[SOLVED] VGA output all messed up.

I'm having problems getting things to look right when I output video using a converter that converts from VGA to AV or S-Video. The display looks all distorted and the edges are bowed outwards.
This is what the display looks like on the TV:
This is what it looks like on my computer:
The TV's menus look fine, so it leads me to believe that the output from my computer is all messed up.
I have an integrated Intel HD 4000 video card.
Any idea what might be the problem?
Last edited by amadar (2012-12-20 10:43:13)

There seems to be an alignment problem with the stuff inside the RGB tv because I connected it to another TV and everything is aligned and looks good, so it's not related to my OS at all. This thread can be closed.
Last edited by amadar (2012-12-20 10:41:47)

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>{quote}I have a Toshiba Satellite L300 1BD (Model PSLB8E). I was usinng the VGA output to connect to my LG tv. It worked fine until last week. All of a sudden the TV doesn't get reckognized by the laptop anymore. The TV says that no external device is connected. I have tried different things: starting up with the TV connected and not connected through the VGA cable, pressing the FN+F5 button, removing the battery and pressing the powerbutton, checked for the latest videodriver, removed the existing driver and installed it again...unfortunately without any result. I also tried to hook the TV up with a different VGA cable, but no result. It's not the TV, because i did try to hook the laptop up to a TFT monitor and it didn't work as well. Tested the VGA cable with my friends laptop: it works perfect. {quote}
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