Help Needed Setting Up PC Monitor (DVI-D) to TV (HDMI)

[Emperor Giulio]

Hi

I have a Dell inspiron 531, NVIDIA GeForce 6150SE nForce 430with a monitor that has a DVI-D out up jack. My television has a HDMI input jack. I bought the DVI-D to HDMI cable, and plugged it in but I do not know how to configure it. Could someone please help me?

I tried looking in the most obvious places, but I dunno if it even detects it.

The port for DVI-D is in the back of my monitor, and I used Vista.
10 hours ago

I read on the box, it is not intended for Analog DVI video signals. When I set my monitor to Digital input, it goes into Power save mode. How do I set the monitor to Digital?

 

[Fëanor]

What kind of TV do you have?

Hope this helps

Right-click on the Desktop and select NVIDIA Control Panel

The Television Setup Wizard guides you through the steps to configure your television for use with your computer.

To follow guided steps for setting up your TV

1. From the NVIDIA Control Panel navigation tree pane, under Video & Television, click Run television setup wizard.
2. Follow the instructions in the wizard to

* Select the connector type
* Select the display mode

 

[Maniacal]

You will probably also need to set the TV's source to the computer, which may or may not be labeled as PC.

 

[Emperor Giulio]

What kind of TV do you have?

Hope this helps

It isn't even giving me that option.

 

[Emperor Giulio]

You will probably also need to set the TV's source to the computer, which may or may not be labeled as PC.

Hmmm, how do I do that?

Here is some additional information I added: The port for DVI-D is in the back of my monitor, and I used Vista.
10 hours ago

I read on the box, it is not intended for Analog DVI video signals. When I set my monitor to Digital input, it goes into Power save mode. How do I set the monitor to Digital?

 

[Emperor Giulio]

I figured it out!

Stupid me, I didn’t even need that cable (good thing I have the receipt), my TV already has a VGA input. I unplugged it from the old monitor and put it in the TV input. And now I’m typing this to you guys on a 42 inch LCD television!

 

[Emperor Giulio]

Time to play civ!

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Uhhm, you realize that your monitor has a DVI-D in, not out jack? I havent seen monitors that output video...

Unless your video card had DVI or HDMI, or your TV had a VGA in (like it turned out it did) this was going to be impossible.

 

[Emperor Giulio]

Uhhm, you realize that your monitor has a DVI-D in, not out jack? I havent seen monitors that output video...

Unless your video card had DVI or HDMI, or your TV had a VGA in (like it turned out it did) this was going to be impossible.

Uhhm, you realize that this question has been resolved?
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Could the mods please lock this thread?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Uhhm, you realize that this question has been resolved?
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Could the mods please lock this thread?

I do. Im just trying to correct any misconceptions you may have.

Anyways, you found an alternate solution, but the one you were looking for was impossible. That's all Im trying to point out to you. No need to take offense.

 

[warpus]

You should really invest in an HDMI-capable video card, it would make everything look a LOT better on that tv.

 

[illram]

Some older TVs are temperamental with their HDMI inputs from computers. I had to do it via VGA on my old plasma.

Not a problem with my new plasma, it handles DVI-->HDMI perfectly. Crisp 1920x1080 PC resolution. Now the problem with newer TVs is actually reversed; some will either not even have a VGA input, or they will limit the VGA input to some silly max resolution.

 

[GoodGame]

Yeah, as Genocidebunny is implying, VGA <> DVI. A solution was found but it's not really ideal, at least for a technophile. But happy Civving!


EDIT: This link has a pretty good explanation of DVI cable issues. http://www.datapro.net/techinfo/dvi_info.html

 

[Emperor Giulio]

I do. Im just trying to correct any misconceptions you may have.

Anyways, you found an alternate solution, but the one you were looking for was impossible. That's all Im trying to point out to you. No need to take offense.

It's all good

Sorry and thanks for the info.

You should really invest in an HDMI-capable video card, it would make everything look a LOT better on that tv.

yea, in the future I'll be in the market to upgrade. I'll need to for Civ V

I’m thinking a NVIDIA GTX 8800 with 768 MB. What kind of wattage for a power supply would be sufficient?

 

[Genocidicbunny]

That's a seriously ancient card. You can get something much more powerful these days. HD5770 is around 200$ and its more powerful/more energy efficient. Plus nVidia will be releasing the GTX400 series in a really short while, so look for those as well.

 

[Fëanor]

It's all good

Sorry and thanks for the info.



yea, in the future I'll be in the market to upgrade. I'll need to for Civ V

I’m thinking a NVIDIA GTX 8800 with 768 MB. What kind of wattage for a power supply would be sufficient?

nVidia recommends 450w for a single card, 650 for two cards and 850 for three 8800GTX in triple-sli.
But the 8800GTX's end of life was over two years ago besides being virtually impossible to get new, it would also be a pretty bad buy since they have been replaced by several generations of better and cheaper cards.

Also, as Genocidicbunny pointed out, nVidia is about to launch their newest generation of GPU's, the GTX 480 should cost around €450 and and the GTX 470 should go for about €350 and even if both these cards would fall outside your budget this release should put pressure on ATI and lower prices.

As for PSU requirements, nVidia's 4xx Series should require 600w, ATI's 58xx series requires 500w and ATI's 57xx series requires a 450w PSU.

 

[Genocidicbunny]

I should just note that PSU requirements are often exaggerated. Its not as much of an issue these days as it used to be, but there's still a 20-30% overestimation on part of nVidia and ATi. They want to make sure that people with crappy PSU's can still use their product.

A good PSU with a stable 12v line and enough amperage on it will beat out a higher-wattage unstable PSU any day.

You also want to make sure your PSU is running at about 70-80% usage. I believe thats when it's at its most efficient.

 

[Zelig]

You should really invest in an HDMI-capable video card, it would make everything look a LOT better on that tv.

It shouldn't really matter, DVI and HDMI are electrically identical for the video signal, only the audio signal differs.

 

[Maniacal]

That's a seriously ancient card. You can get something much more powerful these days. HD5770 is around 200$ and its more powerful/more energy efficient. Plus nVidia will be releasing the GTX400 series in a really short while, so look for those as well.

Don't you mean the 300 series? And its about damn time, I eagerly await the prices of the 200 series to fall!

 

[Genocidicbunny]

Don't you mean the 300 series? And its about damn time, I eagerly await the prices of the 200 series to fall!

No, I mean the GTX 400 series. There is no GTX 300.

Okay, thats not entirely correct, there are GT 3xx cards, but they're all OEM and based on the GT200 or G92 cores, so they're not really new.