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Mensch
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Am I doing something wrong? My desktop is showing on my TV, but nothing else shows up. No wireless connection involved, PC > HDMI cable > TV.



I know, I need to clean my TV screen.


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go to change display settings and make sure it is on "duplicate" rather than "extend displays"


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is your tv input capable of handing the output resolution of your laptop?
 
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What happens when you skip the Fire and connect directly from the laptop to the TV via HDMI?
 
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Originally posted by radioman:
go to change display settings and make sure it is on "duplicate" rather than "extend displays"



^^^^ this
 
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Works fine, been doin' it for 20 years.
 
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Mensch
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Originally posted by radioman:
go to change display settings and make sure it is on "duplicate" rather than "extend displays"


Thank you! That did the trick, only issue is my monitor is square and my TV is rectangular so it changes the resolution to fit the TV. No problem, since I don't use both at the same time. The sound comes out of the computer but not the TV how would I fix that?


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"Yidn, shreibt un fershreibt"

"The Nazis entered this war under the rather childish delusion that they were going to bomb everyone else, and nobody was going to bomb them. At Rotterdam, London, Warsaw and half a hundred other places, they put their rather naive theory into operation. They sowed the wind, and now they are going to reap the whirlwind."
-Bomber Harris
 
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