I have a HP Pavilion that has a VGA out and S-Video out. I want to hook up a monitor and tv at the same time.?

Question

I have no problem being able to do one at a time, and have got them both to work separtley, but I cant get them to work at the same time. I realize that video is going to be crappy on the s-video out, but I plan on just using that to watch video.

I dont want to hook both of them into to the tv. I would like to hook both of them into my laptop. My laptop has a VGA output and a S-Vidoe Output

My laptop does have a dual monitor setting, but that only takes car of the laptop monitor and the VGA output. I want three monitors (one of which is a TV coming out of S-Video) at the same time.

Answer 1

You have three displays:

VGA external
S-Video external
LCD internal.

You should be able to pick two.

So if you have the internal LCD active, you can only have one or the other external outputs, not both.

Answer 2

Try this. I assume you have Windows XP by the way. Click Start, and then click Control Panel. Find Display (or Appearance and Themes, then Display if you have category view selected) Then click the Advanced tab at the top of the window that comes up. Click Settings. On the window that comes up you will probably have a tab with your video card type, either Nvidia or ATI, listed on it (ie Nvidia FX 5500 or ATI Radeon 7500 or something similar) Click that tab and it should have a button with something like "Start (Nvidia or ATI) control panel". Click that and one of the settings will have dual monitor setup, if your video card supports it.

Answer 3

You cant hook both to the TV. If you use S-video connection input to the TV, the TV VGA input is over-ridden by the S-Video connection.

Answer 4

Hi. Your graphics software should have a "dual monitor" setting if it will support two outputs at once.