wayneepalmer
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When using a TV as a monitor, patience is a virtue as well - along with creativity and most importantly GET TO KNOW THE FUNCTIONS AND FEATURES OF YOUR VIDEO CARD, YOUR PC, AND YOUR TV.
80% of the time the problems many people face have to do with incorrect settings on either end (and maybe 20% of a simple case of obsolete or weak hardware - that is usually at the PC end).
Some TV's have a specific HDMI port for PC's (found THAT one out the hard way). If you are only looking for 720p, the old VGA port is fine to use. Make sure your video card is up to the task and all of the capabilities of your pc are set to maximum normal function or auto.
I just went thru a "3 days of my spare time wasted" exercise in upgrading from a 32" Samsung LCD 720p to a 46" 1080p Sharp Quattron that wouldn't play DVD's from my wife's HP m8530f desktop BECAUSE HP defaulted the BIOS to keeping the "Virtualization" option disabled - which caused a huge fight with the wife when I wanted to buy a newer Nvidia GTX460 and move the Nvidia GTS250 to her pc in place of the 9300 GE.
Unless your gear is just to old or weak to run the HDTV, usually you just need to keep hunting and asking for help to find the right settings.
You'd be surprised at how old pc gear can even drive an HDTV - I moved the 32" Samsung to our bedroom pc (e7400, ASROCK AGP/PCI-e) with a Radian ATI AIW 9800 pro 128 AGP (no tuner software though) and am running it on the dvi port - it works fine and it surfs the net, plays my wife's games, and we watch dvd's on it.
80% of the time the problems many people face have to do with incorrect settings on either end (and maybe 20% of a simple case of obsolete or weak hardware - that is usually at the PC end).
Some TV's have a specific HDMI port for PC's (found THAT one out the hard way). If you are only looking for 720p, the old VGA port is fine to use. Make sure your video card is up to the task and all of the capabilities of your pc are set to maximum normal function or auto.
I just went thru a "3 days of my spare time wasted" exercise in upgrading from a 32" Samsung LCD 720p to a 46" 1080p Sharp Quattron that wouldn't play DVD's from my wife's HP m8530f desktop BECAUSE HP defaulted the BIOS to keeping the "Virtualization" option disabled - which caused a huge fight with the wife when I wanted to buy a newer Nvidia GTX460 and move the Nvidia GTS250 to her pc in place of the 9300 GE.
Unless your gear is just to old or weak to run the HDTV, usually you just need to keep hunting and asking for help to find the right settings.
You'd be surprised at how old pc gear can even drive an HDTV - I moved the 32" Samsung to our bedroom pc (e7400, ASROCK AGP/PCI-e) with a Radian ATI AIW 9800 pro 128 AGP (no tuner software though) and am running it on the dvi port - it works fine and it surfs the net, plays my wife's games, and we watch dvd's on it.
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