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Howdy, |
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I have a video issue here. I recently cut off DirecTV service and now |
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watch from my puter, all those hard drives people know me for. As some |
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know, my Mom died recently so I want to make use of the living room TV |
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as well. I bought a splitter that takes one input and outputs to 4. |
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The outputs all have the same pic, it just splits the signal. When I |
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got the first one, it didn't work. I tried every which way but |
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nothing. Lights came on etc but no signal. I contacted the seller and |
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he thought the box was bad so he sent a replacement. Well, it was no |
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better. No worky. |
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I then decided to test it a different way. Even tho I don't have |
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DirecTV service, it should give some sort of screen so I used the |
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DirecTV box instead of my puter. Finding the power plug was fun I might |
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add. When I used it, it worked fine. It even worked with the VERY long |
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cable I bought to use for the living room TV. So, the splitter does in |
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fact work but not with my puter's video card. |
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This brings me to three paths. Is there something I need to change in a |
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config for this to work or is there some special requirement for the |
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puter's video card or is a special splitter needed? Which is at fault, |
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the splitter not being compatible or the video card not being |
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compatible, either by config or just hardware? |
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If no answer to that, I searched but can't find a triple or quad HDMI |
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output card that isn't like buying gold. Is there such a thing at a |
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reasonable cost? I'm fine with used and it doesn't have to be the |
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greatest, I watch TV and play Kpatience. I suspect the TV is the |
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largest load it sees and even that isn't much. This is the video card |
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made by MSI: |
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VGA compatible controller: NVIDIA Corporation GK107 [GeForce GTX 650] |
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Any thoughts on this? Different video card or different splitter or |
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better yet, a change in a config file? |
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Thanks much. |
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Dale |
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:-) :-) |