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Last edited by billyo; December 25th, 2006 at 12:32 PM. |
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update your video card drivers from manfact website.
also the problem you describe is video card settings. is it ati or nvidia.
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my 1505 has the 128mb ati radeon x1300 hypermemory and the 1405 only have the intel graphic media accelarator 950 MG
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Hi everyone. Sorry I haven't been around the past couple of weeks. Just got done visiting lots of family and going back to my day job (working the graveyard shift.
![]() But during my time away, my friend was able to get a couple of older laptops from another friend of his, so I've had the chance to test them with the demo version of Hoster. The Toshiba M55-S3512 works perfectly with what I'm trying to accomplish with Hoster, including dual-display with S-video. The only bad part is that the internal CD/DVD drive doesn't read CD+G discs. Oh well...we'll just look into getting an external CD drive along with external hard drives to keep it company. ![]() The Dell Inspiron 1200 doesn't have any real expandability to do anything useful with Hoster (no S-video port, no docking station capabilities, etc.). I could (in theory) try to get a 2nd video card installed in the PC Card slot - yes, they do exist - to get S-video output, but I think that takes too much effort compared to what's available now. And a quick note to billyo : I would tend to agree with bobcox on the video issue - check the drivers. Make sure that EVERYTHING is set to NTSC (or PAL if you are in most parts of Europe); if you're using the ATI Catalyst drivers, check everything 10 times over because one little setting could throw everything off on the secondary monitor. I learned this after beating my head against the wall trying to figure this out with my ATI AIW 2006 card. Another test you could try is this...if you have a TV with S-video input, try connecting your computer directly to the TV via S-video cable (no RCA). See if the S-video output works correctly - if so, you're having an issue with the RCA adapter; if not, it's most likely a driver setting/issue. (Sorry...I should start another thread for this, shouldn't I?) Thanks again for your input, everyone! Let's keep this going...my friend is looking now to get quite a few laptops running for his shows (he just loves backup machines ![]() Jon |
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Last edited by billyo; January 14th, 2007 at 10:37 AM. |
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