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Old March 20th, 2007, 02:11 PM
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Problems getting display to monitor from laptop

I just got my laptop and am having a hard time getting a signal to the bigscreen I use at the bar. I tried changing display settings to no avail....Help?
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Old March 20th, 2007, 02:58 PM
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First question is does your laptop support extended desktop? If so do you have it setup the way the manual tells you? And is the TV turned on and hooked up before you turn on the laptop, so laptop won't revert back to 1 screen?
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Old March 20th, 2007, 03:53 PM
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Douglas, This is Rex Newport, You can look on my order and see...I got it about early Feb. The big screen is turned on when I start up my laptop. I am using s-video all the way. I just followed the instuctions to change things however I am away from the bar. I will try tonite...Rex
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Old March 20th, 2007, 04:38 PM
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Douglas, This is Rex Newport, You can look on my order and see...I got it about early Feb. The big screen is turned on when I start up my laptop. I am using s-video all the way. I just followed the instuctions to change things however I am away from the bar. I will try tonite...Rex
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No I can't look on your order, because I am not an MTU employee. I am just a customer like you. But if you bought the laptop from MTU then it has the capability to do extended desktop.
Also make sure the TV is set for the S-Video input and not on regular channels. If all that doesn't work I would suspect the S-video cable may be the wrong kind. There are 2 versions of S-video (4 pin and 7 pin).
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Old March 21st, 2007, 11:38 AM
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I know the physical difference, but exactly why and what are the other pins for and what do they do that the 4pin are not doing?
Does anyone know?
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Old March 22nd, 2007, 11:12 AM
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7 pin is s-video/tv it has a composit signal for tv out.
4 pin is s-video only, no composit signal.
so if your computer has 7 pin you can use a 4 pin or a 7 pin adaptor to rca for composit signal.
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Old March 22nd, 2007, 12:48 PM
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I guess my question now is:
When is there ever a 7-pin receiver on the other end?
In all cases I've experienced, a 4 pin adapter was required?
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Old March 22nd, 2007, 04:53 PM
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with 7 pin s-video you can attach a splitter, and you can have video in as well as video out. My hp has this. with 4 pin s-video it is only video out.
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Old March 22nd, 2007, 10:52 PM
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you can get a 7 pin to rca from www.s-video.com both of my laptops have a 7 pin i used to used an adaptor that cost a lot of money , bought the 7 pin to rca for a fraction of the cost of the adaptor and it work excellent.. ( this is by no means endorsing a co. ) just trying to help..
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