batorideikou
05-07-08, 10:02 PM
I apologize in advance for the book here, I just wanted to make sure I was thorough. I recently got a Samsung 40" LCD HD and upon getting it, I purchased a DVI/HDMI cable with which to connect my PC so I can watch videos on the big screen without having to go through pain in the ass video converting and such. I connected it and there was "No Signal" displayed under HDMI2 which was the port I connected it to. Evidently it picked something up because it only shows the sources that have something connected to them when you press the source button on the remote. I used the nvidia desktop software and this actually made it work. I used the "clone" mode, and it worked fine, except having to change resolutions and options everytime I connect the PC. Is there a way to connect the PC 'directly' to the TV without having to play with settings on the PC? When I do connect them, my desktop resolution gets so I have to "scroll" around with my mouse because they size increases to fit the resolution of the TV. Which brings me to my second point. When I initially connected the monitor and it was detected on the PC, it showed up just fine. Now when I switched back to the monitor view, the monitor still works, but the properties under the "Settings" tab under display properties still shows that the TV is the monitor. Even when I physically disconnected the TV it still says that the TV is the main monitor. And when I removed it in System under Control Panel, it still shows " on Samsung" as an option. I find this strange. Also, whenever I tried to straighten that out last night, the monitor came back on and had a bunch of green "noise" pixels on the screen. And then it would black out, come back, black out, like it was changing resolutions or something. It kinda scared me because I didn't want my monitor to try a resolution it didn't like and "blow up". I've been using it with the "clone" option since, and that brings me to point 3. Last night whenever I came in, I tried turning the TV on and it took several tries of the power button on both the remote and TV itself to get it to come on. The LED on the front would show activity when I pressed the button but I would wait upwards of 20 seconds and nothing, sometimes it would blink a few times and then go out. And randomly it would come on. Once it was on however, it would turn off at the first button press, heh. I was worried that the TV was having problems, but I remembered that I had just installed the DVI/HDMI cable that afternoon. Upon unplugging it, everything went back to normal. The TV comes on with one button press, normal 2-3 seconds waiting time. I'm wondering, is there some sort of interference coming from the PC? (And yes, the PC was on at the time, it's hardly ever off) And is there a fix for it? And the biggie: playing with these resolutions and the PC and TV getting mixed up in the display properties and such, I've heard that you can also break the TV with the wrong res, could the interference factor and switching the display so often effectively break the TV? Oh, also I think it'd go without saying, but I'll say it anyway: the graphics card has 2 video outs and both the monitor and the TV are hooked up at the same time. (I don't know how you'd mirror it without the monitor being connected, but I figured I'd spell it out, I don't mean to insult anyone's intelligence, really) I just basically want to know if there's a simple way of connecting the PC to the TV without having to go through the rigmarole of tweaking the nvidia software everytime and having to mirror the displays thus changing the res everytime, and if the TV is in any danger from doing this through the software so often?