Can I have both my analog TV and computer hooked to my PC at the same time? Thanks for any help! Jeff
Fair enough. How can I tell? It's an NVIDIA GeFORCE FX5200 ULTRA VIDEO CARD W/S-VIDEO OUTPUT (128MB). Thanks for the reply. : ) Jeff
do you mean that you want to display stuff from your computer on both? if so hook the s video output to ur analog tv, right click on your desktop, select properties, click on the settings tab, in the box it should show both monitors, select monitor #2 set ur color quality and resolution and click the "Extend my windows desktop onto this monitor" click apply and you should be able to drag things over to the tv screen and you'll still be able to use your computer monitor also. it'll act like one wide wide monitor.
OK, I tried that (thanks for the help). But that's just plain weird, the two acting as an extra wide monitor! I just wanted my monitor and TV to display the exact same thing at the same time. Jeff
1Shado: With the FX5200, you have to activate Nview, and you set up the displays as 1) The computer monitor and 2) the TV. Then you can turn on DUALVIEW. This way, you can have your Desktop on your PC monitor, but by default any Windows Media Player, WinAMP, or Quicktime moovies will play on your TV screen. For that to work, you have to have your Overlay set right. It is hard to just tell you what to do, you kind of have to tweek with it, especially with the Nvidia chipset. My Asus 7700 will NOT show on TV and Monitor at the same time, but that is an older chipset. The FX5200 has DUALVIEW capabilities and it works good. You have to go to your Advanced Property Sheet for the 5200: There will be Nvidia branding on it: If it is not there, you have to install the Forceware that came with the card, it will turn on all that stuff. In the advanced properties, you will see "Overlay Control" and you have to tell it Zoom Control Automatic: Then go to the "full screen video" control and make sure that the full screen video is turned ON. Now, none of the stuff even can be accessed unless you have the S-Video Out plugged into the TV and the TV is receiving the signal: The only way you can tell, is if, when you boot up the PC, you see the POST on your TV screen as well as on the PC Monitor: If you do not see the POST (The BIOS Boot Up) on both screens, you ain't got it set up right, check your settings on the TV and make sure that you have the proper output from the video card hooked up to the TV Input. With today's TVs' even simple TVs like mine, it has several inputs, there is a front Component video input, there is a side input, and there is an S-Video input in the back: just finding the settings on the remote to activate the input is difficult, so you will have to have all your users manuals out when you go about to set this up. Hope any of this helps, good luck.
Oh Yah: Looks like you have it set up for Horizontal Span Mode: Change the setting to DUALview, and then you can watch moovies on your TV but then work on stuff on your regular monitor. You can even control where in real space the placement of the TV is going to be: The TV will be represented by the smaller box in the Nview Mode Selection screen: Just grab that and put it where your TV is, on the right or left of the computer monitor.
Thanks for the help, guys! Your advice was good! I ended up finding something called Nvidia TV Wizard, which gave me the choices of Dualview, and clone. I set it to clone, because I may want to see everything that appears on my monitor on my TV. Works great, except that when I try to play a DVD (using Windows media player, for example), it shows up fine on my pc monitor, and the windows media player window also shows up on my TV, but the window on the TV remains blank, while at the same time I'm getting a picture on my pc monitor. Strange. Any ideas? Thanks again for all the great help so far! Jeff
