???

Mike Insole said on : January 27th, 2009 at 3:46 pm

I have a toshiba hd ready tv and a sony vaio laptop that has blu and a hdmi port. I connect the tv and the laptop together and the picture comes up perfectly on the tv screen but the audio completly shguts out altogether, both the laptop and the tv. I have even connected a stereo player to the laptop and still there is no sound. In my sound settings it shows the hdmi connection as working properly and the noise/sound bar moves accordingly to the video i am watching but i still cannot hear anything! Does ANYBODY know what i can do i would really appreciate the help! thanks

faith said on : January 31st, 2009 at 1:49 pm

I have a vga cable both male and attached it from my laptop to hdtv that has hdmi port, the cable fit the hdmi port but I don’t know what keys to turn from my laptop so I can watch watch the video from my laptop to hdtv. Where do I find the FN key it all shows f1 f2 f3 f4 etc. Can I use that vga cable to hdmi port? Please help.

Thanks.

Steve said on : January 31st, 2009 at 9:34 pm

Is there anyway to connect my desktop to my television using an RCA cable? I think that’s what I have. It’s the yellow, red, and white cable.
I have an older television that only has ports for the yellow, red, and white. I have s-video, dvi, and vga connections on my computer though.

Nissy said on : February 7th, 2009 at 7:31 am

I have no problems connecting my samsung tv to my dell laptop, works great, except when i plug in the power cord into the laptop. The TV screen goes black and white and starts jumping?
Anything i am missing\?

Michael said on : February 8th, 2009 at 7:36 pm

I was trying to hook my computer to my new HDTV, I was told to buy a DVI to HDMI cable, I went to the store and picked up a DVI-D to HDMI I connected it and I get an image but is not good at all, it has some kind of green stripes on the screen. Could it be becuase is a DVI-D? Does that have anything to do with it? Whats the difference bewteen DVI-D and DVI?
If anyone knows, I would aprreciate your help.
Thanks

April said on : February 12th, 2009 at 1:16 pm

My Laptop is HMDI but my tv is S Video. I tried to buy a HMDI DVD player and hook it up that way, but it didnt work because both my computer and the DVD Player are both OUT’s.

Any Ideas? besides get a new TV… I tried that one. Husband said NO.

Thanks

Nothing said on : February 13th, 2009 at 5:51 pm

Ok I have a problem with connecting my computer to my T.V. My computer has a VGA connection port but my T.V. doesn’t, and my computer doesn’t have an S Video port but my T.V. does.

I didn’t want to get into buying anything too expensive since I probably won’t be using it very often. Would there be a way o connect my computer to my T.V. through my DVD player or a VCR? (neither of which have a VGA connection port.)

Thanks I appreciate any help you could offer

Inshaf said on : February 14th, 2009 at 6:53 am

Hi,

I ve got a Asus VGA card and I ve got a HDTV cable and Its Rounded top cannot be plugged into a because the tv input is also a rounded 1. My tv is a LG 21 inch Flatron.

If anyone can help it would be very grateful

Thnks

AFI said on : February 15th, 2009 at 12:10 pm

Fantastic advice. Thanks

Dennis said on : February 16th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

Hello there, I am having trouble connecting my Compaq R4000 to my LCD TV. When I connect the LCD picks up my laptop signal but when I try to play a movie the TV goes black in the center. I connected my laptop via VGA. Any help would be helpful and appreciated thank you

bijul said on : February 20th, 2009 at 2:54 am

Great article, very useful Thank you

VerY Computer illiterate said on : February 20th, 2009 at 3:26 am

Thank You very nuch! I found that these questions and answers had helped me with my question. Thnx everyone for your import and tips!

CAlVlBO said on : February 24th, 2009 at 2:04 pm

if your pc/laptop is not equipped with dvi output you can get vga to dvi adapter. just connect it to your vga on pc connect dvi to hdmi cable to adapter and tv. this is the problem i ran into since my pc doesnt have dvi output. the cable and adapter cost about $60. dont be fooled by the stores that will tell you that you need to buy an adapter that costs about $150 plus the cable cost on top of that.

Mervyn said on : February 27th, 2009 at 7:35 am

I have the following:
IBM PC, Winfast PX8400 dual monitor card, Sony FWD-40LX2F montor, VGA cable with DVI adaptor.
If I connect the Sony monitor at 800×600/60 then it displays but flashes every 3 seceonds.
It sometimes display this message: Not Supported Signal.

Anyone who can tell me how to stop it from flickering?

Thanks.

Carlos said on : March 13th, 2009 at 2:36 am

Hello,

I have a VGA(15 pin) output on my notebook and I have an HDTV but it only has an odd shaped USB(not standard) and component/audio video input/output ports for stereo/video game etc…what do you recommend. I was gonna try circuit city, radio shack etc..but I need some advice before I spend alot of money on something that I dont need.

Los

Kelly said on : March 15th, 2009 at 6:53 pm

Hey,
I have tried to connect my LG HDTV to my Dell laptop, I have connected everything and tried every suggestion that was listed above but on my tv screen it keeps displaying the word “invalid format” what is that i have done wrong or have to do to work this out.
thanks

Jeffery said on : March 22nd, 2009 at 7:40 pm

I hooked up my Laptop to my 61″ JVC TV and I get a great picture and all but the Picture is not utilizing the whole screen, there is about 1 inch missing from Top,Right,Left Bottom, Is there a way to fix that so It shows up on the whole 61″ Screen?

Tony said on : March 24th, 2009 at 8:02 pm

ok i got everything going, but theres no sound comeing from my TV (samsung LCD) only my laptop..? HELP!

Zoe said on : March 31st, 2009 at 10:28 pm

Help!!

I got my tv to show whatever’s playing on my labtop, but it’s in black and white. I tried to change the setting on my labtop and tv. Nope, still black and white. Anyone, know what i need to do to get my colors back….

Thank you soooo very much.

good said on : April 1st, 2009 at 7:39 am

i have compaq presario desktop with realtex(R) 82845 G graphic controller and i want to connect it to sharp analouge TV. My computer have VGA and my TV has Composite (red yellow and white). Now I got a cable for connection but there is no picture . Please help me through this process.

Iftekar said on : April 1st, 2009 at 7:28 pm

Hi, I have recently purchased Acer X233H, 23″” LCD monitor. I am connecting this with my Dell Inspiron 1526 which has ATI Radeon X1270 series graphics. (258MB VRAM). I am conne ting thru HDMI/VGA. But both the cases the picture quality is not satisfactory. Can anyone have any ideae ? is it with Graphics card ? note : my graphics woks fine in Laptop lacd screen.

Tanzeel Zia said on : April 2nd, 2009 at 7:25 am

Hi
I am connecting my laptop to lcd tv with vga cable but i cann’t get sound on my lcd tv.please can any body tell me that one cable which transfer both video and audio from laptop to LCD TV.
Thanx

jesus said on : April 7th, 2009 at 12:20 pm

I connected a vga cable from my gateway labtop to my vizio 1080p lcd tv. I change the setting to rgb but the screen is blue and it says there is no data. what can i do?

Marko said on : April 21st, 2009 at 9:12 pm

Hi i have an Asus Laptop its got HDMI but i dont have a TV that supports it.On TV i have a S-video port with 5 holes but my laptop one’s got 15 holes,what i am supposed to do to make this work?
Thanks

bonnie said on : April 26th, 2009 at 7:06 pm

I have seen my question asked several times whilst scrolling through these posts, but not 1 answer to it, could someone please help, i have connected my lap top to tv and have both sound and picture but its in BLACK AND WHITE i read on other sites to change the display settings but no one says what to, someone please help, thanks in advance to anyone who finds the time to answer

grayanne said on : April 26th, 2009 at 7:42 pm

Im connecting my LCD projection TV to my PC, since the TV doesn’t have the VGA port, i purchased a VGA to Component Video Cable adapter, so I connected the VGA to the PC and the Component Video cable to the TV, when I turn on the TV i can only see LINES on the screen.
PLEASE HELP

JayKay said on : April 27th, 2009 at 10:35 pm

Wow….you people are all stupid. Stop posting all your specific, annoyingly explained questions in here. There is maybe 2 answers in this whole chinese firedrill of a thread.

Vickki said on : April 30th, 2009 at 3:43 pm

I got my cable at Amazon.com for $1.00+$4.99 shipping. Beat that!

cameron said on : May 14th, 2009 at 12:05 am

I normally have no problem connecting my laptop to my TV but I recently upgraded my TV to a Samsung, connected the two using VGA and the TV will not let me go to any of the input settings. They are all grey and will not let me highlight over them. Does anyone have any advise on how to select the correct input setting??
Thank You

geraldz said on : May 18th, 2009 at 8:39 pm

Here’s a useful website: PCTVCables.com

T said on : May 20th, 2009 at 6:06 pm

Can you please tell me how to get the volume going once you finally are able to connect the laptop to the tv?

Thank you also for all your help, it was months of trying before I read your post….lol

ksu294m said on : May 22nd, 2009 at 11:58 am

BONNIE- black and white can be caused by your cable not being plugged in all the way lol. I had to shave the end of my svideo cable with a pocket knife so that it would fit inside my TV’s port. after tapering the plastic end a bit, i was able to fit the cable all the way inside the svideo port.
also i don’t recommend getting the cheapest cable you can find-i have a couple of svideo cables and the most expensive one i have is by far the best. the others make the image bleed off the screen and the color is dull. i don’t know the brand but my cable is very common/popular and has a gold rope woven look.

kevin said on : May 24th, 2009 at 12:14 am

hey I need help im trying to show my laptop screen on my tv.i have a gateway ModelNo.:M41 and im trying to connect to a vizio hdmi hdtv 37″ year 2007 using a cable with two female connectors and each has a audio connector like eaphones do and the cable is apprx. 12 feet and is pure blsck.when i connect it to my tv it is placed into the RGB section but it says no signal.please i need help

happy laptopper said on : May 25th, 2009 at 4:17 pm

dear person,

the person who said FN and F8 works for your TV, THANK YOU very much!!! it actually worked.

nicole

Paul said on : May 28th, 2009 at 3:18 am

Can anyone tell me if it is possible to stream videos from my laptop to my TV, Wirelessly? Not using cables, as thats easy?
Cheers

Steve said on : June 14th, 2009 at 3:45 pm

I had my Mac connected to the LCD TV via VGA cable and everything worked fine – I could watch internet supplied movies on the big screen. However after the switch from analog to digital on Friday, June 12, the TV screen went black and the connectivity was lost. Any advice?

Jacob said on : June 27th, 2009 at 7:21 pm

Hello i bought a HDMI to HDMI cord today at gay Best Buy.I am using a HP Pavilion DV4 special edition laptop and a 52″ sony grand wega tv. I’ve tried everything I can think of including updating my graphics card driver and still cannot get a picture on my screen. When i put tv on pc mode my laptop screen flashes for a second then returns to normal. In the ATI catalyst control center it recognizes my 2nd monitor but have tried every setting and get no picture on my screen. Anyone know how to fix this ill send them 1 billion dollars paypal cuz i already spent 1 billion hours trying to figure this out!

shilpa said on : July 2nd, 2009 at 10:07 am

Hi
I am connecting my laptop to lcd tv with vga cable but i cann’t get sound on my lcd tv.please can any body tell me that one cable which transfer both video and audio from laptop to LCD TV. my laptop doesn’t have hdmi or dvi cabel.
Thanx

Katt said on : July 12th, 2009 at 8:51 pm

I have a HP Pavilion dx9000 computer,(Vista) and a new Samsung 1080 HD 40″ TV. I want to connect my Laptop to the TV so I can watch Netflix movies. The TV is made for HD but I don’t have that with my cable service yet. I’m computer literate but not tech literate. I need to know what cables I need to buy to connect them and where exactly I put these cables on each of my electronic devices. I would really appreciate some help. TIA

Minotaur said on : July 15th, 2009 at 6:47 am

I have a Samsung LCD 32″ Series 4 (LA32A450C1). I recently bought a Desktop computer with nVidia 512 mb (has VGA port, 7-pin S-video, DVI port). How do I connect my desktop to the LCD – both audio & video? (Just below the VGA port of the LCD is a socket which says “PC Audio cable; but my desktop has Blue, Green & Red sockets. What cables / adapters / etc. should I use?

dj said on : July 19th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

does ur HDTV’s brand have to be the same as your computers brand to be able to hook them up. like for example i have a Sony HDTV and a Dell desktop computer, can i connect them?

sabin said on : July 22nd, 2009 at 3:21 am

How can I connect my Laptop (S300) to the TV with VGA-composite convertor? my tv has just composite video input. I’ve connected my laptop to the tv but I coulden’t get the display! The Intel TV wizard can not find my video connection type(composite), even when I choose it manually. thanks in advance.

yeskha said on : July 23rd, 2009 at 8:47 am

It helped me a lot in a critical situation. There was nobody to help me out while I was arranging for a presentation and meeting. This page helped me to do it myself without expecting anybody else’s help.

Franz said on : July 26th, 2009 at 7:53 am

Even with the VGA cable from PC to my plasma VGA and review the settings from my plasma and reviewing the settings from my pc…nothing. My plasma goes black

anyone has a solution for me I would appreciate it so much.

Jake said on : July 26th, 2009 at 8:25 pm

I connected my computer to my tv and it works but the picture is shifted to the left so I can’t see the left half of the picture, and there is a huge black area at the right of the screen how do i center the picture?

JOHN said on : August 1st, 2009 at 1:59 pm

I have a sony vaio laptop and a 37″ samsung LCD TV and bought a VGA cable but it just keeps saying “check signal cable” in a huge box in the middle of the TV although I can see my wallpaper picture in the background but it’s faint and not clear.
Can anyone help please
Thanks

jen said on : August 2nd, 2009 at 8:38 pm

Anyone looking for audio, I was on here trying to figure out how to get it and my husband just got it working by downloading the appropriate high def audio drivers. We are using an HDMI cable.

Aniket said on : August 3rd, 2009 at 2:56 am

I have Acer Aspire 4736. It has VGA, HDMI Port.
I want to connect it to my 22″ Flat Screen AKAI TV. The also does not have and S-Video Port. I Just has Regular A/V Input output ports and a RS-Input port. I dont know what this RS-Input Port is?
Is there a way, I can have my laptop screen output on my TV?

Gable said on : August 10th, 2009 at 2:07 pm

This is an amazingly busy thread. I have two other suggestions for guides about connecting PCs/Macs to TVs. One is on Amazon:

http://www.amazon.com/gp/video.....nnect_info

The other is on Jaman, the movie service:

http://www.jaman.com/jaman-tv/

However all the guides overlook the issue of the remote control. Wireless is preferred and there is one made specifically for this purpose:

http://www.hillcrestlabs.com/loop

Good luck!

michelle said on : August 19th, 2009 at 9:10 pm

Im trying to hook up my Sony Vaio to my Samsung DLP tv and i know all you have to do is hook the cable to your tv and set the tv to PC. but now i am getting a error message of “check signal cable” what the H*&% am i doing wrong!

Brandon said on : August 26th, 2009 at 7:30 am

I have a question,

I would like to use the option of the VGA cable but my tv doesn’t have the port. and our tv has HD. my tv is a panasonic flatscreen tv. my computer is a Windows Vista and it has the port. i cant use the s-video because my laptop has 7 pins and my tv has 4. i would like to get a pc game called guitar praise and hook it up on the tv. can someone please help me!!!! thanks!!!

coffee girl said on : August 28th, 2009 at 9:27 pm

I never thought it would be this confusing. My tv and various laptops have the hdmi and s video but not sure which I should do – or perhaps both?

Pamela said on : September 8th, 2009 at 12:35 pm

I have my HP desk top connected to my Samsung HDTV, works great, when I first did this I really liked it, but when we moved and rehooked it up it no longer has sound through the TV, it did before… what should I undo to get the sound back?

Scott said on : September 11th, 2009 at 5:44 pm

Question…I have a Toshiba Satellite L300 series laptop and a Panasonic Plasma TV. I ordered a VGA out to HDMI in cable to connect. Now that I have them hooked up, I cannot move the computer screen to the tv. I tried Function F5 on computer which is for LCD Out, but that doesn’t work. Can someone help?

a said on : September 12th, 2009 at 8:44 am

Hi,
I am connecting my laptop to tv by a converter I bought from e-bay. My TV has s-video input whereas laptop has vga output. It was working fine but suddenly the tv screen started turning green as soon as I connnect my laptop.When I disconnect the tv runs fine.Any advice will be helpful. thanks snd regards…a

Lu said on : September 15th, 2009 at 8:06 pm

When I connected my Dell XPS laptop to my Toshiba 40″ HDTV with a HDMI cable, I got only video but no audio. I then pulled out the manual, and found out that I should connect the PC audio output(headphone) to the TV audio input. I did that, and still no audio! Finally I went to the on-screen menu, audio settings, and set the HDMI audio input to analog. That did the trick. I am happy!

The HDMI transmits both video and audio in digital format, but the PC is probably transmitting the audio in analog format still, hence the disconnect.

Gable said on : September 18th, 2009 at 3:14 pm

I’m not sure VGA to HDMI can work at all because the signals are too different. Unless you buy an actual transcoder box. Maybe someone more informed can respond.

Charlie said on : September 19th, 2009 at 9:00 am

Strange problem,
I hook up my Compaq with Vista to my Olevia LCD via the s-video out. I have done this in the past without any problems.

I did it last night and it hooked up but on the lap top screen I could see everything fine as normal, but on the Olevia the only thing that would show up is the desktop background. No icons, no mouse pointer…nothing.
I tried to adjust a few video settings but no luck, what am I missing ?
Thanks

Robin said on : September 29th, 2009 at 5:02 pm

Hi,

I’ve just connected my laptop to my tv using a vga cable and it seems to work fine but the tv has a blue/green tint to it. Once I change it back to “tv mode” the color is fine.

Any suggestions?

Grant said on : October 2nd, 2009 at 7:53 pm

I am having issues connecting a gateway computer through the vga cable to a samsung lcd tv. The gateway has windows xp and i updated all the drivers and such trying to get the image on the screen. It is fully connected to the screen but for some reason you can only see image when the computer is first starting up, aka the screen where it has the windows xp screen. Anyone have anyway I could fix it? I tried the resolution changes and the FN and F8 keys but nothing seemed to happen. Thanks

fazi said on : October 2nd, 2009 at 10:55 pm

i have dell inspiron laptop and phillips 32″ tv . i have connected my Laptop with 7 pin s-video to RCA cable. every thing is fine picture quality and sound as well. but the only problem is the color . the colors on tv is black and white . can anybody help me. thanks

Lynn said on : October 3rd, 2009 at 10:13 am

Terrific advice. It made it all so simple. I just bought a new Sony ‘Bravia W’ TV for streaming Netflix and discovered that the service is not up and running yet. But now I can stream movies from Netflix to my PC to the TV. Many thanks for the clear help.

Alex said on : October 6th, 2009 at 3:07 pm

Try this VGAtoVideo Extender Kit which provides you with the quality and results that allow you to send video farther, see images clearer and enjoy yourself more than ever before. Get quality video results and relay on our proven technology to span long distances (up to 125 feet) by connecting any video source to any screen. This is all done using regular ethernet CAT5 or CAT6 cable.

- Entertain family and friends by connecting your PC to your big screen TV!
- Enjoy your favorite downloaded movies
- Show home videos and photo slide shows

Here is a simple instructional video on how you can hook everything up:
VGAtoVideo.com/instructions.html

Flexible C said on : October 7th, 2009 at 11:52 am

TO ALL THOSE WHO ARE GETTING BLACK-AND-WHITE PICTURE AND NO SOUND:
1. You are using S-Video cable, which DOES NOT support colour graphics. It has only black and white. You need VGA or any other higher end cables.

2. Sound will NOT be transferred via S-Video either. You need a separate cable, which has a standard 3.5mm audio jack on BOTH sides (i.e. see the plug end of any standard headphone or earplug. Your cable should look like that on BOTH ends, one of which goes into the laptop and the other into the TV’s audio input.)

I don’t know if VGA supports sound. Ask your cable seller.

Ravishankar said on : October 10th, 2009 at 9:30 am

Someone pls help me
I have a DELL INSPIRON E1505 laptop. I purchased a s-video 7 pin rca (red, blue and green) tv connector so I can connect it to my BPL FDV 21 TV

I just plugged it in, and nothing.

I tried F8 with Fn and it flickers but that’s about it.

I put down the resolution of my laptop and that didnt work either.

I tried all settings in display properties, the laptop is recognising the television but not showing the display, what to do please advise me

- thanks for all your help

Kayleigh said on : October 12th, 2009 at 8:35 am

i am currently in the middle of connecting my laptop to my tv. the laptop is very high tech and has a blue ray player, what i am trying to do it play films on the laptop but to watch on the tv. i bought a hdmi cable and attached it , everything works fine, the picture is on the tv of what is on the laptop, only when i go to play a blu ray film, it will not show on the television , a message appears saying – :incompatible grpahics card”. i have tried changing the resolution as low as it will go and it still wont play. is there anything else i can do?

Ravishankar said on : October 12th, 2009 at 9:56 am

UPDATE SOLUTION FOR BLACK AND WHITE VIDEO ,

Update found solution got pinout of my dell laptop and shorted pins 3 and 4 i.e passed a small wire from 3 hole to 4 hole and then inserted the s plug into laptop, now I am getting super colours pins 3 and 4 are for Y grayscale and C colour. Refer the pinout of Svideo pin of your laptop and short the pins containing Y grayscale signal and C colour signal

ravi.exe@gmail.com

Gable said on : October 16th, 2009 at 4:38 pm

Maybe the blu-ray is not working because it is locked due to some obscure licensing/legal reason. If everything else (website, Hulu, etc) shows up fine on your TV monitor. This is just a guess. If the problem continues, you just have to contact the mfg of your laptop.

Gable said on : October 16th, 2009 at 4:42 pm

S-Video will support color, but only analog signals and standard definition (old). Even composite supports color (RCA yellow jack), but again only analog St Def.

Neither S-Video or composite carry audio. That must be wired separately. Same is true for VGA.

If nothing is showing up on the TV, perhaps double check that you have the TV set to the right input.

vicky said on : October 22nd, 2009 at 11:19 pm

hi

some one please help me

i have Compaq presario C700 notebook (vista compatible but using XP) and Sony Bravia 32′Lcd TV.i am using VGA cable to connect it to tv but the tv shows no signal.i am switching from tv to pc mode.

how can i resolve this problem.

thanks for help.

steve blackburn said on : October 23rd, 2009 at 10:19 am

hi, been using advice and have successfully connected old dell pc to new lcd samsung via s-video from pc converted to scart into tv. No problem except, tv picture is too big and when I use the mouse up/down/left/right on the perimeters of monitor it moves the tv screen around!!!! Any ideas, using nvidia geforce4 mx 420. thanxxxx

Frosty said on : October 29th, 2009 at 12:03 am

I have a Samsung DLP and a Sony Vaio laptop running Windows 7, my laptop recognizes the Samsung DLP but I can’t get the TV to PC mode to recognize the laptop, I’m using a VGA, any suggestions?

Ian said on : October 31st, 2009 at 6:46 am

Hi my father has a hdtv and has the pc/vga connector and has the yellow.. white.. red.. and the s video on it.. now we connected it to both ends using the same white.. yellow.. red.. and s vid on the pc vga on the graphics card but nothins workin… nothing is showin on the screen the tv keeps goin in off mode.. is there anything im missing out? iv tried changin the g cards res to the same as the tv but still nothing. please help.

srikanth said on : November 5th, 2009 at 4:59 am

How to connect my dell inspirion 5150 to TV? My location is India, hyderabad. Kindly give me advise and suggest what cable I should use!

Nicole said on : November 7th, 2009 at 7:40 pm

Thanks for the great tips. Pictures and videos are always good to have. My laptop is now showing up on my TV!

Tricia said on : November 10th, 2009 at 11:35 am

How do I get the sound to work? I bought a HDMI to VGA cord but the TV has another RCA spot that says audio in am I supposed to hook something to this?

Peter Smith-Round said on : November 10th, 2009 at 4:13 pm

Hi, I have a Fujitsu Siemens Amilo lap top which I want to connect to my Samsung 32″ LCD tv (Samsung LE32R87BD). I am using a VGA cable which works on other lap tops I have had but not this one? If I turn the TV off at the wall and turn it back on again I get a glimse of the laptop screen but then it goes black. Frustrating as hell..!!

Any tips would be welcome!

Peter

JJ said on : November 11th, 2009 at 1:27 pm

Can you connect a Laptop to a TV without wires i.e. Wireless?

Jewbacca said on : November 13th, 2009 at 9:46 pm

ANSWER TO BLACK AND WHITE VIDEO

If you are using a S-Video Cable or S-Video Cable adapter, check how many pins are in the S-Video end of the plug (connecting to PC). If there are only 4 pins, you will only get black and white. You need a better cable/adapter. I have 2 pcs hooked up to 2 tvs in 2 locations. I use a S-Video-to-RCA adapter on both. On one there are 4 pins and I get black and white. On the other there are at least 7 (from my memory) and I get full colour.

Gable said on : November 17th, 2009 at 1:49 pm

Many of the recent posts are general questions about cables and sounds etc. I recommend looking at this page about connecting computers to TVs at:

http://www.hillcrestlabs.com/loop/connecting.php

Jason said on : November 20th, 2009 at 4:36 pm

Hi,

I connected my Sony Vaio Laptop to Sony Bravia LCD TV….however, the LCD Monitor does not show fullscreen. Also, when I run a movie on my laptop, it displays on the lcd, however, there is no audio on the TV?

vijay said on : November 23rd, 2009 at 8:11 am

I have hp compaq presario 5201 tu series notebook and i could connect the S-Vedio out to TV (RCA). I could get the display on the TV but in black and white……without colour and also i am not getting audio on the TV set. My S-Video card is 7 pin jack.

Kindly advise on how to obtain color display and audio on the TV.

thanks

vijay

d godfrey said on : November 25th, 2009 at 9:15 am

I hook up my pc to my plasma tv thru a dvi hdmi cable, it was working for about ten minutes, although no sound it said I needed to hook audio seperate, any suggestion how and why it might of stop working for me?

gabe said on : November 26th, 2009 at 10:06 am

I have an acer aspire one and when i connect the vga to the Emement 32in lcd tv, it just shows the back ground picture of the laptop and nothing esle. i’ve tried the reducing resloution. what’s the deal? Can anyone help?

Alex M. said on : November 29th, 2009 at 9:46 pm

Hello, I had my LG laptop connected to my LG LCD by VGA cord for the longest time it worked perfect, but for some reason now all it will show is only background picture no icons, no mouse, no start bar if any one can help get it back to normal that would be great! i’m positive its not something wrong with the VGA cord because i tryed it with an HDMI cable and the same thing occured.

Budsmoker72 said on : November 30th, 2009 at 2:27 pm

I have a pretty old 19 inch color TV , the big butt style, anyhow, my PC is a few years old, but i love it, what do i need to do to get my PC to show on my TV set, would i maybe need to buy some sort of converter, seeing i know i dont have HD, or 1 of the S tv things, please help, i been wondering for a long time, it would be nice to sit and play and chat on the TV instead of my old monitor..thanks

Jo said on : December 2nd, 2009 at 5:36 pm

Looks like no-ones commented in a while!

but I may aswell give this a try!

I can’t find a VGA male to S-Video male cable, anyone know where I can get one from?

thanks

William Small said on : December 2nd, 2009 at 5:37 pm

I read your instruction wrong as to how to connect your laptop to a TV. I purchased a HDMI to DVI cable, I checked my PC and I don’t have a DVI port, so can I use the USB bus to DVI adapter to make the conncection to DVI to HDMI to the TV, will this work?

Shanta Ramchandran said on : December 4th, 2009 at 5:01 pm

Hello,
I am trying to connect my Lenovo laptop to my Samsung HDTV using a VGA cable. I am not getting any signal. The TV screen goes blank.

I tried this with two Lenovo Notebooks and both with the same result. But when I connected to a Desktop it works fine. Lenovo would not help me and said I should google it to see how get the display.

Could someone please help me!!!

maya said on : December 8th, 2009 at 3:50 pm

OK how do i connect using my converter box to get the laptop to show up on the TV?

Edel said on : December 9th, 2009 at 2:18 pm

É o seguinte o meu portatil so tem a porta HDMI, e desejava ligar a minha televisao, esta so tem entrada de s-video e scart. como fasso para ligar o meu laptop a TV?

Se poderem ajudar eu agradecia. =)

tony said on : December 12th, 2009 at 11:54 am

I have a Vizio HDTV and tried to connect pc to tv, but get nothing. Using VGA male to male connection. what gives?

Jen said on : December 12th, 2009 at 11:15 pm

Hi,

Had my Acer Travelmate 6000 connected to my Panasonic full HD Plasma and all worked fine. Watched a coulpe of movies etc. Had to disconnect laptop to use for work and when I reconnected it no longer transmits a signal to the TV. I tested the cable with our PC monitor and it worked fine. Any ideas as to what could be wrong. Should I call Panasonic and claim under warranty?

Any suggestions.

Thanks

kayla said on : December 14th, 2009 at 9:21 am

OK, I have a dell xps one desktop and a samsung hdtv. I want to connect the 2 but my tv only has a 4 pin s-video connection, not a 7 pin….what can I do?

Enping Zhao said on : December 14th, 2009 at 9:57 pm

I have a HP Pavilion p6210f and a Samsung Synmaster P2570HD TV, and a LG plasma TV. The pc is connected to SyncMaster via RGB cable, and to plasma TV via DVI-D cable. The plasma TV shows “no signal”. I saw the pc detects both displays. I mistakenly set the plasma TV as the primary display. Now, if the DVI-D cable is plugged in, I won’t see anything on either the plasma TV nor the SyncMaster. I can get back display on SyncMaster if I disconnect the DVI-D cable. How can I make the plasma TV work with the pc? Thanks!

Hudin said on : December 18th, 2009 at 5:06 pm

I was able to connect my pc to a sony 28″ TV. I used a rca connector on my pc and connected it to the av input on tv, but the quality is very bad. My pc has a s video port with 7 pin and I used a converter from 7 pin to rca 1 pin, but my tv doesn’t have s video connector. Anyone can help me solve this problem? Thanks.

parry said on : December 20th, 2009 at 3:50 am

I have an HDTV and a laptop with an HDMI port. Suggest me the cheapest and best method to connect the two? (in detail)

Gable said on : December 21st, 2009 at 10:34 am

Parry,

Just get a HDMI cable and that should do it all. HDMI carries video and audio. If you get a picture with no sound, your PC might not be fully supporting the HDMI out and you should get an audio cable. (See what is on both sides for audio.) If you want more ideas, look at:

http://www.hillcrestlabs.com/loop/connecting.php

larry said on : December 23rd, 2009 at 12:26 am

I am trying to connect a sony vaio to a sharp tv, I’ve tried everything but the TV remains black and it says that the signal is not compatible with the TV. what can I do? Thanks a lot!

DaRkRuLa said on : December 23rd, 2009 at 7:14 pm

I have got a Samsung TV and a Dell Laptop and have managed to get the video working using the VGA Cable but I cannot get the sound to work.

Does any1 knw the solution 2 this problem?

taylordiving said on : December 24th, 2009 at 7:26 am

I’m so excited that after all these years of leeching off everyone else’s technical expertise I can actually make a positive contribution. Unfortunately I have “borrowed” this solution from another website but at least good information is being pased on. By following this procedure you can successfully hook up the VIDEO feed from your pc to a standard tv provided the pc has an s-video output and the tv has a yellow rca video input:

1. Connect the S-Video to Composite TV out adapter in your laptop S-video output.
2. Connect one end of you composite video cable to the S-Video to Composite TV out adapter
3. Connect the other end of your composite video cable to your TV video input
4. Switch the TV to appropriate Video mode
5. Boot your laptop
6. Go to Control Panel > Display > Setting tab (Win XP OS)
7. Right click 2nd display and attach it.
8. Set the resolution and color properties. (Generally the TV supports 800×600 resolution. Sony 29″ TV supported 1280×780 resolution with 32 bit Color)
9. You will see the extended desktop.

The TV screen behaves like a extended monitor. Drag the applications you want to run into the TV screen. This way you can run movies from your laptop on to your TV screen. In order to get your audio output into your TV, you need to take the audio out from the headphone-jack in your laptop to your TV audio input.

Now, the only problem with the video may be that what is on your pc screen is not the same as what is on the tv. What I’ve found is the screens are misaligned and if you drag whatever screen or application you want to use off the pc screen to the right it begins to show up on the tv screen. At that point the cursor also appears on the tv screen and that has now become your computer monitor.

All functions/activities will perform just like they do on the pc screen! My only issue now is I cannot get the text resolution/font size on internet explorer websites (e.g. hotmail, facebook) large and clear enought to read properly. Does anyone have any ideas on how to correct this flaw?

Ali said on : December 24th, 2009 at 7:37 am

Hi there, I have a weird problem I have bought a VGA cable which was working fine in the beginning, a few days back when I connect it on my TV the picture quality goes green but not on my laptop. Any idea why it goes green when I connect it to my TV?

David said on : December 27th, 2009 at 9:50 pm

I connected my VGA cable from my laptop to my HDTV but now I hear the sounds on my laptop. How do I transfer the sounds to my TV?

liz said on : December 28th, 2009 at 1:44 pm

i have the Sony SXRD tv and Dell laptop. I am trying to connect the laptop to tv and have purchased the VGA cable. Using TV/Video 8, first it said that I needed to adjust PC output so I figured out that I needed to press Fn + F8 (crt/lcd) but now I am just able to view my desktop on the tv but cant seem to do anything else. No icons are being displayed and cant do anything. All I am able to see once again is the desk top pic. HELP PLEASE

myra davis said on : December 28th, 2009 at 7:36 pm

i am trying to connect my dell all in one computer to my plasma tv….can this be done….we want to use the blue ray capability on the computer to show on the plasma tv?????

Joshua said on : December 31st, 2009 at 11:31 am

when i connect my pc via vga cable to my 1080p lcd 40inch hd tv, the only thing shows is the desktop background but no icon or mouse. also the desktop background is very small on my tv. im trying to run videos on my tv from my computer . plz help!

eoghan said on : January 1st, 2010 at 11:22 am

Excellent advise here. just had to change the laptop resolution to get it workin on my tv.

Thank You.

David said on : January 1st, 2010 at 6:37 pm

I have just hooked my tv to my pc with a VGA-HDMI cable. Video is great but I have no audio. How can I enable audio? I was told that since I was using HDMI that I would not need an extra audio cable.

Kayla said on : January 2nd, 2010 at 2:28 am

For sound we found the simplest and cheapest was to use a double sided headphone Jack. Hook in headphone connections on tv and on computer.

zona said on : January 2nd, 2010 at 5:01 am

Hello,

I want to watch videos I have on my laptop through my TV. I have bought a VGA cable which I have connected to the TV and it displays the film through the PC channel on the television but no sound! I have also connected a cable (white and red one end) into TV and other end into the headphone jack on the laptop. This produces the sound through the TV but on the S Video channel not the PC channel. So basically I can watch the film with no sound or listen to the film with no visual as they are both on different channels. Is there a way to have the two working together?? ?? Thanks in advance.

Jay said on : January 5th, 2010 at 5:17 pm

I’m not sure if this has been posted, yet, but a lot of the newer PC’s come with an HDMI port to connect directly from your computer to an HD TV. Very easy, and pretty cool in my opinion. I plan on getting a singe LCD TV, and running my computer to it, to use it as a monitor. I do not have cable, I receive all of my multi media entertainment via the internet. If I did have cable, I do have to say that I would still stick to using an LCD TV as a monitor, just because it’s so cool.

hari said on : January 6th, 2010 at 11:08 am

hi!! i bought a samsung 32 inch lcd tv with hdmi port…i hav 9600 gt graphics card on my pc which has got only a dvi port…i heard that by using a dvi to hdmi cable only video is being displayed without audio… i just want to know whether the audio can be retrieved from cpu?

Gable said on : January 6th, 2010 at 2:44 pm

You can get a DVI to HDMI cable for the video and then get a mini-stereo to red/white stereo cable for the audio. That works in most cases. Check this site if you have more questions:

http://www.hillcrestlabs.com/loop/connecting.php

Gable said on : January 6th, 2010 at 4:10 pm

The NY Times ran a recent article about doing this and cutting the TV cable bill entirely:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/12.....asics.html

Joe I said on : January 6th, 2010 at 9:29 pm

I guess my problem of the picture being a bit pixely isn’t a problem compared to all the trouble you guys are having.
I have a Polaroid 19″ TV LCD w/ VGA conection it has worked well with my acer lap top and my OLD Compacts Pirsario. With the lap top I had only the problem of the TV shutting off because it took too long for the computer to send the signal to the TV.(A matter of timing on when to turn on the Tv) Had to use 3.5 mm patch cord for the sound and using vga conection for video. The TV is set at 1024×768@60hz as is the computer. I have to use the remote to set the input to the vga or computer setting on the tv. I hope this helps some of you.

Joe I said on : January 6th, 2010 at 10:39 pm

For Zona:

Do you have more than one conection for your audio? it could be that you are conecting your audio to the pc audio and you need to conect it to you s-video input for audio. or go to vga so that your video is on the pc channel whre you said your audio already is. I hope that helps.

Joe I said on : January 6th, 2010 at 10:43 pm

or did I get that wrong. but what I mean to say is you must have anouther audio inpute for the pc channel.

mukund said on : January 6th, 2010 at 11:02 pm

Hi,

I am trying to connect my laptop to TV using S-video cable. Problem is when laptop is booting, I can see the laptop output on TV. When Windows screen with desktop and other icons loads on laptop, the output on TV just goes off.

There is no further output seen on TV.

Any idea what to do about this ???

Cathy said on : January 7th, 2010 at 11:06 pm

I have tried unsuccessfully to connect my hp computer laptop to my 32″ 1080p *JVC HDTV, but i am just getting a black screen. Please somebody tell me what cord to use or what settings needed on the computer and tv? Thank You…

Danny said on : January 8th, 2010 at 10:11 am

Hi, i have a toshiba satellite Laptop with windows 7 and want to connect to my tv! they both have HDMI ports but when i got the lead and connected them my laptop screen flashes on and off about 6 times then freezers!! its like the tv overpowers the laptop

Any help would be appreciated,

Thank,
Danny.

Sahand said on : January 16th, 2010 at 11:07 am

Hi

I have connected my laptop to my LCD TV with a HDMI cable but it’s not showing in full view on My LCD TV how to fix that?

PS: I’m using Vista.

Lee said on : January 17th, 2010 at 9:42 pm

I just hooked the Dell Dimension desktop (circa 2000, w/ winXP)using VGA, to my 27″ Envision LCD HDTV. After putting on the right source for input to the monitor, there was only a dark screen, I almost gave up and was gonna try the s-vid route, then decided to turn off computer and lcd and turn back on, voila!, it works and looks good too. No sound from tv, but already have sound from speakers attached to computer, what a diff from the 17″ samsung monitor I had been using for years! Thanks for all the ideas here.

daryl said on : January 19th, 2010 at 6:15 pm

just bought a dvi to hdmi cable for my computer but my computer doesnt have dvi so i bought a vga adapter for it but when i plugged it in to my tv nothing displayed! please help with any suggestions!

jack said on : January 20th, 2010 at 8:51 am

I bought a VGA cable but when I connect my laptop to tv nothing appears . I also tried to change the screen on the laptop using Fn+f4 but nothing happens on the TV… my tv is xoceco TS2587 but I don’t know if it is an HDTV or not. please help!

Rey B said on : January 24th, 2010 at 7:14 pm

Hi ppl.. I have a philips 50″ plasma 1080i HDTV that came with no vga input. I want to connect my laptop pc to my HDTV and i was told to use a vga (from pc) to component input (red,blue,green on the plasma) it’s not workin out, can someone walk me through this?…

Gable said on : January 25th, 2010 at 8:33 pm

I had to connect VGA to component also and there is no way to do it with simple cables alone. You need a converter box. I used the GRANDTEC GHV-2000 Hi-wire Multi-format VGA To HDTV Adapter. It worked but overall it’s expensive and not a good image in the end either.

KT said on : January 25th, 2010 at 11:11 pm

I have a new HP Pavillion dv6 and it has a HDMI port on the pc so i think the new pcs do have them built in. I think it takes the place of the S-cord because I don’t have one on my HP.

GIRISH PANCHAL said on : January 27th, 2010 at 2:21 am

I have a DVI-out port on my computer and I have a 42″ plasma HDTV and I want to connect my computer to the TV. What type of cable do I need? Thanks.

mmskam said on : January 28th, 2010 at 8:25 pm

I have a laptop that plays Blu Ray. Is there any way that I can play it thru my tv so we can watch the movie on a big screen? We can get the two hooked up together, but as soon as I push play, it plays for a few seconds, then a message comes up about the material being protected.

Tosh said on : January 29th, 2010 at 4:01 pm

I am connecting my MacBook Pro to a LG Plasma TV. Using Mini Display Port/DVI adaptor to HDMI. Also, using audio cable. I get audio and some video (different shots but not what I want). I have tried to change display settings but doesn’t work. Apple said that the MacPro does this automatically. Any suggestions?

Mommha said on : February 1st, 2010 at 9:51 am

Hi all,

I have a VGA to HDMI cable, but when i connect it between my PC and the HDtv , no picture appears. I have a GeForce 6200 video card but i dont know what i can do. If anyone knows anything, please help me.

thanx

Peter M said on : February 3rd, 2010 at 8:38 pm

I had my laptop repaired recently and when I tried to reconect it to my HDTV via a VGA cable the windows xp loading page came up but after that there was no picture on the tv olny the laptop. (It worked before the repair). Any advise would be a great help thanks.

stuckwithsamsung said on : February 4th, 2010 at 11:00 am

My Samsung DLP requires a ground on pin 10 for it to recognize a PC connection. I discovered that some of my VGA extension cables do not connect all 15 wires; specifically pins 5, 9, & 10 may not be wired through. Check your cables.

Carl Lillpop said on : February 5th, 2010 at 7:08 pm

LN-T4042H….TFT-LCD Samsung Television
Dell Inspiron (E1505) laptop

I hooked the cable from my laptop to the tv (roughly a year ago). I switched the tv to PC mode. I did not change any settings. I just plugged it in and it worked from the start.

Now (year later) all of the sudden, it stopped working. When I hook everything up and switch the tv to pc mode, the tv screen goes black (and stays black)….the computer screen goes black, but returns a few seconds later.

any ideals?