Re: Questions on how to connect computer to TV

On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 11:48:44 -0700 Winfield <doghouse@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
| phil-news-nospam@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
 wrote:
|> On Tue, 29 Apr 2008 08:04:02 -0400 Tim <jmeth111@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote:
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|> | DVI is not the best because you don't get to see the entire booting
of 
|> | the computer. This is not a problem unless there is a problem.
|> | With DVI, at least under Windows, the image doesn't start showing on
the 
|> | TV until the driver is started, and this doesn't seem to occur until 
|> | Windows has pretty much started up.
|> 
|> Interesting.  On my computer, I get to see the system booting up
through DVI
|> just fine, right from the BIOS.  Maybe it's because I have Linux
installed?
|> Of course that would make no sense since it's an issue before the OS
even
|> gets started.  Maybe a bad TV that can't do computer displays
correctly?
|> Not only is this plausible, it is known to exist.  The only question in
my
|> mind is whether that is a problem due to incompetent engineers or
incompetent
|> managers.  Unfortunately, both are in great abundance.
| 
| On my setup, I can only see boot process if HDTV is turned on and viewed

| (only)there.  Computer monitor remains blank and activates for logon 
| screen and thereafter.
| 
| It may be a function of how the video-card / motherboard chipset is set 
| up.  I have nVidia drivers and hardware.  Setup was a bit messy for 
| computer monitor and TV.

If the card has dual output, one analog and one digital, it may be
functionally
a dual-display card, with the BIOS outputting on analog and the graphical
driver
outputting on DVI.

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