Help with my TV out - Only Black and White.

[leosalchemist]

The system is old: P4 1.6G, 512M PC133, Dell 4300, Nvidia MX4000 64MB video card w/ TV out.

I googled and updated the driver to the latest. And tangled with signal format: It's only black and white no matter how I change the format. The screen rolls real fast when the format is changed to PAL. NTSC gives it a stable picture but BW as hell.

Help please.

 

[oneshot47]

How are you connecting it to the tv? S-vid or rca or what?

 

[Brian23]

Make sure you don't have any other video cables connected to your TV. Mine goes black and white if I have multiple inputs into the TV.

 

[leosalchemist]

S-Video out.

Originally posted by: oneshot47
How are you connecting it to the tv? S-vid or rca or what?

 

[leosalchemist]

Thanks for the input, Brian. I tried removing the network TV cable but no use. No other video input is hooked up.

Originally posted by: Brian23
Make sure you don't have any other video cables connected to your TV. Mine goes black and white if I have multiple inputs into the TV.

 

[Anubis]

are you useing a Svid-RCA adapter?

i know when i used to do the the reason was that i had the wrong kind of output selected, eben tho the cable was S-vid out of teh card i had to set it to RCA because thats how it went into the tv

 

[leosalchemist]

Originally posted by: Anubis
are you useing a Svid-RCA adapter?

i know when i used to do the the reason was that i had the wrong kind of output selected, eben tho the cable was S-vid out of teh card i had to set it to RCA because thats how it went into the tv

Yes, you are right. I'm using Svid-RCA adapter. But I couldn't find where to set the output. Still searching...

Hope this is it!

 

[Anubis]

Originally posted by: leosalchemist

Originally posted by: Anubis
are you useing a Svid-RCA adapter?

i know when i used to do the the reason was that i had the wrong kind of output selected, eben tho the cable was S-vid out of teh card i had to set it to RCA because thats how it went into the tv

Yes, you are right. I'm using Svid-RCA adapter. But I couldn't find where to set the output. Still searching...

Hope this is it!

a Nvidia or ATI graphics card?

if nvidia its in there where you select the TV as teh second output

for ATI i have no idea

 

[leosalchemist]

Originally posted by: Anubis

Originally posted by: leosalchemist

Originally posted by: Anubis
are you useing a Svid-RCA adapter?

i know when i used to do the the reason was that i had the wrong kind of output selected, eben tho the cable was S-vid out of teh card i had to set it to RCA because thats how it went into the tv

Yes, you are right. I'm using Svid-RCA adapter. But I couldn't find where to set the output. Still searching...

Hope this is it!

a Nvidia or ATI graphics card?

if nvidia its in there where you select the TV as teh second output

for ATI i have no idea

Thanks a lot for your help. But after I chose Composite video out, the screen went black comletely. I had to switch back to LCD to set it back to s-video again.

Anybody could help?

 

[imported_rhfactor]

I had the same problem with B/W picture using the S-Video cable. There is a setting in the Nvidia desktop that says what type of output it is. The default is Auto, I changed it to S-Video and it gave me color.

 

[leosalchemist]

Originally posted by: rhfactor
I had the same problem with B/W picture using the S-Video cable. There is a setting in the Nvidia desktop that says what type of output it is. The default is Auto, I changed it to S-Video and it gave me color.

I tried all three options available: auto; composite; and s-video. Auto and S-vid gave me BW pictures and Composite gave me black screen.