Laptop to TV - trouble using s-video scart

[louisewalshe]

Hi guys

Sorry I've searched through the other threads but can't find a way to make this work. Here's the current setup:

• there is an s-video port on my laptop
• I have an s-video cable going from the laptop to a scart AV
• next, I have a stereo mini-jack adapter plugged into headphone output of laptop, connected to this is an RCA cable
• the other end of the RCA cable connects to the scart
• the scart is plugged into the back of the TV

I have several AV channels available on my TV (EXT-1, EXT-2, EXT-2 S, BAV, HDMI and YPbPr). On each of these I can switch between default (stereo), Dual I or Dual II.

What I've done so far is use the N-Videa control panel to force TV detection, then restarted my laptop and from the cp selected clone, so that my laptop and TV should both be displaying my laptop screen. I switched between all the AV channels but still sign of my laptop on any of them.

Another thread suggested keeping the TV on the desired channel and restarting the computer. I tried this also but still nothing.

If anyone could offer any other suggestions it would be much appreciated, this stuff is fairly new to me!

 

[EDO219]

Whoa ... a laptop with an S-Video output and a TV that uses SCART. That's a combination I personally don't see very often.

Instead of your laptop, try connecting something simple to the same AV on your SCART such as a DVD player or a game system. Whether or not that works will tell you if the issue lies with your TV or your laptop.

There might be little labels above the F keys on your laptop. Once I had a VAIO that would only output to another display if I held down Fn and pressed a specific F key. The Windows menus wouldn't do anything, strangely.

 

[nismo91]

same problem with a vaio fe notebook (geforce go 7600) since few years back. gave up.

-add

btw im not sure if this thing worked but i saw this "VGA to Component" cable before. I was about to purchase it until the staff told me it will not work. weird, so i did not buy it.