siebkens Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 Sorry, heading should be generic television, not unknown monitor in XP ProI installed Win XP pro a few months ago - first as an upgrade to ME to see if it was going to work & now have rebuilt from the partitions up using NTFS & reloading Win XP & have tried using 2 different Vivitron 17" monitors. In both scenarios, under monitors in my Device manager, I show generic television & my current monitor - this wasn't the case with Win98 or ME. I never saw a television in the listing. On settings tab of my display properties it shows multiple monitors on 3dfx Voodoo3 (my video card). It is enabled to hook up to a television for DVD through the video card (I believe). I have disabled the generic television, but I'm not convinced that it is disabled because I get very different screen resolutions than I used to. 480X? is not listed, have 960X720, which I don't remember seeing before. And when I go to monitors in the advanced screen, the generic television is first in the list & highlighted. I've tried deleting it & everything else that I could think of, but that generic television won't go away. Running Gateway 500mHz machine. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThunderRiver Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 Any screenshot?Are you talking about TV output? like SVIDEO? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus K Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 A wee bit confused as to what the problem is, other than confusing entries. What exactly is not working right. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebkens Posted April 10, 2003 Author Share Posted April 10, 2003 Any screenshot?Are you talking about TV output? like SVIDEO?The only specifics that I can find for the video card is this:16MB 3dfx Voodoo3 3000GTV AGP Graphics Accelerator w/TV-Out. I assume this is SVIDEO?In answer to Gus K, what is the problem?I'm having problems with video in some games that my kids run & was trying to clean up my setup & know exactly what I'm dealing with when trying to troubleshoot video problems.Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ThunderRiver Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 It still doesn't seem to explain what your problem is. Are you having problem outputing your monitor display to the TV? or you are having problem with your monitor resolution?Thunder Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gus K Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 I'm having problems with video in some games that my kids runSome game problems may be due to the VooDoo card, which is pretty much obsolete. Not many new games worry about supporting VooDoo's. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest ComputerBob Posted April 10, 2003 Share Posted April 10, 2003 Sorry, heading should be generic television, not unknown monitor in XP ProTopic renamed. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
siebkens Posted April 11, 2003 Author Share Posted April 11, 2003 Some game problems may be due to the VooDoo card, which is pretty much obsolete. Not many new games worry about supporting VooDoo's.Sigh. You're probably right. Although the games that I'm trying to run are generally 2001 - 2002 vintage that ran before I changed to XP Pro and when I look at Voodoo discussions, it seems others are getting their cards to work with XP Pro. Just trying understand the generic TV thing and to narrow the possibilities as to where the problem is.Display problems during the game are: black screen, but can hear sound, game freezes, garbled video.Thanks! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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