Hi,

I want to connect a DELL INSPIRON 5150 Laptop to my Philips 42PFL5522D/05LCD screen TV. I bought a cable that has an HDMI in one end and a DVI on the other end. Then, I used an adapter to adapt DVI to VGA because my computer has VGA socket. Then I used Audio L/A cable exactly as shown on the manual. Once connected, I set my laptop monitor's refresh frequency to 60 Hz and adjusted the laptop resolution to the highest possible. But it did not work! Am I using the wrong cable? Any suggestions will be very much appreciated.


Thanks.
B

make sure u change the output to >option on your laptop to external monitor

I am running XP Home. How can I do that please?

right click the desktop then choose output to

Hi,

I want to connect a DELL INSPIRON 5150 Laptop to my Philips 42PFL5522D/05LCD screen TV. I bought a cable that has an HDMI in one end and a DVI on the other end. Then, I used an adapter to adapt DVI to VGA because my computer has VGA socket. Then I used Audio L/A cable exactly as shown on the manual. Once connected, I set my laptop monitor's refresh frequency to 60 Hz and adjusted the laptop resolution to the highest possible. But it did not work! Am I using the wrong cable? Any suggestions will be very much appreciated.


Thanks.
B

Why? there's nothing here available yet in HD:confused:

right click the desktop then choose output to

I don't have this option on my machine!! Did you mean right click - propeties - ...etc?

Can you elaborate please? Thanks.

does your video card support external monitors?

I have extended my screen to another monitor in the past and that worked fine.

if you right click and go to properties does it recognize the tv as a monitor?

Do you mean in the second monitor under properties? No it does not.

then you wont be able to output to it if it cant recognize the monitor

I think the monitor was expecting digital input while the laptop was firing analog. I have bought another cable which as VGA in one end and 5 RGB cables in the other end and this should hopefully do it. I am going to trying within a few hours from now.

I think the monitor was expecting digital input while the laptop was firing analog. I have bought another cable which as VGA in one end and 5 RGB cables in the other end and this should hopefully do it. I am going to trying within a few hours from now.

Did it work?

No it did not! Actually just a simple S-Video cable fixed the problem.

No it did not! Actually just a simple S-Video cable fixed the problem.

Hi Bee,

Did you connect VGA to DVI and then S-Video?

If your lcd tv has a port for connecting anything then its simple with data transfer cable...

Not quite the same thing but somebody looking for an answer might come here.
My son-in-law wanted to use his laptop to play Blueray dvds on his TV, HDMI to HDMI, but got a protection error. Ordinary discs no problem, so went back to shop where he was told that it took their techies a while to find the problem solution - you have to turn the lap top monitor off for the Blueray to work. Quite why you would leave it on his another question but anyway I thought this might help somebody someday.

Brian

Did you manage to solve the problem Bee?

This always works for me http://howtohacklife101.blogspot.com/2011/10/how-to-connect-laptop-to-tv.html