Using Polaroid HD-LCD tv as Mini display...NOT! :(
Very similar symptoms as described in the post re: ENVISON wide scieen.
Well, maybe not exactly...tv is 19" Poloroid TLA-01911C w/ oodles of inpiut options like most other brands.
I opened the box attached a VGA cable to the tv, powered up tv and mini.. as mini was starting
I grabbed tv remote, loaded batteries and selected INPUT SELECT and switched to "PC"
as the input source. The screen showed the status: 1440 x 900 , PC but screen remained drk blue.
So I swtiched the tv off and on again and viola! -- my mini 's desltop. appeared.....oppps waiti...where didi it go?
Blue screen again .....status :NOT SUPPORT.
So I rebooted the tv then the mini.. and I watched the mini grey screen w/ apple logo then saw it switch over
to the display with my deskiop..... cool. I'll note here that the mage was as perfect and in proper size
proportion as my regular 20"LG LCD monitor.
Twenty maybe thirty minutes later I noticed the blue screen had reappeared with NOT SUPPORT status.
Perhaps the miinii went to sleep ? So i clilced and fiddled with the keyboard.. blue screen remained.
Rebooted minii and the tv switched ovee to show system starting up by immediately swirched back to blue NOT SUPORT when mini desktop is displsyed and this is what it does everytime.
I quiclly had the same idea as mentioned in the other post re:ENVISON..But the 1440x 900 size
absolutely the one that matches the tv and no oher size selcted will even display the start up screen.
Cable problems,you suspect? Perhaps....lets find out.
Okay lets try using two new VGA cables ... first cable :NOT SUPPORT...second cable : NOT SUPPORT
Perhaps an aversion to VGA cables ... so now lets use DVI cable into VGA male adsptor.. .NOT SUPPORT
Picky huh..okay Lets go DVI female adoptor to component video RGB cables... NOT SUPPORT
Okay okay lets get serious about this now and go DVI female adaptor to HD cable...NOT SUPPORT
Yes,btw.I changed inpuit selctions for those last two as the VGA/PC was not used.
So that was $200 in trial/error cables/adaptors that Ill need to return to the store.
At this point, unless there is a known documented cause /effect understanding of any mini-related
issues or limitations which attribute to this problem, fixable or not, I must assume its a Polaroidal-related
malfunction.
Suggestions, insights?
Thank you!
Scott
Well, maybe not exactly...tv is 19" Poloroid TLA-01911C w/ oodles of inpiut options like most other brands.
I opened the box attached a VGA cable to the tv, powered up tv and mini.. as mini was starting
I grabbed tv remote, loaded batteries and selected INPUT SELECT and switched to "PC"
as the input source. The screen showed the status: 1440 x 900 , PC but screen remained drk blue.
So I swtiched the tv off and on again and viola! -- my mini 's desltop. appeared.....oppps waiti...where didi it go?
Blue screen again .....status :NOT SUPPORT.
So I rebooted the tv then the mini.. and I watched the mini grey screen w/ apple logo then saw it switch over
to the display with my deskiop..... cool. I'll note here that the mage was as perfect and in proper size
proportion as my regular 20"LG LCD monitor.
Twenty maybe thirty minutes later I noticed the blue screen had reappeared with NOT SUPPORT status.
Perhaps the miinii went to sleep ? So i clilced and fiddled with the keyboard.. blue screen remained.
Rebooted minii and the tv switched ovee to show system starting up by immediately swirched back to blue NOT SUPORT when mini desktop is displsyed and this is what it does everytime.
I quiclly had the same idea as mentioned in the other post re:ENVISON..But the 1440x 900 size
absolutely the one that matches the tv and no oher size selcted will even display the start up screen.
Cable problems,you suspect? Perhaps....lets find out.
Okay lets try using two new VGA cables ... first cable :NOT SUPPORT...second cable : NOT SUPPORT
Perhaps an aversion to VGA cables ... so now lets use DVI cable into VGA male adsptor.. .NOT SUPPORT
Picky huh..okay Lets go DVI female adoptor to component video RGB cables... NOT SUPPORT
Okay okay lets get serious about this now and go DVI female adaptor to HD cable...NOT SUPPORT
Yes,btw.I changed inpuit selctions for those last two as the VGA/PC was not used.
So that was $200 in trial/error cables/adaptors that Ill need to return to the store.
At this point, unless there is a known documented cause /effect understanding of any mini-related
issues or limitations which attribute to this problem, fixable or not, I must assume its a Polaroidal-related
malfunction.
Suggestions, insights?
Thank you!
Scott
Mini Intel 1.66 Mhz 2Gb RAM, Mac OS X (10.4.11)
