RFBCNextGen
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Hello to all. Glad to find this forum and hope I can find an answer here for my problem.
For background I serve as a Youth and Children's Minister at a Baptist Church and since I am fairly tech savvy I am the go to guy for most things tech around here. What I don't know I learn on the fly ( you can find anything on google right?). Our church wanted to get a screen/ projection system but since we are small and not very modern (and cheap) they did not want to invest the 16 grand they were quoted by the professionals. So I did some research and got them a basic budget set up to run some video on and some powerpoint slides and installed it myself.
To do this I decided to try to set the system up the way the pro explained how he would do it and use CAT5. This was my first experience with CAT5 in this type of application so I read up and thought I had gotten what I needed. Unfortunately something isn't right.
The projectors work beautifully and after some initial loose connections we got the display to finally come up and I thought we were ready to go. So I launched a presentation and to my dismay the display became grossly distorted and washed out. The extended desktop was fine with nothing else displayed but if I try to project anything more than a background image I get this super bright washed out effect. I have played with resolution and color settings on the projector but to no avail. I have switched out the CAT5 cables and gotten the same results. I climbed up and connected the laptop directly to the projector via VGA and it works fine.
I am starting to think I have the wrong equipment but just don't know and don't want to spend money that I don't have to. Here is what I am running/using
Computer: HP Pavilion G7 1150us 640 Hard Drive 4096MB DDR3 SDRAM
Projector: Epson VS400 Projector (specs- Epson VS400 XGA Multimedia Projector V11H326020 B&H Photo Video )
Connections: Tripp Lite b130-101 VGA over CAT5 extender (specs- Amazon.com: Tripp Lite B130-101 VGA over Cat5 Extender 1 Local, 1 Remote Port: Electronics )
Any advice/ solutions? Cause I have no ideas left.
For background I serve as a Youth and Children's Minister at a Baptist Church and since I am fairly tech savvy I am the go to guy for most things tech around here. What I don't know I learn on the fly ( you can find anything on google right?). Our church wanted to get a screen/ projection system but since we are small and not very modern (and cheap) they did not want to invest the 16 grand they were quoted by the professionals. So I did some research and got them a basic budget set up to run some video on and some powerpoint slides and installed it myself.
To do this I decided to try to set the system up the way the pro explained how he would do it and use CAT5. This was my first experience with CAT5 in this type of application so I read up and thought I had gotten what I needed. Unfortunately something isn't right.
The projectors work beautifully and after some initial loose connections we got the display to finally come up and I thought we were ready to go. So I launched a presentation and to my dismay the display became grossly distorted and washed out. The extended desktop was fine with nothing else displayed but if I try to project anything more than a background image I get this super bright washed out effect. I have played with resolution and color settings on the projector but to no avail. I have switched out the CAT5 cables and gotten the same results. I climbed up and connected the laptop directly to the projector via VGA and it works fine.
I am starting to think I have the wrong equipment but just don't know and don't want to spend money that I don't have to. Here is what I am running/using
Computer: HP Pavilion G7 1150us 640 Hard Drive 4096MB DDR3 SDRAM
Intel Core i3-370M 2.4GHZ
Win 7 Home Premium 64-bitProjector: Epson VS400 Projector (specs- Epson VS400 XGA Multimedia Projector V11H326020 B&H Photo Video )
Connections: Tripp Lite b130-101 VGA over CAT5 extender (specs- Amazon.com: Tripp Lite B130-101 VGA over Cat5 Extender 1 Local, 1 Remote Port: Electronics )
Any advice/ solutions? Cause I have no ideas left.