Help connecting external display (TV)

foomex

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Im on an HP530 with Vista Home 32bit.
I wanted to see some videos on my TV (Sony Trinitron XBR) which is "kinda" old and does not sport a VGA in connection.

I bought a VGA to RCA cable and got it today so I connected the male VGA to the computer and the RCA to the TV and the laptop is not recognizing anything.

Am I missing something? The VGA-RCA cable ALSO has a SVideo female and also tried that one.

I already clicked the windows key+x to add it manually thru the "mobility" settings.

HELP? I want to see House :(
Thanks a bunch!
 

My Computer

You have to switch the TV to the correct video source for your RCA or Svideo. Then, you need to set you display to video out.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
    Motherboard
    Supermicro X7DWA-N server board
    Memory
    16GB DDR667
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card
    Hard Drives
    SAS RAID
Thanks SCSIraidGURU but it is still not working :(
is there some kind of "switch" for the video card to "release" the image to the TV?

The video card is from Intel... if more info on the card would help I'll let you know in a while.
Thanks again.
 

My Computer

Your video card should have a TV out setting you need to switch to.
 

My Computer

System One

  • CPU
    pair of Intel E5430 quad core 2.66 GHz Xeons
    Motherboard
    Supermicro X7DWA-N server board
    Memory
    16GB DDR667
    Graphics Card(s)
    eVGA 8800 GTS 640 MB video card
    Hard Drives
    SAS RAID
Thing is, when I connected the laptop on an AOC LCD from VGA to VGA it did it automatically, that's why I'm afraid my VGA-RCA adaptor wont work now :(

Anyway, anyone knows how to manually turn on the TVOUT switch from the following card:
Mobile Intel(R) 945GM/GU Express Chipset Family

Thanks again.
 

My Computer

Thing is, when I connected the laptop on an AOC LCD from VGA to VGA it did it automatically, that's why I'm afraid my VGA-RCA adaptor wont work now :(

Anyway, anyone knows how to manually turn on the TVOUT switch from the following card:
Mobile Intel(R) 945GM/GU Express Chipset Family

Thanks again.
monitors are signal based, if the monitor is switched on, it will detect the input automatically, since you are connecting with more than one cable connection, the tv doesnt have the ability to "find" the signal, so it must be manually configured, however the composite signal should be detected through your TV, this shouldnt be displayed on your laptop, im not familiar with the software that is used for that graphics array, so i cannot help you enable tv out. but if you right click the icon in the bottom right hand corner, you should have an option to open the display settings, and i believe from there you click on display devices.
 

My Computer

System One

  • Manufacturer/Model
    Custom Build
    CPU
    Intel Q6600 @ 2.8GHz
    Motherboard
    Evga NF78-CK-132-A 3-Way SLI
    Memory
    8Gb DDR2 Corsair Dominator @ 1066Mhz 5-5-5-15
    Graphics Card(s)
    EVGA 560 GTX SC FTW 1GB
    Sound Card
    Realtek ALC888 7.1 Audio, Logitech G35 7.1 Surround Headset
    Monitor(s) Displays
    Dell S2409W 16:9, HDMi, DVI & VGA
    Screen Resolution
    1920 x 1080
    Hard Drives
    Samsung 7200rpm 250Gb SATA,
    Samsung 7200rpm 750Gb SATA,
    WD 7200rpm 1TB SCSI SATA.
    PSU
    Xigmatek 750W Quad sli quad core 80% eff
    Case
    Antec 900 Gaming Case
    Cooling
    Zalman CNPS9700-NT NVIDIA Tritium, Dominator RAM cooler
    Keyboard
    Logitech generic keyboard
    Mouse
    Razor Lachesis Banshee V2 Blue, 4000DPI
    Internet Speed
    16Mb Sky bb
    Other Info
    Wireless Gaming Receiver for Windows, Wireless Xbox 360 Pad, Wireless Xbox 360 Les Paul Guitar
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