• Computer to TV fuckup
    4 replies, posted
I hooked up my 6 year old Hitachi 1080p HD TV via HDMI to my computer. I have a NVIDIA GTX 550 TI, but apparently it decided to use an Intel card ( I think my computer has this as its backup card for when you install drivers or something ) Anyways it detected the TV, but the resolution didn't fit. I could still open the NVIDIA control panel, but most of my options were gone. I used this guide [url]http://www.wikihow.com/Hook-up-a-Windows-7-Computer-to-a-TV[/url] and opened the Intel graphics control panel and created a new resolution with something like these settings : 60 refresh rate some resolution I can't remember All colors (as opposed to 32 bit colors which I believe caused my next problem) My screen flipped the fuck out. I tried to undo it but there was too many graphical glitches to do anything on my screen/ I turned off my computer because I wanted to avoid screen damage. Now the TV is black. I can hook it back up to my computer monitor and everything is fine because it's back using the NVIDIA card again. What do I do? Well I managed to fix that screen fuckery, but how do I get this to use my NVIDIA card and not intel?
There might be a setting in the BIOS to set the default card, set it to the Nvidia one.
[QUOTE=djjkxbox360;44536102]There might be a setting in the BIOS to set the default card, set it to the Nvidia one.[/QUOTE] NVIDIA is my default card right now. It only swaps to the intel card when I attach a HDMI cable. If I disable the intel graphics card in device manager the NVIDIA doesn't take over. Also I just realized I posted this reply on my newer account. Please ignore that. Edit : I figured it out. I was plugging into the HDMI port on my motherboard and apparently you cannot transfer that to your main card. My NVIDIA card uses a mini-HDMI port and luckily I have an adapter. Will test in a few hours.
So you have to physically switch where the hdmi is plugged in from your GPU to the motherboard port when you plug it into the tv?
Really??? You're plugging it into the integrated GPU rather than the 550ti.
Sorry, you need to Log In to post a reply to this thread.