My wife has a nice new VAIO laptop. We connect it to a Samsung TV with an HDMI cable.
Initially there were video artifacts on the TV screen, but after some fiddling they seemed to go away.
Today they have returned. I have tried another HDMI cable and it didn't help.
The artifacts are only on the TV screen and not on the laptop display.
They cannot be captured with a screenshot (I just tried this and am posting from my computer).
The web search picture (HDMI.jpg) shows small vertical lines in a row after some of the text.
Sort of like this: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
but less than ½ the height of these lines.
There is also a set of the lines that follows the mouse cursor around.
The VAIO desktop picture (HDMI2.jpg) shows "sparkles" around the VAIO name and spreading to the left where it takes up the entire side of the screen.
Any ideas/suggestions?
Initially there were video artifacts on the TV screen, but after some fiddling they seemed to go away.
Today they have returned. I have tried another HDMI cable and it didn't help.
The artifacts are only on the TV screen and not on the laptop display.
They cannot be captured with a screenshot (I just tried this and am posting from my computer).
The web search picture (HDMI.jpg) shows small vertical lines in a row after some of the text.
Sort of like this: | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | | |
but less than ½ the height of these lines.
There is also a set of the lines that follows the mouse cursor around.
The VAIO desktop picture (HDMI2.jpg) shows "sparkles" around the VAIO name and spreading to the left where it takes up the entire side of the screen.
Any ideas/suggestions?
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My Computer
System One
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- OS
- Win8.1Pro - Finally!!!
- Computer type
- Laptop
- System Manufacturer/Model
- Samsung/NP780
- CPU
- Came with the laptop (i7 of some sort)
- Motherboard
- Pretty sure that it has one, but haven't checked inside the case!
- Memory
- upgraded to 12 gB from 8 gB
- Graphics Card(s)
- has switchable - Intel/ATI - Used wrong drivers, now ATI card is inop :( Will have to fix it soon!
- Sound Card
- I'm nearly deaf, so this isn't used often
- Monitor(s) Displays
- Touchscreen on laptop/32" Toshiba on HDMI (laid the Sharp TV on a mouse and cracked the screen!)
- Screen Resolution
- 800x600
- Hard Drives
- One Samsung 1tB drive - 5400 rpm. Gonna switch to a 7200/10000 rpm or an SSD (if I can find $500 for a 1tB SSD!)
- Switched to 500 gB Samsung 840 series SSD - WOW!!!
- PSU
- Why do we ask this for laptops?
- Case
- Silver with a neat Samsung logo
- Cooling
- sub-par, gotta get around to working on it soon Worked on it - still sub-par! :(
- Keyboard
- Microsoft Natural - the same one I've used since it orignally came out around 1995
- Mouse
- no Mouse - Trackball!!!!
- Internet Speed
- too slow when I'm waiting for a download to finish
- Browser
- Yes, I use this (Firefox mostly, w/IE next most)
- Antivirus
- Windows Defender and Windows Firewall
- Other Info
- I'm handsome and a snappy dresser :0)