Tuesday, October 04, 2005

Samsung LN-R238W PC Connection

I finally got my male-to-male 15pin VGA cables in from Cyberguys. These are useful little cables that are either 6' or 10' long and also include a stereo 3.5mm mini-jack as part of the cable. That works perfectly since the Samsung LN-R238W uses a 3.5mm mini-jack for the audio-in from the PC and I can plug directly into the "line out" mini-jack on the back of the PC.

I also had to use an analog DVI-VGA converter to convert the DVI output on the Ti4600 into a VGA cable. Since I had one laying around from an old ATI All-In-Wonder card, I didn't have to purchase one.

The only trick to getting the GeForce Ti4600 to work with the Samsung was that I had to have the Samsung display powered up and connected during the initial bootup of the PC. After that, it let me configure the monitors in "dual-view" mode and I set it to use the 1360x768 @ 60Hz setting. No mucking required.

The screen is a lot sharper when using the VGA input then when I tried to use the HDMI input. The scaler stays out of the way since I'm running at 1360x768 resolution.

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posted by Wuphon's at 9:25 AM