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All of this was working fine on Windows XP Professional SP3. I just installed Windows 7 Professional 64-bit and it doesn't work anymore.
My video card is an NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT. I have a plain old VGA cable running to my primary display (19" LCD monitor). I have an S-video cable running to a Philips RF Modulator (model ph61159) pictured here:
From the "TO TV" coax jack on the back of the RF modulator, I have a coax cable running to a splitter that sends the signal to all of the TV's in my house. So when I wanted to watch a computer video on one of my TV's, my process was:
- Enable the secondary display.
- Drag the video to the secondary display.
- Turn one or more of my TV's to channel 3 or 4 (depending on the RF modulator's front switch)
- Enjoy.
See the little red LED on the front of the RF modulator? It's supposed to turn solid when I have the secondary display enabled. It's off otherwise.
Before installing Windows 7, the light would turn on as soon as I switched on the secondary display in either Windows Display settings or using the nVidia control panel (either way worked).
After installing Windows 7, the light will blink a little bit when I switch on the secondary display in either Windows Display settings or using the nVidia control panel, but goes off and ultimately I have nothing sent to my TV's.
Here is a video of what is happening.
This is a show stopper for me. I will reinstall Windows XP if I can't get this fixed. Is there anything I can do?
EDIT
I had my wife watch the tv while I turned on the secondary display and she saw windows on the tv for a moment, but then it disappeared.
EDIT 2
I changed the refresh rate for the TV from 29hz to 30hz and that gives me a solid red LED on my RF modulator, but the TV has a black & white picture that isn't still (moving from top to bottom very quickly.) I haven't found any more advanced settings yet. Any ideas?
EDIT 3
I noticed that when you change the tv's refresh rate to 30hz and press apply, the refresh rate changes to 25hz, which wasn't in the list of options before.
EDIT 4
At some point I had a still black & white picture on the TV, but I have no idea which combinations of nvidia control panel settings and windows display settings got me there.
I did try that even though my display is shown (it's talking about the checkbox that says TV). If I disconnect the sVideo cable, I lose that checkbox. – Ronnie Overby – 2009-09-19T22:48:43.933
It was worth a shot - my only other recommendation would be to make sure your resolution and refresh settings are set correctly for the TV. – Chrisbux – 2009-09-19T22:54:23.533
I think your resolution should be set to 720x480, interlaced. I'm not sure if the refresh rate should be 30hz or 60hz since the signal is interlaced. – Chrisbux – 2009-09-20T00:16:42.307