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X1900XT and a TV!

Most likely either a bad cable or just not pluged in all the way. Regardless, you'll be much better off with component, VGA. DVI or HDMI if your TV supports any of those.
 
Is it a HDTV? if so I would use component to get a highier res.. Other wise with S-video you will max out at 800x600 maybe even only 640x480. Ussually with S-video only showing black and white it has been a broken pin in my experience.
 
Svideo is a 480i signal, 720x480 interlaced. Drivers will let you run higher to a point anyway, but it's getting downsampled on output. But even if the display isn't HD, a better connection would provide a better picture.
 
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X1900XT and a TV!
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That's like saying a Viper and a parking garage! Whatever floats your boat though, I guess some TV's wouldn't be too bad to use. I would see if there are not any other connections to use though before utilizing S-Video.
 
I'd take a quality TV over any PC monitor for a high end gaming system. HTPC gaming is a whole nother world.
 
IIRC here are two possible causes for black and white output on a TV:

1. You've got the wrong signal format selected. Try a different one.
2. You've got the black-and-white effect enabled. Disable it.
 
3. You think you've got SVideo connected but only one of the two wires is actually connected. SVideo transports brightness (LUMA) and color (CHROMA) on separate wires.
 
Its not an HDTV, its 4 years old, pretty large flatscreen. Unfortunately its only got the S-video connector and those three little connectors that an XBOX plugs into.

Ive tried different signal formats, no luck there, i also found the black and white option and it was disabled.

This 2nd cable is probably it because i only see one cable hehe. Theres a fat black one.

Fat black cable: 4 pins and a plastic thing at the bottom, it connects to the TV but not the PC, the PC port has 9 pins.

Adaprot thing: it has two female slots for this 4 pin connector, and at the end it has the 9 pin male conector that fits into my PC. It also has two female connectors for some yellow cable. Is it this yellow one that needs to be plugged in? I havent found a male to male connector for it so ill have to look for that if the yellow one does color.
 
They "yellow" one is a composite cable. Essencially the same use as S-video but produces a lower quality picture.

Again sound like one of the pins on your S-video cable it broken.
 
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