6600GT not displaying Windows XP on TV

[seaverd]

I am putting together my first HTPC system and I am having a problem displaying my windows desktop on my CRT television.

I have a Leadtek 6600GT video card with Nvidia Forceware 66.77 drivers, SageTV 2.1, Hauppage PVR-150 Tuner and Windows XP with SP2.

I have tried both s-video and component video cables from the Leadtek TV out dongle and can not get the computer desktop to display on the TV. The Nview desktop is set to DualView so I can maintain 1280x1024 resolution on my PC's LCD monitor and a lower resolution for my CRT when I can get it to show on the TV.

When windows is booting up it shows the BIOS screen and the win XP loading page - once the xp user select screen comes up the TV goes blank - once the desktop is loaded the standard xp desktop wallpaper with the green field and clouds shows up on the TV with no icons, mouse pointer or anything. When I open SageTV it fills my TV screen and I can watch TV or recorded shows. No applications other than SageTV will show on the TV.

It seems like this problem could be as simple as changing some setting but I do not know where to begin.

Any help will be greatly appreciated!

Dan

[kny3twalker]

is your TV widescreen? and forget svideo
with component output and dualview
make the TV the primary monitor
then you will have basically nothing but a background on the PC monitor

right click the taskbar and choose unlock
then simply drag it onto the PC monitor

you can move the isons onto either monitor by simply dragging them

you are not using a cloned mode and probably do not want to
check out ultramon for setting up different backgrounds and screen savers
as well as it gives an extra icon in the window so you can easily switch the app from monitor to monitor

everything the first time will start on the primary monitor
simply drag it on to the secondary and close it
after that it will always start on the secondary screen

next go into the display properties then into the video card driver properties and disable mirror video display
this way the video only shows on the TV

next goto the advanced settings where anti aliasing is...
and check the advnced options and then find the multi-monitor hardware acceleration tab and choose single display mode

if this is not the type of config you want please explain more
and I hope you are using 67.66, and not 66.77

[aoehlke]

i have 71.22 for forceware... should i roll back to an older driver set?

[kny3twalker]

probably not necessary
I just like using official drivers

[stanger89]

I don't think you want to use DualView (which IIRC makes the card look like two devices to windows) you want to use Clone or Extended Desktop.

[kny3twalker]

no it does not
I do not know where you saw that
but cloned will not display properly with one widescreen and one 4x3
one will be squeezed horizonitally or vertically

and exteneded desktop works very similiar to dualview
but dualview is easier to work with
and makes it so you have two independent monitor
but you can still mouse your mouse from one screen to the other like in extended

where did you see this stanger?

(I do have 4 monitors in my device manager but not sure if this is because I can switch them from primary to secondary; two default monitors and two plug and play monitors)

[stanger89]

Originally Posted by kny3twalker

no it does not
I do not know where you saw that
but cloned will not display properly with one widescreen and one 4x3
one will be squeezed horizonitally or vertically

and exteneded desktop works very similiar to dualview
but dualview is easier to work with
and makes it so you have two independent monitor
but you can still mouse your mouse from one screen to the other like in extended

where did you see this stanger?

See what? I'm not sure where we disagree.

[kny3twalker]

which IIRC makes the card look like two devices to windows)

in the device manager there is only one listing for my 6800

[stanger89]

Well that's the way it worked a long time ago. Looks like they changed the way it works (plus I was running Win 2000 at the time which seems to work different):

Originally Posted by Forceware 67.66 User's Guide

Dualview mode is equivalent to selecting the Extend my Windows desktop
onto this monitor.. setting on the Windows Display Settings page, which gives
you an extended workspace.
When you start Windows 9x or Windows XP using multiple displays,
Windows is pre-configured for Dualview mode. This is not the case for
Windows 2000.