Problem connecting TV to PC

Ste59w

Ste59w

Ste59w

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Hi guys,

Just purchased a £500 build from OC for my first attempt at an own build. Great service and great forum community!

Anyway, my build went well - nothing blew up anyway which i assume is a good sign!

On to my problem, to which i hope someone can help :-

I have a 22 inch LCD Monitor that i have plugged into the normal slot on my 4850 graphics card - no problems as you'd expect. I also have a 22 inch flat panel HDready TV made by Acoustic Solutions - Cheap and cheerfull TV.

I have tried to plug in the TV to the graphics card via the HDMI slot on the graphics card and also tried to connect it straight to the HDMI on my motherboard.

In my catalyst control centre it is not picking up the second monitor(TV). If i click 'Force detection' it picks up what it thinks is a HDTV, great - however the icon is greyed out and i cannot do anything with it - i cant drag it over to create a 'Window 2' and i cant right click to 'Run 1 display on both monitors' - basically i am not getting a signal to the TV at all.

I'm completely stuck and would appreciate some guidance from those of you in the know!

Thanks in advance
 
hi,

Make sure that in windows screen resolution options, you have set it to extend these displays.

Using Vista - Right click on desktop and choose Personalize -Open displays settings -Extend the desktop.
 
Hey,

I've tried to do that using catalyst and windows display options. When i click extend my desktop it just refreshes my normal monitor and nothing happens on the TV
 
When you say 'setting up windows to run dual screen' what do you mean exactly please?

I was under the impression they just plugged straight in to pc and could be setup using display manager or catalyst control centre. As i said its picking the Tv up as a HDTV but wont let me extend the desktop to it or do anything with it. Don't think there's any other connections on the Tv for a Pc, and id prefer to use HDMI if possible :/

Am i missing something simple?
 
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