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i decided to buy a LCD TV instead of LCD monitor. I have yet to buy a CPU. Yesterday i decided to test how vista appears on my LCD TV. so i and my friend (owns a sony vaio running vista) decided to test it out. we connected the lap top to the LCD via the PC input (VGA/D-sub 15 pin).
Now here is the problem: we started the TV, we started the Laptop, the laptop detects a secondary display attached to it. we configured it, but due to some reason that we are unable to find out, the LCD is refusing to detect a input at the PC input. Samsung LCD that i have has a feature (mine is LA26A450 model) that they toggle only between those sources which are connected. When i went to the menu for selected the input, the PC input is disabled, meaning it does not detect the input (we also tried the Fn+F5 key for secondary display on the lappy). So i called another friend who has a laptop (compaq, very old, just 256 MB ram, running XP). we tried the same thing but same result, the PC input stays disabled. We also tried varying the resolutions, from highest to lowest and also played around with the refresh rate. the recommeded is 60 Hz by the TV manual.
I did some googling, where i found that some samsung LCD, not my particular model have compatibility issues with the sony vaio but they work fine with desktops, so i called another friend with his CPU and keyboard mouse (intel core2duo 3GHz, 945 intel chipset, running vista, 2 GB ram). The desktop boots (We can hear the welcome note) but still the LCD does not detect the PC input.
Does any body know what am i doing wrong? or what will make it work?
Now here is the problem: we started the TV, we started the Laptop, the laptop detects a secondary display attached to it. we configured it, but due to some reason that we are unable to find out, the LCD is refusing to detect a input at the PC input. Samsung LCD that i have has a feature (mine is LA26A450 model) that they toggle only between those sources which are connected. When i went to the menu for selected the input, the PC input is disabled, meaning it does not detect the input (we also tried the Fn+F5 key for secondary display on the lappy). So i called another friend who has a laptop (compaq, very old, just 256 MB ram, running XP). we tried the same thing but same result, the PC input stays disabled. We also tried varying the resolutions, from highest to lowest and also played around with the refresh rate. the recommeded is 60 Hz by the TV manual.
I did some googling, where i found that some samsung LCD, not my particular model have compatibility issues with the sony vaio but they work fine with desktops, so i called another friend with his CPU and keyboard mouse (intel core2duo 3GHz, 945 intel chipset, running vista, 2 GB ram). The desktop boots (We can hear the welcome note) but still the LCD does not detect the PC input.
Does any body know what am i doing wrong? or what will make it work?
BUT it switches to PC when I press PC button on the remote. I too tried to connect my friend's Compaq laptop to my screen but nothing happened. I suggest u better get that LCD monitor 