Connecting PC to TV

May 22, 2008

- Just an update. I know now how to fix the problem, but I don't know how to stop the problem from happening.

How I fixed it was to go on my computer with the s-video cable and right click my desktop to personalize. I then clicked display settings while my s-video cable and rgb cable were plugged in even though the rgb cable wasn't showing a picture it did show as the second screen for my display settings.
I think it was either when I "extended my desktop" to the second screen (the one connected to my rgb pc cable) or when I kept changing around the resolution on my second screen (and checking what happened) that I could finally see my desktop on my rgb connected screen. Then I just clicked in Vista to make my second screen "my main monitor" and when I went back to my rgb screen it worked.

A few days later the problem happened again, and I had to shut down the computer manually unplug the rgb cable and turn it back on so it only detected the s-video cable and made that one my main monitor again so I could sign in.

When I play around with the "display settings" like I did last time it will evantually turn back on my rgb screen (a little dim at first, but it fixes itself after an hour or so) so I know the solution.

I just need to know how to stop it from happening altogether now.