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[turboinduction]

Well time for another computer problem that chances are no one can help me with.

First, let me start off that I bought the first season of Beast Wars: Transformers today. And oh boy its great. Go Dinobot. Aside from that.

I also bought a longer S-video cable, a 12 footer. Connected up the puter and the good ol 27" Apex (cheapie) TV. I finally played hide and seek with my Windows standard settings and got the SOB to run clone mode. Ended up installing my ATI standard drivers. However, (the big but!!!) I only get black and white. No color on the TV. The computer looks great, tv is in black and white. I then gave'r the good ol Google search. I only came to 105,000 responses, all of which are stupid and didn't give me any info.

ATI 128MB 9200SE
Windows XP
Brand spankn' new S-video cable, gold series high tech (good)
Apex 27" Cheapie TV
standard settings.
I get video - no color
and I just did a SCAN on the TV to see if that worked - nope

ANY CLUE PLEASE HELP ME!

-Ti

[creis]

hmm, i have never heard of that problem, change your setting from clone to monitor/tv and make sure to set the resolution way down for the tv, but that should not affect the color.

do you ahve a s-video conector in the tv its self or do you have an rf modulator (what I use to convert s-video to a standard cable signal and add the sound into the cable to so i only connect the one cable) there avalible at radioshack or online for about $10. I bet that with your apex (cheapo) tv the s-video imput sux and cant figure out the color right or something. and be sure that your s-video cable is good, and all the pins on both sides are going in straight and all the way. because that would do it.

I actualy have a 9200 se (I upgraded a wile ago) but I never seemed to have a problem using the RF modulator to get the tv to work, I did however cook the card many times (its just got that little heat sink that is not very good) the bigest problem I had was making sure to set up the acceleration to full in order to force it to send a full signal over to the tv, so i could get things in mediaplayer to display on the tv and not just a black screen.