Help! Hooking laptop to TV

[siberianlocust]

Hey all,

I'm hoping someone can help. Yesterday I hooked up my laptop (via Svideo cable) to the tv and played some old school SNES games on the tv. Today, I go to do the same thing, and the tv screen is all garbled and messed up.

I didn't change any settings since it was working (for like 5 hours) yesterday. I tried restarting several times. I reinstalled my drivers. I unhooked and hooked back up the svideo cable. I only have one option for refresh rate and that is 60. I keep it on 800 x 600. Not sure if it matters but the tv is a 51" Mitsubishi.

I'm going to cry because I have friends coming over tonight to play games =( And now its not working! Any advice?

Here's a pic:

And here's a video of what it looks like:


Thanks!

 

[Zoomer]

Man that sucks, if your refresh rates & resolution is fine I can't think of much else you can do. Does your TV work okay when you have it on a station or playing a movie ?

The only thing I can suggest is ensuring that your connections are tight. Based on your pic & video it looks similar to what would happen if you had a lose connection.

 

[Doomulation]

Mess around with settings. In the control panel, I think you should be able to set settings for the "secondary" monitor or TV?