TV Out problem

eco21

Hi,

I have a Dell Inspiron 5160 which has a TV Out at the back, I want to connect this up using a cable that I bought which connects a 4pin S-Video into the back of the laptop to a scart cable which has seperate red/white RCA? cables for sound.

The thing is my laptop has a nine pin s-video connector so the 4pin cable i going into the 9 pin socket at the back of my laptop.

I have connected it, but nothing seems to happen,

Any one have a clue?

Cheers

cargo

Hmmm! I never realised my laptop had a 9 pin s video connection.
I have Dell inspiron 6000.
Whilst in Aldi last week I bought a scart s-video connection kit "impulse buy as it was cheap"
I assumed you would just connect one end to the tv and the other to the laptop but when I did this nothing happened.
I am thinking now that the s video cable I bought has 4 pins like yours.
Will keep an eye on this thread.
Good luck.

Sorry I canne help ya.

zappahey

The 9-pin socket is to take a Dell adaptor which gives S-video out, composite video out and digital audio out. Having said that it's configured that a standard s-video cable works.

If you haven't done so, try hooking the cable up before switching on the laptop and see if that helps.

I don't know which graphics option you have but some have an option to turn on the tv-out in the display settings.

sco0ter

my laptop has a hotkey to turn on tv out. it can also be done from the display options panel

eco21

Hi,

I had to download a driver for my graphics card which means I can turn the poutsput to tv, so it works good then.

Quality isnt good for anything except watching Divx or DVD's

basill

TV out may be turned off by default in the BIOS.

B