Hello all! I am planning on canceling my cable tv service and wanted to be able to watch tv via online options on my tv. I have an XFX GeForce 8400gs and am trying to set up my LCD Dell monitor (E173FP) with my LCD TV as a second monitor. I am running Windows XP Pro with the newest driver for my video card (266.58). The connections that I am using are VGA to VGA and DVI-I to VGA. I am just going to post what I have gathered from messing with this for the past 2 days, but I have attached the step by step of everything that I have tried (this post would have been amazingly long if I shared everything).

1. It seems that when both monitors are connected when the system starts, it by default chooses the VGA to VGA connection as the primary display.
2. The TV works when connected via VGA to VGA, but is only detected as HDTV with the monitor as the primary with DVI-I to VGA.
3. Once the monitor goes into power save mode, I must restart to 'awaken' it.
4. The connection scheme dictates which display options are shown in NVidia Control Panel.

This may have seemed vague, but I have written all of my 'experiments' up in a word doc and attached it. So, if you might be able to help, please take a look. I have no idea what to try next. I really appreciate your help!

JCMTemple