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compu8588 · 05-01-2009, 06:07 PM

I would like to be able to view my computer screen on my TV if that's possible and could use some help with the setup! I purchased an S-Video cable and an "RCA" cable for audio (?). There's a question mark there because I really had no idea which audio cable to purchase. This one in particular has a headphone jack on one end and both a red and white jack on the other (compatible with the usual red, white, yellow sockets you find on the backs of TVs, or so I assumed).

I tried to pull this stunt off by plugging one end of the S-video into the appropriate sockets on the back of my computer hard drive and the other end into the back of my TV but I just got a whole but of "fuzzy snow" on the TV screen (on the "S-Video" TV channel). So I tried to plug in the headphone audio cable jack into the headphone socket of my computer hard drive and the other end (red and white jacks) into the color-coordinated sockets in the back of my TV (labeled "Input 1", etc).

Yes, my computer was on. Yes, I restarted it after plugging in. Yes, the audio works on my desktop. And yes the audio jacks on the back on my TV are functional (I have used a DVD player through them and it works just fine!).

And yes, I got a whole bunch of nothing with these recent shennanigans b/c apparently I have no idea what I'm doing! No sound and no picture; just a whole lotta fuzz! Help please? Thank you so much for your time!

05-01-2009, 06:07 PM	#1 (permalink)
compu8588 Registered User Join Date: May 2009 Posts: 2 OS: Windows 2000	How to get Desktop PC Video and Audio through TV I would like to be able to view my computer screen on my TV if that's possible and could use some help with the setup! I purchased an S-Video cable and an "RCA" cable for audio (?). There's a question mark there because I really had no idea which audio cable to purchase. This one in particular has a headphone jack on one end and both a red and white jack on the other (compatible with the usual red, white, yellow sockets you find on the backs of TVs, or so I assumed). I tried to pull this stunt off by plugging one end of the S-video into the appropriate sockets on the back of my computer hard drive and the other end into the back of my TV but I just got a whole but of "fuzzy snow" on the TV screen (on the "S-Video" TV channel). So I tried to plug in the headphone audio cable jack into the headphone socket of my computer hard drive and the other end (red and white jacks) into the color-coordinated sockets in the back of my TV (labeled "Input 1", etc). Yes, my computer was on. Yes, I restarted it after plugging in. Yes, the audio works on my desktop. And yes the audio jacks on the back on my TV are functional (I have used a DVD player through them and it works just fine!). And yes, I got a whole bunch of nothing with these recent shennanigans b/c apparently I have no idea what I'm doing! No sound and no picture; just a whole lotta fuzz! Help please? Thank you so much for your time!