dapro911,
I?m pretty familiar with connecting to our television sets. Are you connecting using a 15-pin VGA connector to 15-pin VGA connector?
When you toggle your laptop (Dells, for instance use Function-F7 and Function-F8 to toggle the video card output to transmit the signal to the 15-pin out) does either the monitor or tv flash, flicker or give you any kind of indication that a signal is trying to be processed?
I might also suggest checking to see if you have an updated video driver available for your laptop. I?d also suggest that you set your resolution on lower settings and work your way up, rather than higher settings and working your way down.
Let me know!
when i connect my laptop to my tv i do it the way it says in the how to on there website and it says mode not supported..ive tried different refresh rates and resolutions and i get the same result.i have vista home premium 32bit on my hp laptop.

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