I purchased a vga male to male connector to connect my pc to my 32 inch samsung tv. When I turn my pc on it will not boot when it is conntacted to the tv but when I re-connect the pc to the old monitor it boots ok. I have looked at the packaging for the vga cable and noticed that it states it suitable for a monitor of 17 inches or less. Would this be way the pc does not boot when connected and if so how can I get around it. Graphics * NVIDIA® GeForce 7050 * 128MB Shared Graphics Memory Audio Interfaces * 1 x IEEE 1394 Port (6 Pin) (Rear) * DC in: Yes Card reader: Yes * 1 x Headphone Jack * 1 x Microphone Jack * RJ-45 Direct Port (Network) * 6 x USB Port (quantity) * 1 x VGA Connector for Monitor * 1 x Serial Port

Is the TV a tube type or and LCD?

"I purchased a vga male to male connector...." Do you mean a video extension cable with a vga male connector on each end? Are you connecting to a VGA port on the TV, or to a DVI port on the TV via a DVI to VGA adapter? The latter may not work. If your TV has both a DVI input port and a VGA input port, you probably can't use both at the same time - you have to use one or the other. If you are using a DVI to VGA adapter on the computer to adapt it to a DVI port, the adapter is standard as far as I know, but it won't work with some DVI ports; usually that only applies to some recent mboards with onboard video ports. However, if the monitor that works connects to such an adapter, or if the mboard came with such an adapter, that doesn't apply. Sometimes mboard bios settings will not allow the computer to boot if no monitor is detected. If there are two video ports, in this case on the mboard, sometimes you must connect a single monitor connection to the Primary port, not the Secondary one. In order for it to be detected as a monitor, the TV/monitor combo - must be on before booting the computer - the TV/monitor must be set to the monitor mode, via a button on the TV, or via a setting on the remote for it E.g. PC or VGA or Monitor, or similar. The Video or Video1, Video2, etc. setting is not the right setting - it's for something that outputs a standard TV out or HDTV out signal to the TV - e.g. a VCR/DVD combo, or a TV out or HDTV out connection from a video card - if your TV has the 3 component HD video jacks, the video card or mboard must have the three outputs available via an adapter to connect to that. The TV out or HDTV output is always inferior to the monitor ouptut. If that doesn't help - you may need a heftier cable from the video port to the TV. If the cable to the TV is considerably longer than the usual 6 feet or so, the cable should be specified as heavy duty or similar (the gauge of the individual wires is larger - the cable is often noticably thicker in that case), and if that isn't enough, you may need to amplify the signal as well. ..... If the computer does boot, the hard drive led blinks as it usually does while booting into Windows, but you get no display, if the TV is on and set to the proper mode, the video chipset's drivers may not be detecting the TV as a monitor correctly and in some cases you get no display, usually only after Windows starts to load, but sometimes even before Windows loads. In that case, boot by pressing F8 repeatedly till you see the boot choices menu, and choose Enable VGA mode. That loads Windows normally, except it forces the video to use default VGA drivers that all video chipsets and all mboards support. When you get to the desktop, RIGHT click on a blank area of the main screen, choose Properties (goes to Display Properties) - Settings - Advanced - Monitor and change the drivers to Plug and Play Monitor, or if you have the CD that came with the TV handy, choose Have Disk and find the monitor drivers on the CD - Windows is looking for an *.inf file - or if the CD has a selection to install the display drivers when you start it up, use that - save settings - reboot normally.