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Stimpy
12-25-2003, 11:38 PM
im trying to connect my computer to my tv but its just somehow not working.

i am connecting it with the svhs cable, then to a scart adapter into my vcr and then into the tv.

in the nview display panel i have it set on clone, and set up my 2nd monitor to be a pal-g or pal-b tv (for germany).

so far so good. only problem is that the output appears in black and white on my tv. i read on some websites that i have to say that its connected via svhs, as it would default to component output, and this might cause the b+w image, but i just can not access the setting all those websites describe.

if i reboot my computer i get the bootup windows screen with the flashing blue bar at the bottom in color. but as soon as i log on, everything is in black and white again.

any pointers anyone ???

i am using the latest nview version on win2k btw.
CgFX
12-26-2003, 02:38 AM
I don't think this has anything to do with the graphics card.

Ps. It isn't a SVHS cable it is S-Video or Y/C. SVHS is a tape and recording format from JVC/Matsushita.
elvis
12-26-2003, 09:10 AM
your software is overriding the card's auto detection of PAL/NTSC modes and forcing a mode your television can't handle.

the horrible side effect of american drivers and hardware is that they assume all users will use NTSC. your card is booting fine and detecting the PAL/B display (or has been set that way in hardware/BIOS) and then entering windows returns to NTSC.

either within the drivers themselves or using something like tvtool, force your tvout component to be PAL/B again.

i regularly have this problem with most tvout cards here in australia. some drivers are ok and will base their decision on your locale, others are just stupid and assume you're an american. :)
CgFX
12-27-2003, 05:07 AM
Good catch elvis. I don't even check a posters Location. :-\
elvis
12-28-2003, 12:26 AM
like i said, being in a PAL country i see this happen a lot. :)

what's more frustrating is often (with nvidia drivers at least) you can't set up your tv-out standard without actually having a television connected. so to set up a dedicated TV-out system you need to suffer through the squashed and black+white screen until the video drivers are installed and working.

particular to nvidia drivers, if you have set up your langauge and locale defaults correctly, the latest 50+ series of drivers will auto-detect the TV-Out standard correctly. i'm quite glad nvidia added that functionality finally. that, and the ability to add custom resolutions which is great for TV purposes.
Stimpy
12-28-2003, 02:47 AM
thing is, i have it set to pal-b or pal-g (which is said to be right for germany) but i still get the wrong output.

on some other board someone mentioned that the card will output to component instead of svhs and that there would be a switch to change that,which i just can NOT find. guess its a different driver version or something.

tvtools i tried twice but it was somehow too confusing both times and i ended up in tv-mode, which effectively shut down my monitor, forcing me to reboot into safe mode and re-installing my gfx-drivers to reset my screen-res :0
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