Guest citrixcl Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 So i got my pretty new monitor. I can't do DVI with my 5150. I could go buy a DVI to VGA adapter but the lcd is DVI-D and the only outputs on my laptop are VGA D-Sub and S-Vdeo TVOut... I wanted to be using S-Video to connect to my LCD screen instead of vga because of the tiny improvement in quality and speed I hear about when using DVI or S-Video... but the drivers recognize the S-Video out as TV Out and while I can set a custom resolution to 1600x1200 the resolution the monitor gets is still NTSC or PAL and I can't get the monitor to read or display 1600x1200. with the custom resolution on the screen only shows up on about 75% of the monitor and the desktop is one of those scrolling ones where you have to move the cursor to the side to scroll to the rest of the desktop... the S-Video input is also blurry because it is in NTSC resolution according to the on screen display of the monitor. is there a way to get my drivers to see the TVOut as the LCD monitor (2001FP) like the VGA calls it instead of calling it TV. I think if i can convince my computer that the S-Video is not a TVOut but rather a LCD monitor it will send out a pretty digital signal with the quality of DVI. For now I just use VGA and its fine but I wanted to make use of my S-video cable and my monitors digital capability. i use Horizontal Spanning and sometimes Dualview. but no settings i can find make the monitor show a full screen of S-video without using the zoom function on the OSD. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LSudlow Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 Unfortunately, S-Video is an analog standard and there's no way to make it digital. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mobilenvidia Posted October 5, 2004 Report Share Posted October 5, 2004 The TV-out is limited to the TV-encoder chips capablaties, usualy 1024x768. There is nothing you can do here. You need to use the D-sub port to convert to DVI. The D-sub (Monitor out can go as far as 2048x1536) There is no other way this should also give the best quality (other than DVI-out). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest citrixcl Posted October 6, 2004 Report Share Posted October 6, 2004 well i would need a box to convert analog to digital in my case since the monitor has DVI-D and not DVI-I but that wouldnt accomplish anything since that is basically what hte mointor does itself i think with the vga input i am already giving it... oh well and no i stick to 1600x1200 which is the natural for both my laptop and the monitor Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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