help please

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    braden198 is offline Full Member

    help please

    hey i have recentley joined this site and wanted some help on a few computer and tv things ...... i have a old sylvania tv which only has the video and audio plugs there is nothing in the back of the tv besides the cable plug for the tv .... and i have a pretty sweet computer it is an ibm but it is all pipmed out its has a nivida 512mb geforce video card that is amazing and 1gb of ram ... but i still cant figure out why i cant hook my computer up to the tv ... if you can tell me how in basic steps please post

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    brain_damage is offline D-A-L Team Member (UK)
    Hi braden198 and welcome to D-A-L

    are the connectors on the TV phono/RCA type?
    has your graphics card got TV out?
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    braden198 is offline Full Member
    hoiw can u see if ur video card has tv out ... what cables?

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    braden198 is offline Full Member
    i dont think i have those cables

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    Sniper210010 is offline Valued Member
    you will be able to tell if there is a yellow socket that fits a cable simalar to the ones picture above nect to the vga socket on your video card.

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    braden198 is offline Full Member
    thanks that sounds good i will try that ... i do have lots of those wires .

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    braden198 is offline Full Member
    also is there any plugs that i need in my tv becasue like i said before my tv is old and not very good so im not 100% sure

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    Sniper210010 is offline Valued Member
    there should be 3 colourd plugs, white, red (audio) and yellow (video). if not then i cant see anyother way.

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    braden198 is offline Full Member
    alright yeah i have those plugs so ... i most likely do that and i have the rca wires to hook up to th tv to computer

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    braden198 is offline Full Member
    do u know what a svideo cable is ... could i possibly use that as well as a rca cable?

    Sorry, just relised the double post. =/

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