nVidia Card - Need help enabling composite video out..

[harrkev]

Hi. I have an MSI nVidia Geforce 5900 XT vid card with video in/out. I have a CRT attached to the first video output (15-pin connector). The DVI output connector and TV out feature are not being used right now...

Well, now I need to enable the composite video out feature, and I cannot seem to find a way to do this. When I first assembled the computer (17 months ago), I installed the driver CD that came with the vid card, and the video out feature worked great!

I reformatted the drive last September, and re-installed XP. I also installed the most recent (at the time) nVidia drivers. Now, I finally need to be able to support TV out, and the options are nowhere to be found. It used to work, so it seems to be a driver issue.

I installed the old drivers (the ones on the CD that came with the vid card), but the missing options are still not there. I also tried the most recent drivers on MSI's web site.

Any ideas?

 

[Markbnj]

Never actually done this, but if you right click your desktop, then click the entry for your display under "nVidia Display" you'll get the driver control panel. Click 'Tools' on the left menu, and in the resulting dialog page there is a section at the bottom called 'Troubleshooting' where you can ask it to force detection of a TV. Might want to see if that works.

 

[Wreckage]

right click on your screen and select "properties" then the tab for "settings" and then the button that says "advanced" Next select the tab with your cards name on it 5900 or whatever. This should bring up a little side menu for the NVIDIA drivers. Next select "tools" There is an option there to force TV detection. This may help. There is also a setting under TV's to select the output type.

 

[harrkev]

I managed to fix it. I had to un-install the drivers using Driver Cleaner Pro. Then, I re-installed using the supplied CD. Lastly, I re-installed newer drivers over the old ones. Now I'm feeling the love.

Driver Cleaner is powerful magic!