Weiuw! I thought I'd, never! figure this darn thing out! So, here is what the deal was, just for the intrigued. I had the laptop set so that it was basically duplicating the display. In other words, it was showing picture on the built in laptop screen, but also was projecting it out to my TV via HDMI. The problem was, because of this, there were two things keeping the TV from working correctly, apparently. First off, because I had it set this way, both displays were going at the same time, however, the laptop screen seemed to be taking precedence over the external TV display. Because of this, when you try changing the display settings, like say, your resolution, etc, you're actually going to change both, yes, true, but... Chris sighs... how the heck do I explain this! The settings are gonna be based on the hardware, I guess would be how I'll explain it, of the internal monitor, not that of the TV. So in other words, the screen resolution can only go as high as the internal screen on the laptop's lid will let you go. The iss ue is, I can get a wayyyy! higher resolution on my built in TV than on that laptop screen. You're going from about a 15 inch screen, to a 22 inch screen. Big! difference! So, the trick was to get the laptop to quit seeing the internal screen, therefore forcing! it to only detect settings from the TV via HDMI. So! What I did was, I hit windows key+P. What this does, for those who don't know is, it pops open your charm, and lands you in the projector menu. In here, you'll have several options. I'd not advise you going in here middle mucking around unless you indeed do! have an external display also connected. Otherwise, I'm not totally sure what might happen. Probably nothing, but I'd not chance it. The last thing you want is to lose your display entirely, then no one sighted could help you since they can't see the screen. Anyway, in here, I had it set to duplicate. So therefore, as I said a sec ago, it was rerouting the video signal to my TV through the laptop's HDMI out. What I did was, in this menu, I down arrowed to second display only, and hit enter. Then! I went and looked at the resolution slider. Go? figure! It was way down at like, 1280 by 768 pixils. I bumped that sucker all the way up, and then just for good measure backed it off one notch. I hit apply? And, bingo! My entire TV screen shot into life! The only problem really with this is, if I do! decide to go back to duplicating, the picture then goes back smished again on the TV. I wish there was a way to tell Windows 8.1 which a those was the default primary display. I'll becha, if I could do that somehow, I then could make it work on both! I think we are so! so so close! This is definitely progress, by far and away!
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