Samsung LCD TV's PC input doesn't work with Acer laptops

[Hensony]

Two days ago, I tried unsuccessfully to connect my Acer laptop to my 40" Samsung LCD TV, which I bought for more than six months ago -- so it's not the latest model. Thinking that the PC input has malfunctioned, I called for warranty service the following morning. To my pleasant surprise, they could attend to me on the next day -- which is today. Good service, I must say!

 

When the guys came and saw my Acer laptop, one of them mentioned to his colleague that they had a similar problem with another customer. Anyway, when they couldn't get my laptop to work on the TV, they used theirs to verify that the PC input was OK -- it was.

 

Upon further prompting, I learnt that it seemed only Acer laptops have this problem with LCD TV.

 

By the way, my laptop is using the ATI Mobility Radeon X700 graphic card. I didn't find out which card the other customer was using. I was too distraught with the finding. Sigh...

[Bearbear1494]

This may sound stupid or glaringly obvious, but did you check the settings on your laptop? Some laptops require you to do some setting changes in order to enable the VGA output. I can't, for the life of me figure out why any graphics card cannot support a bog-standard VGA output to an otherwise bog-standard VGA input.

[Spas]

I have an Acer laptop too. Tried video-out, not via PC-input like you, but using S-video out and even the usual RCA video out. Didn't work.

 

But eventually worked after I reformatted the whole thing back to factory settings.

 

Maybe you should try that. It's definitely a software issue with your video card.

 

Anyway, PC-input quality - even if it works - isn't very good either. Get a DVD player that supports DivX ultra. Try Pioneer or Philips.

[Hensony]

That was one of the first things I did. I have spent an inordinate amount of time on the Display properties, and have come to know more about my graphics card than ever

 

Even the Samsung tech fiddled with the settings, but to no avail.

 

Sigh..

[Hensony]

Hmm... maybe I should do that too. Damn, meaning I have to re-install all the apps. Another weekend burnt...

[Jl1500k]

After connect the video cable from laptop to samsung LVD TV. Using the remote to switch to main menu. Look for PC connect (something like that) If the PC connect is grey off which mean don't allow you to change any settings which mean the LCD TV doesn't detect the video signal from the laptop. If you have confirm not the video cable problem then problem lie on the laptop video out connector or software/hardware problem. Have you try output to a LCD projector to confirm?

[Carndablues]

Not just Acer's my Dell Latitude D630 also can't display on the Samsungs. Some other models of Dell can, but not the D630.

[Chisiang]

Just 2 days ago I was trying to setup a Dell Notebook to output to a Samsung LCD TV in my company... the only output possible is 800x600 resolution.

 

The notebook is capable of higher resolution but the Samsung LCD TV just cannot support. But when I plug in a desktop using digital output, it worked at ALL resolution!

 

So I guess if you output from analogue (which most notebook has) it can't work.

[Jc777]

got 2 things you may want to try,

-toggle the output display mode.

-change the display resolution (1024x768, 800x600, 640x480, etc), sometimes if the display resolution is not compatible, the screen will not show the output at all.

Two days ago, I tried unsuccessfully to connect my Acer laptop to my 40" Samsung LCD TV, which I bought for more than six months ago -- so it's not the latest model. Thinking that the PC input has malfunctioned, I called for warranty service the following morning. To my pleasant surprise, they could attend to me on the next day -- which is today. Good service, I must say!

[Osiris]

Bro JC777 is right.

change the resolution. Check your TV support max resolution. Change your notebook resolution to that or lower.

Many newer NB have higher resolution than TV. you have to change the resolution temp if u want out to TV

[Hensony]

Changing the screen resolution was one of the first things I did. The instruction manual mentioned that the highest supported resolution was 1360x768. It didn't work even with lower resolution like 800x600.