I had a similar situation as Mpcrsc562 a while back; in order for the TV to be "seen", I had to turn it on BEFORE I booted. Although not an S-cable setup, I experience the same thing now with an LG M237WD (dual monitor/TV) in reverse: if I wish to switch from TV to monitor mode, the unit has to be on before I boot or the monitor mode will not work.
Monk
Mine's actually an XPS 430, but aside from that that is my exact system (Processor, RAM, cards, etc...).
And I just noticed that I was plugging it in via the TV tuner card and I feel retarded -_-
Though I don't have any extra HDMI cables... but I CAN use the one from my PS3 temporarily to check and see if it works.
Sucks that the worst thing on this rig is the video card (I'm not counting the lack of a decent sound card).
And as a side note, is this a good card for this rig? I am shopping around for an inexpensive new card: Newegg.com - XFX HD-575X-ZNFC Radeon HD 5750 1GB 128-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card
@TheColdOne
Glad I was able to help,
the pic was of a XPS 430, it was a typo. I was typing too fast. :)
Yep, working fine now. All I need to do is tweak media center to work on the TV while I am still able to function on the main monitor.
Also going to install the sound card from my old PC so I can have sound going to both my speakers and the TV.
Glad it worked, and I'm glad everybody jumped in. I learned something, too. Thanks. :)
I am in similar situation. I used to run XP Pro on this system then XPx64. the S-video output was fine regardless of when I switched the TV on. Using the same HD 3870 x2 but now on Windows 7, the TV simply cannot be detected. If i use the force TV detection it displays it, but it doesn't really detect it. If i have the force detect disabled even if i click on the "Detect" button on the displays manager ... it will never show it.
I am just thinking this is more a problem related to Windows 7, rather then anything else. If someone found a real solution for this, I would very much like to hear about it too. Thanks in advance.
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