Viewing Your Computer Display on a TV

    You can use your video card's TV/S-video port to send your computer display to a compatible television or monitor.

TV Out setup

To connect your computer to a television:

    1. If your television has an S-video port, connect the video card's S-video port to the television's S-video in port using an S-video cable (not supplied).
      - OR -
      If your television does not have an S-video port, connect the video card's S-video port to the television's composite video in port using the TV out cable (supplied) and a composite video cable (not supplied).
    1. If you want to send your computer sound to a compatible television or monitor, connect your computer's speaker/audio out jack to your television's audio in jacks using a 1/8" stereo audio cable (not supplied) and a 1/8"-to-RCA Y-patch cable (not supplied).

 

    Activating TV Out

      When you send your computer's video output to the TV, your computer monitor will go blank. You cannot view video on your TV and computer monitor at the same time.

      Important

      Connect your TV to the video card's TV out jack before starting your computer.

      To activate TV Out:

        1. Connect the video cable(s) from the computer to the TV.

        2. Start your computer.

        3. Click Start, then select Settings, then Control Panel. The Control Panel window opens.

        4. Double-click the Display icon. The Display Properties window opens.

        5. Click your video card's TV tab (such as the Output Device tab).
          - OR -
          If you don't see your video card's TV tab, click the Settings tab, click Advanced, then click the TV tab (such as the 3dfx TV tab).

        1. Send the video signal to your TV by clicking Enable output to TV. Different brands of video cards may have slightly different wording of this option, such as Output Device: TV.

        2. Click OK. A message tells you that settings will be changed and that your normal desktop will be restored in fifteen seconds if the desktop does not appear correctly on the TV.

        3. Click OK. The video signal is sent to your TV, your computer monitor goes blank, and a window opens asking if you want to keep this setting.

        4. Click Yes.

          You can now use your TV as your computer's display. Restore the display back to your computer monitor by following the above steps, except choose to send the signal to the computer monitor instead of the TV.