Cliff notes: I get a signal from my X850Pro using component on my standard definition TV, and can see the image, but the colors are screwed up. Blue and maybe red are completely washing out green so the whole screen looks purple. Verified that all wires are sending signal. Adjustments don't help. Any ideas?
I just rebuilt my PVR computer with my AGP X850Pro after upgrading my main system. I thought maybe it'd work better for the PVR than the 9600Pro it was using before, and it does make it possible to use 3D accelerated output in BeyondTV now.
One of the things I was hoping to do was use the component video output from the X850. going to my older Sony Wega. I was using S-Video, which was massively better than the composite connection, but I was hoping component might be just a touch better. S-Video with the new card isn't appreciably different from the 9600Pro.
The TV supports up to 1024x768 60Hz input, though I found 800x600 looked better (and 640x480 doesn't look any better than that). I was going to see whether the component inputs affected that as well. I'm using the component video dongle which plugs into the 9-pin DIN connector on the video card.
It took me a while but I finally figured out how to even enable output to a standard definition TV. The Catalyst drivers and control center assume anything plugged into the component cable is an HDTV and only will send out that signal. I have to enable the Force TV Detection option to make an SDTV option available. Once I did that and enable the SDTV, I can get a usable signal. I had a VGA monitor connected to work on to get the TV up and running.
The problem is that the colors are screwed up badly. The entire image is just blown out with blue (or purple, I'm colorblind so it's hard to be sure). I played around with the cables and what signals are sent where. I swapped the blue and red wires to see whether one or the other was in fact not sending a signal, but they both seemed to be sending something at least (if I have green plugged in and then try each of the blue and red one at a time, I can tell when they're added). Can't swap the green wire since that's the sync signal. With the blue and red wires swapped, there doesn't seem to be any washing out of the color (though they're definitely not the right colors), it's only when they're both plugged into their proper connectors.
I tried adjusting the color settings in the control center, but that made no difference at all.
The manual for the card has a couple of things about colors being wrong, but their resolutions amount to "make sure the cables are in the right sockets". I couldn't find anything on ATI's support pages. I emailed them through their support page asking about compatibility with an SDTV, and they sent back a form response telling me to read the manual, referencing adapters that aren't compatible with my card, and telling me how to set up an All-In-Wonder card that I don't have. I responded back but they never answered.
I'm just trying to figure out if this is some unresolvable issue from the signal being sent not being entirely compatible with SDTV or if it's something that I can fix. ATI has adapters for DVI to component, but they're all for older cards since this one HAS a dongle for component output.
When it wasn't being blown away by the purple, the picture did look a little better than with the S-Video output.
I just rebuilt my PVR computer with my AGP X850Pro after upgrading my main system. I thought maybe it'd work better for the PVR than the 9600Pro it was using before, and it does make it possible to use 3D accelerated output in BeyondTV now.
One of the things I was hoping to do was use the component video output from the X850. going to my older Sony Wega. I was using S-Video, which was massively better than the composite connection, but I was hoping component might be just a touch better. S-Video with the new card isn't appreciably different from the 9600Pro.
The TV supports up to 1024x768 60Hz input, though I found 800x600 looked better (and 640x480 doesn't look any better than that). I was going to see whether the component inputs affected that as well. I'm using the component video dongle which plugs into the 9-pin DIN connector on the video card.
It took me a while but I finally figured out how to even enable output to a standard definition TV. The Catalyst drivers and control center assume anything plugged into the component cable is an HDTV and only will send out that signal. I have to enable the Force TV Detection option to make an SDTV option available. Once I did that and enable the SDTV, I can get a usable signal. I had a VGA monitor connected to work on to get the TV up and running.
The problem is that the colors are screwed up badly. The entire image is just blown out with blue (or purple, I'm colorblind so it's hard to be sure). I played around with the cables and what signals are sent where. I swapped the blue and red wires to see whether one or the other was in fact not sending a signal, but they both seemed to be sending something at least (if I have green plugged in and then try each of the blue and red one at a time, I can tell when they're added). Can't swap the green wire since that's the sync signal. With the blue and red wires swapped, there doesn't seem to be any washing out of the color (though they're definitely not the right colors), it's only when they're both plugged into their proper connectors.
I tried adjusting the color settings in the control center, but that made no difference at all.
The manual for the card has a couple of things about colors being wrong, but their resolutions amount to "make sure the cables are in the right sockets". I couldn't find anything on ATI's support pages. I emailed them through their support page asking about compatibility with an SDTV, and they sent back a form response telling me to read the manual, referencing adapters that aren't compatible with my card, and telling me how to set up an All-In-Wonder card that I don't have. I responded back but they never answered.
I'm just trying to figure out if this is some unresolvable issue from the signal being sent not being entirely compatible with SDTV or if it's something that I can fix. ATI has adapters for DVI to component, but they're all for older cards since this one HAS a dongle for component output.
When it wasn't being blown away by the purple, the picture did look a little better than with the S-Video output.
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