eaton.k,
Actually, this seems to be a driver compatibility. If you can see the Windows screen loading, and then it shuts off, it's switching from the POST settings to the OS settings, and that's where the problem lies. It essentially stops sending a usable signal to the television.
You might try updating your BIOS, and then video driver to the latest one, and then turn off your overscan in the video card settings (if it's there) to 0%.
VGA sends an analog signal. DVI to HDMI may work, but the resolution of the plasma should match the resolution being sent from the video card exactly.
--HDTech
QUESTION : WILL DVI TO HDMI DISPLAY WHAT VGA TO VGA WONT?
Hey,
So I got a 42 Samsung, PN-(something). Anyways, when I hook the TV to the PC via VGA it gets to the Windows screen, then the TV says (mode not supported) The only way that Ive been able to get around this is hook the PC to my 20 inch tube at the same time, use the tube as primary, plasma as 2nd, and then swap once windows loads by changing the plasma to primary and unplugging the tube.
My problem is, once i reboot (even though i set the res on my profile to 800x600) i get the same thing. Can someone please tell me, will it be different if i went from DVI out from the PC to HDMI into the TV? Or is it a setting that I have to change in the Bios.
IM USING WIN XP

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