Why is there no parallell port on the HP Pavilion Media Center a1430n Desktop PC?
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Parallell ports are gone by wayside..like floppy drives have..
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Your computer will need to support this type of display. (Check for more than one VGA or DVI display port.)\n\nIf not, you can buy a dual or triple head graphics card to install into your machine. Installing a second graphics card disables the computer's on-board port and you connect up your monitors to its ports instead. This will give you two (or more) independently addressable displays. With windows you then select the display and tick "Extend my desktop to this display" in the settings and the additional display will come on and start working. (By default windows will only use one display until you tell it otherwise in the settings, then all is fine and windows will use all the displays from then on.)\n\nhttp://shopmatrox.com/\n\nI have a Matrox P650 Dual-Head card with two flat panel screens and this works very well. (There are cheaper options out there though.)\n\nThere are also boxes and adaptors out there that can split your one display output into two, and this will function in "stretched" mode. (For example a laptop.) But make sure that your computer's chip-set is supported. The manufacturer of the display splitter box should be able to tell you what it is compatible with.\n\nThis is different from independent displays in that it is slightly less flexible. As far as windows is concerned, you have one big monitor and some applications might not work quite right in stretched mode because they are unaware of the two displays.\nThere are drivers/software to work around this to a certain extent. (Mostly to re-position windows to the middle of one of the displays and not the middle, straddling the two displays, and to reposition windows when maximised to the display they are in and not across both screens.)\n\nIf your budget (and hardware) allows, go for independent displays rather than stretched mode only setup.
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not yet but making a front lcd display ruining off the parallel port \n\n2x16 lcd\nhttp://www.beyondlogic.org/parlcd/parlcd.htm
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I have found the best way is to use a hub. they are cheap and efficient. You need an ethernet card but unless your pc is old, it probably has one built into the MB.  Thanks for the question, It made me remember a question I had about my comp :)
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Assuming your laptop doesn't have a VGA port on the back of it, there are PCMCIA video cards you can try one is the VTBook, http://sewelldirect.com/vtbookpcmciacard.asp?source=froogle but I would be surprised if your laptop did not have a VGA port on it somewhere.
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Does your PC have USB2 ports as well?  If not, it may not work.  Also, maybe the hub needs a power supply.
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Hard model number to locate! The nearest I got was HP Pavilion 4275 here\nhttp://www.computerbatteries.co.uk/gb3/m/hp/pavilion-dv4275.html\n\nthe site might be worth contacting to figure out a solution\n\nor you can try a looking for universal notebook adapters such as those made by Trust
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You need to check your video card...you may not have OpenGL support on it. (anything integrated is not likely going to have it unless the machine was built to run Windows XP Media center on it)
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If your laptop has a parallel port, you can get a Snappy.
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This is probably because you do not have the nvidia graphics adapter and are using the stock intel 945 graphics adapter. try this driver http://h10025.www1.hp.com/ewfrf/wc/softwareDownloadIndex?softwareitem=ob-43928-1&lc=en&cc=us&lang=en&os=228&product=3252162&dlc=en
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do you see ANYTHING during the boot process?\n\nif 'No', then disconnect the power and open the case and verify that the video card is pushed-down all the way.\n\nif is 'onboard video' (ie the vga connecter is up by the keyboard & mouse & audio connecters,) then try to plug in a different monitor, see if a different one displays...\n\nmake sure you're taking the Monitor's power cord or power supply with you to the P3 machine....  :-P\n\nHope this helps !
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you need a composite cable...looks like this:\n\nhttp://h10058.www1.hp.com/digital/entertainment/us/en/img/glossary/diged_gls_composite_cable.jpg
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Most USB adapters do not work very well, you are better off getting a PCMCIA (Laptop) or a PCI (PC)  parallel card and installing that.
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Look at your monitor handbook. That should tell you what you need to do. If you can't find your handbook, then just type in the monitor type and model into google and you should get what you are looking for.\n\nThe USB on the top of your tower might not be hooked up inside your case, check that out.
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All those connectors on the back are probably for output.  You'll need a video capture device to get a video input to your pc.\n\nThese are available with USB - which you'll need for a laptop - and run anywhere from $30 up.  You can snag them on ebay for pretty cheap.
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I think it's somethind that has to do with Media Center PC's. I have it on mine, but I haven't messed with it so I don't know what it does.
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This has nothing to do with the CPU.  It has everything to do with the graphics card(s) you use.  I'm easily able to do this with an NVidia GeForce 5200 with a single DVI and a single VGA output.  Some systems using ATI cards MIGHT require defining the "primary" monitor - only the primary monitor can display video with ATI cards I've seen.  This may hold true for dual video cards as well.