riva tnt2 external display problems

**burty** · January 24th, 2009, 12:44 PM

hi can any1 help me ive got a riva tnt2 graphics card it all works fine with my monitor but i want to plug it in to my tv ive plugged it in and gone into my nvidia setting and my second tv is not showing im assuming it should say monitor 1 and monitor 2 and i should be able to click on the second 1 and my desktop should apear on my tv but its not i down loaded drivers from nvidia and it allows me to do everything eles so just cant get second telly to work i hope some1 can help me

thanks burty

**NooNoo** · January 24th, 2009, 02:19 PM

Welcome to Windrivers Burty

Did you tick the box to clone your desktop to the second monitor, while the second monitor was selected from the drop down box in display settings?

How have you connected the riva to the TV - what are the plugs on each end of the cable you have used?

**burty** · January 24th, 2009, 03:44 PM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Welcome to Windrivers Burty

Did you tick the box to clone your desktop to the second monitor, while the second monitor was selected from the drop down box in display settings?

How have you connected the riva to the TV - what are the plugs on each end of the cable you have used?

hi thank you so much for your reply theres 2 boxes at the bottom 1 says make this your primary display and the other is to disable auto panning the boxes i cant tick or untick as they are not letting do it at the top of same page its only stating monitor 1 im surposed to have 1 and 2 showing the leads im using 1 of them is like a 5 pin dim plug from the graphics card to the the scart plug then into the telly ,the other way i tryed is the yellow phono socket to the phono socket on the front of the telly plug each way i tryed i also selected the propper channel on the tv like av1 and av2 oh and i clicked the botton on the pc screen on the nvidia page detect displays but thats not helping eather

thanks brett

**Ferrit** · January 24th, 2009, 10:13 PM

Did you reboot the PC "after" you connected the television?
So that the video card sensed a signal from it.

**NooNoo** · January 25th, 2009, 03:07 AM

Have you tried going into control panel to the nview nvidia applet and set it up there?

**burty** · January 25th, 2009, 08:29 AM

Originally Posted by NooNoo

Have you tried going into control panel to the nview nvidia applet and set it up there?

hi thank you all for your replies i have rebooted with it plugged in and set it up through control panel way and right clicking on my nvidia logo that takes me to the right place but still nothing at the moment im begining to think my card is faulty im not sure

thanks burty

**NooNoo** · January 25th, 2009, 09:26 AM

check through this tutorial

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