or try a different resolution on the laptop or make sure that the laptop was actually pushing out video from its VGA port?
I bought a VGA cable to connect laptop to tv. But, on the tv, it whos "mode not supported." I have Samsung LN32A330J1D, it's 32in. I don't get what seems to be the problem.

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