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Connecting vaio laptop to the TV
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sravipat
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8. April 2005 @ 15:26 |
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When I connect sony grx model laptop to the sony TV, I get only sound but no picture. The laptop has TV-out but no S-Video. The TV has a serial interface for HDTV. Any help in connecting is appreciated.
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Stinky_1
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10. April 2005 @ 18:48 |
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info explaining exactly how you are connecting the laptop is kinda important here.
See I know how to hook a laptop up to a TV and I know what to check if I only have sound and no video or other problems. But I do NOT know if you know what to do.
For example. I assume you have a total of 3 connections going into the TV. One yellow, one white, and one red. I also asume that you are using a headphone to RCA adapter for your sound and have that plugged into your headphone jack on your laptop. I also assume you have got this part done correct because you do have sound coming out of your tv.
I should assume that you have a yellow RCA plug going from your laptop into the TV. If you DO NOT have such a cord or are not sure what I am talking about then I would suggest that is the problem.
If you do have the yellow rca cord and still do not see a picture then I suggest either closing the laptop screen (this may force it to TV out mode) or find the button on your laptop that toggles between internal monitor, external monitor, and TV out. Then push it. Now check for picture on your TV again.
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sravipat
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11. April 2005 @ 09:15 |
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Thanks Stinky. The TV-out worked. I have to reboot the laptop after the connections. I came to know by chance ...
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goelsonu
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7. May 2005 @ 13:14 |
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I am not able to make out how to connect my sony vaio VGN-FS550 laptop to tv. Can anyone help?
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Stinky_1
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8. May 2005 @ 05:36 |
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I just looked online and in the specs it makes no mention of it having a TV out on it. Do you see one anywere? You have 2 headphone looking ports in the front, what are they labeled?
If there is no tv out you would need to get a VGA to SVIDEO or RCA converter box. they run between $50 - $150.
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goelsonu
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9. May 2005 @ 06:55 |
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There is no TV out. Two front ports you mentioned about are for headphone and mike.
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Stinky_1
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9. May 2005 @ 07:31 |
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"I dont know everything, but I'm pretty close"
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jimbob2
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9. July 2005 @ 14:25 |
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Hi - another newbie here. I'm trying to connect a laptop to another monitor (my dad is getting on & wants a bigger screen). I've downloaded a bunch of drivers & right clicked & installed the profile for the monitor. Sure enough, when the laptop boots up, it is on the external monitor - but then there is a message - no signal, it goes black & the laptop screen comes on for the rest of the xp boot?
How do I sort this out without knacking it up?
Laptop - Acer
Monitor - iiyama LS704U Vision Master 1403
ICC Profile - LS704U
Windows - XP V5.1 with service pack 2
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Stinky_1
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9. July 2005 @ 16:24 |
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you should not need to install any dirvers for the ext monitor to work. Just close the lid on the laptop and it may switch to the external one.
Otherwise you will have to hit your FUNCTION (usually "FN") and then the button that toggles between laptop screen/External Monitor (and sometimes laptop screen at the same time)/ and TV out.
The FN button is on the lower left corner of my laptop, and the montior button is on the middle at the top.
"I dont know everything, but I'm pretty close"
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jimbob2
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10. July 2005 @ 04:49 |
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Cheers Stinky - it wasn't successful, but, I had a look in Control Panel & found a thing about 2 monitors - this worked. I'll try the other to connect the lappy to the tv to watch avi's.
Thanks for your time - Jim.
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jimbob2
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19. July 2005 @ 00:28 |
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Hi again - having sorted the external monitor thing, I am getting cocky - trying to connect the laptop to the tele. Got a variety of leads - the latest one is a panasonic camcorder 3 x phono plug from Maplin. Had a look is display properties & found the generic tv option. The TV is still blank with distorted scrolling grey lines (something is happening!!)
Laptop - Acer (Aspire 1360)
TV - Hitachi (using AV3 - sick of Scart leads
Graphics card - NVidia GeForce FX Go5200
Lead - 3 x phono Camcorder (plugged into audio on PC?)
Any help would be greatfully received & most welcome
Jim
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Stinky_1
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19. July 2005 @ 08:25 |
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um.... its just not going to happen! Look at the 3.5mm plug end, you should have 4 seperations on it. Your headphone plug only uses 3. And furthermore VIDEO is NEVER outputted from the headphone plug. Notunless you open it up and solder it around somehow.
"I dont know everything, but I'm pretty close"
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jimbob2
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19. July 2005 @ 15:34 |
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I had my doubts, but the bloke at Maplin was very convincing (for a newbie anyway).
Can it be done at all or do I have to convert my AVIs to MPEGs?
Once again - thanks for your time& patience
Jim
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AznX
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5. August 2005 @ 07:36 |
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Stinky_1
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5. August 2005 @ 07:49 |
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jim,
you should have some sort of tv out plug on your laptop. Newer ones usually have an svideo. It looks almoistt the same as a old PS/2 mouse/keyboard slot. If you tv has an svideo in as well then you can do it that way. You also need a 3.5mm to rca adapter to pplug your headphone jack into the audio in on your tv as well.
Then it should all work find.
"I dont know everything, but I'm pretty close"
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AznX
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5. August 2005 @ 08:04 |
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i keep getting fussy lines when i put 640x480 and the lowest refresh rate
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Stinky_1
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5. August 2005 @ 10:06 |
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could be the TV. Some tv's will get rea;;y screwy when trying to connect a laptop or PC to it.
Try 800X600 resolution instead.
"I dont know everything, but I'm pretty close"
Xzwer " are you mad? there is like 13 pages.." - When told to read through the post to find the answer to his question
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AznX
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5. August 2005 @ 17:28 |
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well i got my tv out to work on the laptop....but i didnt use that cable,i used the yellow port and tv-out wasnt couldnt be enabled before,but i guess since i fooled around with all the settings it worked. anybody wanna buy that cable off me?
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isuballr
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16. August 2005 @ 06:30 |
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My HP laptop has S-Video out so i connected that to the TV. However, the only thing that shows up on the TV is the Desktop picture from my monitor (only the pic, no icons or anything). Any ideas?
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newbie26
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27. September 2005 @ 01:17 |
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[Quote]My HP laptop has S-Video out so i connected that to the TV. However, the only thing that shows up on the TV is the Desktop picture from my monitor (only the pic, no icons or anything). Any ideas? [/QUOTE]
That's exactly the same problem with mine. All I see on the TV is the desktop wallpaper with no icons or programs. How do you guys get it to work??? is there something you must change?
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Stinky_1
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27. September 2005 @ 05:34 |
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slide the mouse just off the screen either up or down or sideways and I bet it will scroll over to the start buttons and your icons.
Your resolution is set too high. On my tv I need it set to 800X600 (the lowest it goes) and then it all fits. If it still doesnt fit at that resolution then its time for a new tv that supports those resolutions, or time to give up on using the laptop on the TV.
"I dont know everything, but I'm pretty close"
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jfried
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9. April 2006 @ 11:19 |
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HI...I currently own the sony Vaio VGNFS640W laptop. I want to connect it to my tv but im not sure exactly how to do it. I do not have a s video output. I believe that i need a vga connector of some type. I know how to do the audio im just not sure on exactly what I have to do in order to get the video. Any help will be greatly appreciated.
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heinie
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2. May 2006 @ 13:12 |
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I also have a Vaio fs640 and found that using the vga cable to go from my laptop to my JVC 52" LCOS didn't work. I got picture but it kept flipping. I tried setting the display settings to 640x480 but it didn't fix the problem. Would a pc to tv convertor remedy this?
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wolf85
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12. August 2006 @ 13:24 |
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i was wondering if anyone could help me. i'm trying to connect my laptop to my tv so that my desktop can show up and i can record my animations onto a vhs cassette. i have an audio and video-in connection on my tv but not an s-video connection. I bought an rca converter that allows me to connect my laptop to my tv with one of those composite cables. however, i cant get it to work. i'm not sure if i have a tv-out button or option on my laptop. any help would be greatly appreciated.
laptop: compaq presario
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