I have followed AR for years, drifting in and out of the forums. I have a finally converted my audio/video musical library to hard drive and am temporarily using an ill fated Dell 5150 to serve as a music server. I used an external M-audio converter for sound - sounds great BTW. But when I connected the notebook VGA port to a Sony XBR3 the picture I got was in a resolution and picture size probably based on the Dell notebook's video card. What is the solution here? I do not have options to zoom into this input on the TV. Shall I buy and external video card? What is the cause, extent and solution? I apologize in advance if this is a repetitive or stupidly simple.