GeForce 2MX TV-Out

[Zaskar]

I recently bought a GeForce 2MX with TV-Output (MSI Starforce 818). However I'm having some problems with the TV output. I previously owned a ATI Rage 128 and if I connected it only to the TV display, Windows would boot normally and automatically switch TV-Out on. With my GeForce I can't do this... as soon as the computer starts Windows, the TV-Out is disconnected! I'm using 6.18 drivers. Is there any way to make Windows activate the TV-Out if there is no monitor attached?

Zaskar

 

[Kingofcomputer]

Depends on the vga card and driver.
My old Trident even has jumper to select mon or tv for first bootup device,
then switch in the software.

If you want something like your old ATI, get another ATI.

 

[pidge]

Try the newest drivers from MSI. They are based on the 6.31 drivers. Since in DOS, it displays video on your PC just fine, then that means the tv encoder works fine and that the problem lies in the drivers. Perhaps the newest drivers will resolve this. I am pretty sure you are doing this but try turning on your PC with only your TV connected to your video card (the CRT monitor disconnected).

 

[Zaskar]

Yeap...

The 6.31 drivers did the trick. Windows now boots on TV. The only thing is it boots using NTSC format and I have a PAL TV. The image quality sucks on my TV, but it's enough to be able to go to the settings and change it to PAL.

There's another small problem with 6.31 drivers... I'm not able to use hardware accelaration on PowerDVD (the image gets tottaly corrupted). I have to disable it...

Zaskar