Help connecting Laptop Vista by HDMI to Smasung Smart tv without laptop crashing

[csCHILLIN]

Every time I try to hook up my TV to my laptop by HDMI it causes an error on the laptop. I have an old Dell xps laptop with windows vista. The TV is a new Samsung 65" smart LED tv. When I connect the two a blue error screen pops up and a few seconds later makes the laptop restart repeating the process of the crash. I've tried many suggestions by searching through the forum of similar stories. I have other smaller Samsung smart TV's and the hdmi connection works with no issues. any help is greatly appreciated

 

[corroded]

Only hope is that Dell has a bios/firmware update that you have not applied.

 

[lfkfkfkffs]

A lot of dells will crash unless you press Fn-F8

 

[csCHILLIN]

I cant even press Fn-F8 before it crashes, I have even gone into nvidia control and made it so the latop displayed only on the hdmi connected screen

 

[lfkfkfkffs]

What is the max resolution of your t.v and laptop

 

[csCHILLIN]

the tv is 1920 x 1080 the lap top is 1440x900

 

[Chad Fisher]

Most likely that your drivers are not up to date and, that you dont have alot of vram, try closing as many programs as possible. then try again

PS: to see if your drivers are out of date, go to google.com and type Intel Driver Utility and run it, go to display drivers and see if it says its up to date or if it needs updateing

 

[csCHILLIN]

I understand that the laptop is old but I cant find any updates that seem like they might help. If the laptop needed updates would it not work with my other smart LED TV's that are smaller?

 

[lfkfkfkffs]

Just try setting your t.v to 1440x900