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TV-out not working!
Name: nemo27 Date: September 9, 2007 at 16:26:26 Pacific OS: Vista Home Premium CPU/Ram: Centrino Duo 2 x 1.67GHz Product: Acer - Aspire 5630
Comment:
Hello there, Little help needed, got a laptop here model- acer aspire 5630, it has a intel 945GM graphics chip, updated all drivers etc, and when I go into control panel, display and click extend to secondary display, it just doesnt work, and tv-out option isnt even in the options in the intel properties thing... it def has a tv-out port its plugged in and ive tried switching them off and rebooting, also searched google and this forum and cant find a single thing, except on the intel website http://www.intel.com/support/graphi... but the options they talk about arent even there. Sure am missing something here or being stupid, any help much appreciated. Cheers Mark
Name: Walter Mitty Date: September 9, 2007 at 23:53:36 Pacific
Reply:
Have you checked you BIOS settings ??
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Response Number 2
Name: nemo27 Date: September 10, 2007 at 00:36:24 Pacific
Reply:
Yeh nothing to enable tv-out....
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Response Number 3
Name: suatcini Date: September 10, 2007 at 01:56:48 Pacific
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Was the TV out option available before you updated the display adapter drivers or did you update the display adapter drivers because there was no TV out option in Display Properties and you wanted to get it there ?
Normally there is a combination of keys you press to switch between different outputs ? Do you have such keys on the keyboard of the laptop such as Fn key and F3 or F4 key or whatever ?
Regards
SuatCINI
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Response Number 4
Name: nemo27 Date: September 10, 2007 at 02:49:03 Pacific
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Updated the drivers because there was no option for tv-out in properties and thought it would help... and ive tried the fn + f5 and f7 keys to switch, still nothing. cheers
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Response Number 5
Name: suatcini Date: September 10, 2007 at 05:21:30 Pacific
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If you updated the drivers out of Acer's own web site , then you must contact Acer for the problem because I believe the display adapter drivers is not fully compatible with Vista. Otherwise you would have the TV out option somewhere either in Windows Display Properties or the graphics card maker's own software, if not a specific keyboard key combination.
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