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Geek Culture / VGA cable?

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 7th Jan 2010 20:20
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i have a VGA cable and i want to hook it up to my HD lcd tv and my laptop has all of the correct hookups and fits perfectly but the picture wont show up on my computer. why?

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 7th Jan 2010 21:01
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The VGA cable is for making your laptop display on the TV, not the other way around as implied by your last sentence. You'll probably need to configure it in your video card settings to put your laptop display on the HDTV.

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 7th Jan 2010 21:07
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oh, well i meant putting my laptop display on my TV.

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castek
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Posted: 7th Jan 2010 22:13
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if your running windows 7 try pressing winkey + P or changing the resouloution.

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 7th Jan 2010 23:08
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no im running vista

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 7th Jan 2010 23:37
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ok i found out its nothing to do with my computer because i took my VGA off of my desktop and used it to hook to my tv and it is working. so obviously its the cable.

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NeX the Fairly Fast Ferret
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Posted: 7th Jan 2010 23:46
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If it was the cable it wouldn't work in either case. Could you please double check your posts to make sure they make sense?

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 8th Jan 2010 01:13
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well i accidently put computer instead of TV, im not perfect ya know.

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Posted: 8th Jan 2010 01:22
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I see, makes more sense now. Yeah, a VGA cable can easily be damaged. The pins are very fragile.

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Travis Gatlin
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Posted: 8th Jan 2010 02:06
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i guess it got damaged in shipping... im gonna demand my money back.

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