RE: [OT] Vista MCE DVD playback

["Phil Harris" <phil@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

Gefen do an inline box that you set up with the ID data for a display
and
effectively it "pretends" to be a display ... I think it's DVI
rather than
HDMI though.

Phil

> -----Original Message-----
> From: ukha_d@xxxxxxx [mailto:ukha_d@xxxxxxx] On Behalf
> Of Paul Gordon
> Sent: 02 February 2009 07:57
> To: UKHA Group
> Subject: RE: [ukha_d] [OT] Vista MCE DVD playback
>
> I now have a new problem with this ****ard machine....
>
> I got everything bar the mouse working just great, both SWMBO & I
have
> watched ripped DVD's and can't discern any image stability problems...
>
> Which is fine, until I reboot the machine with the plasma screen
turned
> off... - which happens every day because as part of the energy
> conservation measures, I have it automatically power down for a large
> portion of the day when it isn't required. At this point, at appears
to
> say "there isn't a 2nd screen connected, so I'm going to
reconfigure
> the
> display properties back to single display only"...
>
> When I then subsequently turn on the plasma, there is no display, and
> if
> I go to the PC & check the display properties, sure enough, nVidia
> clone
> mode is no longer effective, and I have to re-set the dual display
> clone
> config...
>
> This is pants! - I want to set the display mode I want, and I want it
> to
> jolly well stay that way! - anyone know of a way I can make the
display
> configuration "stick", and stop "helpfully"
changing my preferences
> every time it starts up without the 2nd display attached?...
>
> Paul G.
>
>
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