What are all these connections for on the back of my PC?

How do I use the TV-Out features of my PC?

How do I connect two or more of my Mesh PC's via a network?

I have opened My PC, How can I determine where the indivudual components are?
What are all these connections for on the back of my PC?




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How do I use the TV-Out features of my PC?

If your PC features an Nvidia graphics card use the following procedure to connect your PC to your television set.


1) Locate the TV-Out adaptor supplied with your PC. This may be one or both of the following: a) A short 4 pin male S-Video to female phono adapter b) A long male-to-male phono cable.
2) Connect one end of the TV-Out cable to the S-Video output socket in your Nvidia graphics card and using an extension cable if necessary connect the other end to your TV.
If your TV features an S-Video input you can connect directly to this, if your TV only features a composite (yellow phono plug) input you will need to use the S-Video to composite adapter supplied with the system. If your TV only features a SCART socket then you will need to purchase an additional S-Video or Phono to scart adapter.
3) Once the connections have been made you will need to activate the TV out functionality of the drivers. Go to control panel>display>settings>advanced. Select the device selection tab and select the TV option. If the TV option is greyed out, check that the TV is connected correctly, if this does not help then download the latest drivers for your card from http://www.nvidia.com.
Change the Format to United Kingdom - Pal I and leave the video output format - Auto select.
4) Set your TV to the correct input. This will be AV1, AV2 or AV3, depending on which socket you used to connect the TV-Out cable. You should now be able to view the windows desktop on the TV.
5)- If you wish to hear the PC sounds through the TV speakers you will need to purchase an additional audio cable. In most cases a stereo mini jack to left and right phono cable should suffice. Connect the mini jack to the green socket on your sound card and connect the white phono plug to left audio input on the TV or scart converter (if used) and red phono plug to right audio input.

If you experience Black and white picture on TV change the active input to either to AV1, AV2, or AV3.

If your PC features an ATI graphics card connect the cables as described above.



To enable TV display in the drivers go to control panel>display>settings>advanced and click the ‘display’ tab. Click the red button next to the ‘TV’ display icon to enable TV-Out. Be sure to set the output mode to UK or PAL-I.

Once TV-Out is enabled you monitor may turn off or change to display a very flickery image. This is normal, your TV will only display images at 50 or 60hz and the monitor has to use the same frequency when TV-Out is enabled. We recommend you turn off the monitor whilst using TV-Out to protect the screen (and your eyesight).

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How do I connect two or more of my Mesh PC's via a network?

To set up a basic peer to peer network (without a server) use the following procedure:

1) Make sure that the PC's are both fitted with network cards and are connected together using a crossover cable or a hub.
2) Go to control panel>network and check that the following protocols are installed on each machine: TCP-IP, client for Microsoft networks and file and printer sharing.
2) You will need to share at least one drive or directory on each machine. Right click the drive or folder, choose 'sharing' and enable sharing for the drive.
3) Go to control panel>network>TCP-IP and check that you have assigned a valid IP address to each PC, i.e. 192.168.0.1 and 192.168.0.2
4) Check that both machines are using the same subnet mask, 255.255.255.0
5) Each PC must use the same work group name.
6) Each PC must have a unique computer name within the work group.
7) Check that you have created a user account on both PC's using the same user name and password, OR that the guest account on the XP machine is enabled (control panel>users).
After changing all these settings reboot the PC's and on restart they should be able to see each other on the network.

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I have opened My PC, How can I determine where the individual components are?



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