Ugh, I got a personal cinema card, how do I get my TV to be my computer screen???

Quartz01 · 07-23-05, 10:47 PM

Hey guys,

I just bought a PNY FX5700 128mb Personal Cinema card, for the sole reason of being able to use my TV as my monitor and watch Divx movies. I installed the card fine, installed the drivers fine, and I got the yellow, white, red A/V Compositve cables hooked up from my TV to my computer, BUT I GET NO FREAKIN IMAGE ON MY TV SCREEN. This is driving me bloody mad, how do I get my TV to act as a monitor????

rewt · 07-23-05, 11:37 PM

If you reboot can you see the BIOS and POST on the TV? If not you probably need to select INPUT on the TV.

JohnEJohn · 07-24-05, 04:35 AM

Last time I done this (which was a while ago) you had to setup tv out in the display properties.

Try clicking detect displays and force tv detection also. (as shown in the pic)
If not I remember using a program TV tool many many moons ago

signal3 · 07-24-05, 02:29 PM

I too like watching TV on my computer. For some time I was bouncing back between ATI All-in-winder, Nvidia personal cinema, and even the Matrox eTV solution. To be honest, none of these solutions satisfied me completely. After many many iterations I've settled on SEPARATING the TV functionality from the video card altogether. Believe me, I am MUCH MUCH happier now!

That is... for the last few years I've been running a plain old AGP graphics card + a brooktree based pci TV-tuner card (think Hauppauge WinTV PCI or Leadtek TV2000XP/EXPERT + agp video card of your choice). If you can spare the PCI slot I highly recommend you do the same.

I have found that this setup is far more reliable/compatible/portable (and ultimately usable) than any single board solution [I'm typing this on my FreeBSD/x86 computer as I watch the Mets play the Dodgers]. In addition, if you want to upgrade your video card to one of the latest and greatest chipsets (think GF7000 series) you don't need to shell out tons of cash for a board that has a tv-tuner as well, after all, the tv-tuning is being done by the PCI card (no need to upgrade that too).

It may be too late for some, but I'm hoping I can save some heartache for others.

That's my story... and I'm stickin' to it!

07-23-05, 10:47 PM	#1
Quartz01 Registered User Join Date: Jun 2005 Posts: 4	Ugh, I got a personal cinema card, how do I get my TV to be my computer screen??? Hey guys, I just bought a PNY FX5700 128mb Personal Cinema card, for the sole reason of being able to use my TV as my monitor and watch Divx movies. I installed the card fine, installed the drivers fine, and I got the yellow, white, red A/V Compositve cables hooked up from my TV to my computer, BUT I GET NO FREAKIN IMAGE ON MY TV SCREEN. This is driving me bloody mad, how do I get my TV to act as a monitor????

07-23-05, 11:37 PM	#2
rewt mmm, Beer.. :drooling: Join Date: May 2004 Location: USA Posts: 3,667	Re: Ugh, I got a personal cinema card, how do I get my TV to be my computer screen??? If you reboot can you see the BIOS and POST on the TV? If not you probably need to select INPUT on the TV. __________________ My pimp'n rig Athlon64 Venice 3000+ @ 2.6GHz (4100+) · Win XP Pro x86, Vista Ultimate x64 · eVGA K8-NF41 nForce4 SLi · Corsair XMS 1.5GB PC3200 CAS2/1T · eVGA 2x 6600GT SLi · Leadtek Winfast TV2000 XP Deluxe · Western Digital Caviar SE ½TB RAID 0/1 · PowerLink LPK2-30 400W · LiteON LDW-411S OC to 811S 8x DVD±R/RW/ROM · MicroAdvantage 64MB QuickiDrive · Samsung SyncMaster 931B 19" LCD · Microsoft Optical Wheel Mouse USB · Sony PSXtoUSB Analog Gamepads · Memorex MX2700 Multimedia Keyboard · Lexmark 3200 Color Jetprinter · nForce Network Controller 1Gb/s LAN (Cable ~3Mb/s down) · ΩPioneer Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround Sound

07-24-05, 04:35 AM	#3
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07-24-05, 02:29 PM	#4
signal3 Live Free or Diiiiiieeee. Join Date: May 2005 Posts: 11	Re: Ugh, I got a personal cinema card, how do I get my TV to be my computer screen??? I too like watching TV on my computer. For some time I was bouncing back between ATI All-in-winder, Nvidia personal cinema, and even the Matrox eTV solution. To be honest, none of these solutions satisfied me completely. After many many iterations I've settled on SEPARATING the TV functionality from the video card altogether. Believe me, I am MUCH MUCH happier now! That is... for the last few years I've been running a plain old AGP graphics card + a brooktree based pci TV-tuner card (think Hauppauge WinTV PCI or Leadtek TV2000XP/EXPERT + agp video card of your choice). If you can spare the PCI slot I highly recommend you do the same. I have found that this setup is far more reliable/compatible/portable (and ultimately usable) than any single board solution [I'm typing this on my FreeBSD/x86 computer as I watch the Mets play the Dodgers]. In addition, if you want to upgrade your video card to one of the latest and greatest chipsets (think GF7000 series) you don't need to shell out tons of cash for a board that has a tv-tuner as well, after all, the tv-tuning is being done by the PCI card (no need to upgrade that too). It may be too late for some, but I'm hoping I can save some heartache for others. That's my story... and I'm stickin' to it!

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