How can I connect my laptop to a TV via S-Video port? Do I need to do any additional settings or install any driver?
First of all, thrilled to see a website dedicated to laptop repair!!! I have got a small problem here. My laptop Toshiba Satellite A50 has an S-Video output. I have connected it directly through the cable to the S-Video input of my TV. But I tried my level best; it’s not displaying any picture of my laptop. Please tell me what can be the possible problem? Do I need to do any additional settings or install any driver? I hope this is not a too trivial question.
You do not have to install any driver to use S-video port. Connect the S-Video cable to the back of your TV and turn it on. Using TV remote control switch it from TV mode to Video mode (TV/Video button, Input button, etc…). Turn on the laptop and wait until it boots to the desktop. Connect the S-Video cable to the port on your laptop. Now you have to use Fn+F5 keys to enable TV video output. Press Fn key and while it’s pressed press on F5 key until the TV output is selected. When you done with TV, set the video output back to LCD using the same Fn+F5 keys.
On some laptops you have to enable TV output in BIOS and connect S-Video cable to the laptop before you turn it on.
September 21st, 2007 at 4:40 am
I just solved the black and white problem (at least on my TV). My TV has several channels for input signals (AV1, AV2, SVHS) depending on which input plug is used. On AV1 I got a black and white picture, AV2 no picture, but on SVHS a perfect, COLOUR picture. So, try checking that you have your television on the right channel.
Hope this helps.
September 15th, 2007 at 8:47 am
I have HP dv4030us Laptop. I tried connecting to TV but nothing is displayed. I used all the advises given above by you guy..but still nothing comes up onmy LCD sony TV. Please let me know do i need to install something likde video driver etc as recently I formatted and reload the windows XP software..
Appreciate your great help guys….
Redwing
September 15th, 2007 at 12:46 am
hi i have a inspiron 6400 and i connected it to may tv sound working and picture but its black and white i set the tv color to 32-bit and it says color but it still isent working can enyone help me
September 8th, 2007 at 1:44 pm
I’ve followed every step and I’ve I can see my laptop display on my TV but the screen on my TV is black. I’ve played w/ every setting and I still can’t change the color on my tv. My screen still stays black, can you help me solve this problem? Thanks.
-myARCHI7
September 5th, 2007 at 1:22 pm
I bought a new Sony Vaio laptop Model # VGN-N320E/B. Unfortunately it doesn’t have S-Video ouput.
And I have a Sony TV which has a S-Video port on that.
I want to connect my laptop to my TV and I want to watch the movies that are running on Laptop to be displayed on my TV.
Please tell me a cheap and best way to do this.
Thanks
Pavan
September 2nd, 2007 at 1:37 pm
Displaying pictures on big screen tv from laptop are terrible (i.e. washed-out color and poor resolution), however, I used my friends Canon Xti linked to this tv and got wonderful color and details. What is going on, my laptop is an HP Pavilion zd7000 and I am using the tif file format at 25MB files from my laptop and jpg directly from the Canon. What do I need to do to get my laptop to display pictures on the big screen equally as well as the Canon SLR is capable of doing?
August 30th, 2007 at 1:21 am
I am trying to contect my HP Pavilion dv4000 to the TV thru S-Video and when i press fn +f4 nothing comes out on tv…. how can i solve it?
August 25th, 2007 at 7:01 pm
hey,
i have a gateway laptop and want to connect to the s-video port on my tv from the s-video port on my machine but nothing seems to be happening. how can i make this connection? i already tried the fn+F3 and it doesnt work.
August 16th, 2007 at 4:32 pm
Hey, I got my laptop to work on my tv, but when I play a movie and put it into full screen, the full screen goes into monitor 1, instead of monitor 2. Any way I can play my movies in full screen on monitor 2? And is there anyway I can make monitor 2 my primary monitor?
August 15th, 2007 at 12:05 pm
My Sony laptop outputs fine through S-Video to my SDTV but whenever I try to run a picture slideshow of my digital camera pictures in Vista all I get on my TV is the “Loading” screen. It does the same with the Photos screensaver too.
Yet if I select dual screen with my LCD laptop screen and TV, the photos are displayed on both screens fine.
Any ideas
August 11th, 2007 at 9:55 am
here,
i connected my dell inspiron 6400 to my TV, and pressed fn+f8. i got the display but its really blurry no sound at all. i tryed my best, but no luck.
Is there anyone genius who can help me with the problem?
reply me if you can on vishalarvinda@hotmial.co.uk or just leave ur message down here.
WILL APPRECIATE YOUR HELP
THANKS
August 7th, 2007 at 3:27 pm
Hi,
I have a IBM T30 Think Pad with ATI Radeon 7500 chip set. I connected my laptop to a samsung 28″ TV using S-video cable. After I make the connection, I find the screen to be blank and not showing anything. But whenever I do FN + F7, there is some kind of movement on the blank screen indicating that the TV is responding for the function key but not able to display the laptop screen on the TV. Can you help me?
Thanks
July 30th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
I have a Compaq presario 2517AT with a s-video out port. i have connected a 4-pin s-video cable in that port and the yellow rca to the video-in of tv still nothing is coming in the screen … I tried Fn+F5 as well but no results.please help me out
July 28th, 2007 at 12:50 pm
I have an HP entertainment pc, can anyone tell me what i would need to connect it to my tv? Thanks!
July 26th, 2007 at 7:29 am
I have a Toshiba Qosmio F20 and I would like to connect my old JVC camcorder to it ,could anybody advise me on what leads I needs to achieve this?
July 24th, 2007 at 9:33 pm
Chris,
Your laptop runs Vista, correct?
Go go Control Panel and click on the Program and Features icon. Uninstall programs here.
Here’s my advice. If your laptop has only 512MB of memory, buy more memory, preferably 1GB module.
These days RAM is cheap. Two days ago I tuned up my friend’s Toshiba Satellite A135.I purchased a 1GB DDR2 Kingston memory at Circuit City for $44.99. His laptop with Vista runs MUCH faster now.
July 24th, 2007 at 6:02 pm
I just purchased a toshiba satellite A135 from best buy, and man it has alot of crap on it that i dont want google toolbar,yahoo stuff and all that advertising junk. Is there an easy way to get rid of this stuff. any advice is apreciated.
Cheers
July 22nd, 2007 at 12:45 pm
Thanks for response. It’s a flat panel TV but not plasma or LCD. Sounds like that’s my problem. So, the s-video port is only for HDTVs I guess.
July 21st, 2007 at 9:22 pm
Vince,
The image will not be perfect unless you have a plasma or LCD TV. What kind of TV do you have?
July 19th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
hi im sorry for posting this here but i didnt no where else to do it and i got a quik response from you last time i asked a question so sorry i couldnt find any other places i could post a question without having to sign up or go through alot of crap to ask a simple question please help me if you can ok so the problem is like this something is rearranging and renaming my music files its making folders and moving things its very frustrating when you try to find a song u wanna hear and then its not there and has been moved to a folder and renamed something like(10 10 10 10 10 10 10)
so please somebody help me if its windows media player then can i make it stop doing this if not wat other programs could i use instead that wont do this to me
any help would be greatly appreciated and once again sorry for posting this here
thanks
July 19th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
OK, I figured out how to display my Dell Inspiron 1100 laptop image on my TV using my s-video cable, however, it looks horrible. The words are so blurry I can barely read them. I tried resizing the screen and going from true color to high color, etc. and nothing works. Any suggestions?
July 19th, 2007 at 3:32 pm
I have a Dell Inspiron 1100 and I purchased a 7-pin to 4-pin s-video adaptor to connect my laptop to the TV and nothing happens. How do I get the screen transferred to the PC through the s-video port now? Hitting Fn/F8 doesn’t work. If I need to enable the TV through BIOS can you tell me exactly how to do this? Thanks!
July 14th, 2007 at 11:34 am
Hi I’ve got a Toshiba Sattelite using Windows Media centre edition. I’ve got the S-Video to work properly with no trouble and am using my TV as a monitor right now. The only problem is that Movies dont show up on TV. DVD’s Mpg’s etc only play on the laptop lcd and the tv shows the media player with a black box in it. I tryed Windows Media Player, VLC media player, and winamp. I’m pretty sure i have the most up to date drivers. Any suggestions on how to get the movies to display properly through S-Video?
June 25th, 2007 at 10:27 am
i need BIG help… im trying to do the same thing but with my PC… i have a S-pin cable and i connected it to my tv… and i dont have a Fn button.. and do i need any software for this?
April 5th, 2007 at 10:32 pm
I have a SONY VAIO laptop model VGN-BX565B. I want to connect this laptop to my Sharp HDTV. Problem is I can’t see any S-Video output on the laptop. What do I do about this? I have a cable from my Sony Camcorder with an RCA end & a headphone jack on the other end. When I try to plug this to the speaker slot of the laptop and connect the RCA to the TV, only the audio comes out from the TV. How can I use my TV as an extension monitor for my laptop if I don’t have that S-Video out slot from my laptop. Any suggestions?
April 4th, 2007 at 5:18 pm
My husband is trying to connect his hp laptop to his Samsung TV. He has the s video cable connected while it’s loading. When it first comes on, Windows is searching for files to load and you can see that on the tv, but after that it goes blank and the tv says no signal. We’ve tried almost everything and can’t get it to work. Please help.
March 23rd, 2007 at 1:39 pm
For dell laptop inspiron users with windows XP all you have to do is plug in the s-video from laptop to the tv and then right click on the comp screen go to “graphics options” and go to “output to” and select tv. make sure you tv is set to video input useing your source or input button.
March 15th, 2007 at 7:10 am
Hello,
I have a Dell laptop [inspiration 1100]. I need a docking station for it and someone has a dell docking station and said it was for inspriation 5000. Can I used this docking station for my laptop or I should have a docking station specific for 1100?
Thanks for your help.
March 11th, 2007 at 9:52 pm
Himanshu,
Maybe you are missing external speakers?
The audio signal doesn’t go though the S-Video cable.
I use external speakers and plug them into the headphone jack on my laptop.
Check out this thread.
March 7th, 2007 at 8:35 am
i have a Dell lattitude, i have connected my laptop to TV through s video cable. Everything is fine, i can see video on tv, but the problem is that the sound is coming from laptop and not from tv. Do i need to install some driver or i am missing on something.