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More info?)
i think i have your solution.....
go into display properties/settings/advanced....click 'overlay' tab, clone
mode options, and on overlay display mode, click 'theater mode'.
i installed an ATI AIW9000 and it took me weeks to figure this out, hope
it's the same for you!
<anonymous@discussions.microsoft.com> wrote in message
news:1c66301c421ab$76a75ae0$a101280a@phx.gbl...
> If your video is playing on your laptop and not the
> external monitor, you may just have to change your
> primary monitor settings. Very easy to do:
>
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/productdoc/e
> n/default.asp?
> url=/WINDOWSXP/home/using/productdoc/en/display_multi_moni
> tors_select_primary.asp
>
> TJ Evans
> Microsoft Corporation
>
>
> This posting is provided "AS IS" with no warranties, and
> confers no rights.
>
> >-----Original Message-----
> >On Tue, 13 Apr 2004 12:28:59 +0200, "Gandalf G."
> ><G.Gladstone@imaginary.com> wrote:
> >
> >>
> >>"Dick" <LeadWinger> schreef in bericht
> >>news:9n0n70tfub4cjog15fk9t416qfeo9lvvhi@4ax.com...
> >>| Running Windows XP Home. HP Pavilion laptop with ATI
> 9200 video.
> >>| S-Video direct from laptop to Sony receiver. TV sees
> Windows desktop,
> >>| etc., so the S-Video connection is OK, but the
> picture from the DVD is
> >>| black. Audio is coming through OK. This is with any
> DVD, including
> >>| home movies. Is it possible that the DVD+R format
> somehow can't be
> >>| read by the TV? This has been driving me crazy.
> >>|
> >>| Dick
> >>
> >>Do a search with Google and you'll find an answer, like
> these ones!
> >>Gandalf G.
> >>http://www.google.nl/search?
> q=how+to+connect+dvd+to+tv&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-
> 8&hl=nl&btnG=Google+zoeken&lr=
> >>
> >
> >Thanks, but it's not an S-Video problem as far as I can
> tell. I see
> >on the TV everything I see on the laptop screen, it's
> just that the
> >video screen in the software shows black. It's playing
> on the laptop
> >OK.
> >.
> >