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[asmith88]

Alls i can say is bring on bluetooth connections for everything and anything! (i love wirelesness!)

[minisilverbullet]

Yep afraid so its never a beautiful solution.
it is cheap though!

for the picture atleast you can buy the cabel type either (which you posted)
http://cgi.ebay.co.u...=item414a20c503

or

http
://cgi.ebay.co.uk/1-5m-SVGA-VGA-Monito...item45efc6627f


the second essentially turns your tv into a monitor. If at first the picture doesnt appear on the screen i suggest restarting the comp with the tv on and connected!

the cable posted by guessworks is teh one for sound!

Good luck

[benno1275]

i dont suppose you have a xbox 360 or a ps3 do you? if you have you can download connect360 from null river and steam everything wireless

[asmith88]

ok got the monitor wire and audi jack, it all works perfectly on my sisters 19 inch alba tv, but when i try to do it on the samsung 22" tv it doesnt work, i get sound perfectly but only a snapshot of my laptop screenaver appers on the tv, wont show what is happening on my laptop.

Also something very odd is happening with the mouse!, when i move it to the far right of my laptop screen it dissapers and goes to the far left of the tv screen!
Any ideas??

[Deathrow]

ok got the monitor wire and audi jack, it all works perfectly on my sisters 19 inch alba tv, but when i try to do it on the samsung 22" tv it doesnt work, i get sound perfectly but only a snapshot of my laptop screenaver appers on the tv, wont show what is happening on my laptop.

Also something very odd is happening with the mouse!, when i move it to the far right of my laptop screen it dissapers and goes to the far left of the tv screen!
Any ideas??

Try playing with the multi screen mode.

Press Fn + F4, it'll cycle through the display modes available (I also have an NC10). See if that helps.

[asmith88]

Try playing with the multi screen mode.

Press Fn + F4, it'll cycle through the display modes available (I also have an NC10). See if that helps.

Yup, im on multiscreen mode "2" with "extend my windows destop to this monitor" ticked.

F4 + fn doesnt seem to do anything!

[davidv]

I use a cheap FREECOM DVD very small and very good with free view from pc world they are cheap because you have to update the software for free on the web for it to work well and plug it to a real free view twig then run it on pc with microsoft free media scanner the cards are better at top range i have one in another pc but can not fit it in my new USA gold Pred. pc or i lost cover it was hard to get in UK. Top spec.Some tellys will not take game toys or pc .Its something to look for buying a new telly

[Deathrow]

Try playing with the multi screen mode.

Press Fn + F4, it'll cycle through the display modes available (I also have an NC10). See if that helps.

Yup, im on multiscreen mode "2" with "extend my windows destop to this monitor" ticked.

F4 + fn doesnt seem to do anything!

Are you holding function (little blue Fn) then pressing F4? It should at bare minimum, come up with an icon claiming "LCD" in the middle.

For the sake of testing, scrap "Extend my windows desktop to this monitor". Can you set the monitors as "Dual View" or even "Clone"?

[asmith88]

I use a cheap FREECOM DVD very small and very good with free view from pc world they are cheap because you have to update the software for free on the web for it to work well and plug it to a real free view twig then run it on pc with microsoft free media scanner the cards are better at top range i have one in another pc but can not fit it in my new USA gold Pred. pc or i lost cover it was hard to get in UK. Top spec.Some tellys will not take game toys or pc .Its something to look for buying a new telly

I dont realy understand, this is my mum and dads new tv, when i get one believe me it WILL have bluetooth! Anyway are you saying that the samsung tv might not be compatable with windows xp driver?

[asmith88]

Are you holding function (little blue Fn) then pressing F4? It should at bare minimum, come up with an icon claiming "LCD" in the middle.

For the sake of testing, scrap "Extend my windows desktop to this monitor". Can you set the monitors as "Dual View" or even "Clone"?

yeah im holding fn and f4, still doing nothing, when i untick "extend my windows destop to this monitor" i loose exerything, tv just goes blank, No clone or dual view that i can see

[asmith88]

ive got it to use the tv as a monito but now the laptop monitor is blank! spose it will do the job for now, strange though!

[Deathrow]

ive got it to use the tv as a monito but now the laptop monitor is blank! spose it will do the job for now, strange though!

It's the Fn + F4 thing that would normally manage that. Seems odd that it's not working on yours, have you re-installed the laptop since you've had it?