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TV Out "Not Connected" on Radeon 8500LE??

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John P

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I bought a Radeon 8500LE from the Newegg deal a while back. When I go to the display tab the TV Out is grayed out and I can't enable it. The same connection works fine for my Hollywood+ card. What gives? Am I missing a setting somewhere?

Edit: I still can't get this to work. Was there a special adapter that came with the Radeon for S-Video to RCA video connector, I am using one I found laying around? An S-Video connector is an S-Video connector right? Could that be the problem?
 
tdas2,
Like I said, the connection works fine with my Hollywood+ card on the same computer. There is nothing wrong with the S-Video to TV connection.
 
Bumpism.

I remember having a similar problem with my dual head Geforce2 MX 400 but I don't remember how I resolved it. At the display properties screen it shows monitors 1 and 2 and lists 2 as "Default Monitor" even though I only have one monitor and the TV hooked up. It won't let me change the settings of monitor 2. When I higlight monitor 1, click advanced, then the displays tab - the only option available under "scheme" is "Default Single Display". There has got to be something simple I am missing - anyone??
 
my cable you had to push in really hard to get it to fit... i dunno if thats the case here, but it might help.
 
OK, I answered my own question as usual. While searching through my highly organized computer parts drawer (cough, cough) I found a different S-Video to RCA dongle. It was probably the one that came with the card and now the TV out works fine.

The weird thing is that the S-Video connector on the card has 6 small pin holes and the connector that works only has 4 pins (like most of the other S-Video connectors on my VCR and MiniDV camcorder). The dongle that didn't work had 6 pins, it's probably the one that came with my old STB Velocity 128 or Guillemot TNT2 Ultra, what is the difference between the two (4 vs 6 pins) I wonder?
 
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