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  • Lisbon67
    Junior Member
    Junior Member
    • Aug 2002
    • 1
    #1

    TV Downstairs

    Hi guys.

    This is probably a really stupid problem but I'll ask for your help anyway.
    I have my PC upstairs with a DVD drive in it. I've bought all the cables to connect my PC to my TV downstairs so that I can watch DVDs on it. The problem I'm having is that when I switch to TV as my display device, my monitors goes off. I have to run downstairs to see what is on my TV and then run back upstairs to my PC. I'm using a TNT2 with tv-out card which only gives me 15 seconds to confirm my choice of display device before reverting back to the previous one. As I can't see my TV, I don't know where my mouse pointer is to confirm selection.
    As I'm not as young as I used to be, this is causing me all sorts of problems.
    Is there any way of displaying on two devices at once without using a second video card?
    I'm using the latest NVidia drivers.

    Thanks in advance.
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    • Enchanter
      Old member
      • Feb 2002
      • 5417
      #2
      I'm not too sure about this, but shouldn't you have the choice of 'Cloning' your display (so that what you see on the monitor is also displayed on the TV)? I know the recent nVidia drivers have this feature.

      Let me have a look at my nVidia-powered system and see if I can make a rough guidance...

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        • Nielchiano
          Member
          Member
          • Aug 2002
          • 70
          #3
          the confirming part is easy: just press ALT+Y or ALT+N (or the underlined letter in the button). Escape and Enter work too... but I think they both cancel the change.

          Try using TVTools (www.tvtools.de, i think) It should be able to use the two monitors, IF your PC monitor supports that low resolution (720*576 @25Hz interlaced (50Hz))
          We were all newbies once... and we all needed some help once, so lets once help the newbies.

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            • hermanthegerman
              Gold Member
              Gold Member
              • Apr 2002
              • 123
              #4
              Yeah, like Nielchiano said. You should definitly give TVTool a try. You can download a free trial version and if it works with your TV-Out card and your monitor you should pay the view dollars or euros for the update supported full version. It's realy worth it.

              Servus,
              hermanthegerman

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