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Dale Gray
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Colorado, USA
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Posted 17 Feb 2008 8:00 pm |
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Anybody tried TV reception on their laptop yet? Dale
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Colby Tipton
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Crosby, Texas, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2008 9:02 am
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Dale,
I tried it on my desk top, it worked great except for one thing.
I can't get picture in a picture, I would like to be able to put the T.V. in a small pane while I use my computer.
My monitor has PIP but I don't know how to make it work.
Colby |
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Dale Gray
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 18 Feb 2008 9:35 am
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I dont know if you went to control panel, and clicked on display, and clicked on settings, if that would get you started. Wiz can probably clear this up. Dale
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Jim Cohen
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Philadelphia, PA
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Posted 18 Feb 2008 9:41 am
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Not on my laptop but on my desktop. It's a fairly neew machine and has a good bit of RAM (I can't recall how much but at least 1 gig if not 2) and I find that I can watch TV for about 30 seconds before the image and sound freeze up and then I can't get any further with it. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them.
Thx,
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Colby Tipton
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Crosby, Texas, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2008 6:12 pm
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Jim,
I was having trouble like that too.
I reinstalled the video driver software and it started working.
My new flat screen had an issue with the resolution also, I cant recall what I set it on to stop it. |
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Wiz Feinberg
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Mid-Michigan, USA
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Posted 19 Feb 2008 7:16 pm
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| Jim Cohen wrote: |
Not on my laptop but on my desktop. It's a fairly neew machine and has a good bit of RAM (I can't recall how much but at least 1 gig if not 2) and I find that I can watch TV for about 30 seconds before the image and sound freeze up and then I can't get any further with it. If anyone has any suggestions, I'd appreciate hearing them.
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Jim;
I have learned from much experience that freezing applications, especially audio and video presentations, are caused by one or more of the following items:
- Bad audio card/chipset driver
- Dad video card/chipset driver
- Bad RAM module
- Improperly coded application used for playback
- Windows Updates changing the rules for applications
- Conflicting memory address request from another running program, or background process
To troubleshoot freeze-ups in video hardware, go to the manufacturer's website and look for updated drivers AND applications. If Windows Updates change the way things work, new drivers and utilities must be written, or these devices will cease functioning.
This happened to me with a MicroTek USB scanner, that worked fine for several years. Then one day, after obtaining the Windows Updates that fixed a flaw in COM objects, that scanner's driver ceased functioning and nothing I did could reactivate it. The manufacturer had abandoned updates for it, so I gave it away.
You can do a simple trial and error RAM check, by turning off the computer and removing one stick of RAM, then rebooting and running the application from bootup. If it still freezes up, turn off again, pull the remaining RAM module and replace it with the one you pulled out before. Reboot and try again. If this fixes the problem you should replace both sticks of RAM with a matched pair of higher quality Crucial RAM modules.
You can also download Memtest86, follow the instructions to run it at boot-time, then test your RAM for read and write errors. If your computer has a floppy drive, making a bootable floppy with Memtest on it is the simplest way to test your RAM. However, burning the ISO version to a CD-R may be more reliable, by removing floppy read errors from the equation.
If your motherboard is dual channel capable, and has four RAM slots, with two different colored pairs, place each RAM module into slots of the same color. When you restart your computer watch closely during the boot process, to see if the readout mentions Dual Channel Enabled, or similar language. Running matched pairs of memory in dual channel mode brings a significant performance improvement.
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Dale Gray
From:
Colorado, USA
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Posted 25 Feb 2008 7:33 am
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Any body else tried it on their laptop?
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