Black And White TV Out Issues Please Help!!!

[M O O T O N]

Hi there,

Im wondering if anyone can help me, i have a geforce 6600gt i have been trying for a while now to get my comp hooked up to the tv to watch films.
When i first tried i used a composite cable now the problem was when i cloned the display it would only come up in black and white on the tv, however when i go into the settings and change them to composite cable the tv shows colour and flickers but then goes blank! I have also noticed that when the computer first boots ie: post screen etc it is in colour right the way untill the windows log on screen. I have managed to resolve this issue (well sort of) by using a svideo cable but the problem there is its only a 4 pin plug with that bit of plastic in the middle which i had to trim down so that it would fit into the card because the card has a 9 pin socket which results in a dodgy connection with ghost images and lines etc. so i really could do with using a composite cable.

Also in display settings my tv comes up as hdtv which it isnt whether that has anything to do with it i dont know.

I have tried all the various settings ie:

pal/ntsc formats
saturation slider
cable selection
and pretty much everything i can think of.

If anyone has had this problem and figured a way of resolving it please help this is driving me crazy and i cant afford a new graphic card just yet! lol

thanks

 

[Nodsu]

First, you should have used a proper adapter to get from the 8-pin mini-DIN plug to a normal 4-pin S-Video. If I gave you a firewire device, would you hammer the plug into your USB port?

Anyway, try setting a lower resolution for the TV.

 

[M O O T O N]

lol!! yeh i know cutting away the plastic aint really a proper method but i tried looking for a 9 pin to 4 pin adapter but cant find one anywhere, hence why i did what i did. Ive tried lowering the tv resolution but it gets me nothing
i just find it really strange that when i use a composite cable the tv will be in colour for a few seconds and then go blank, this must be something to do with the drivers but ive tried various older drivers but that doesnt work either.

thanks for advice though.

 

[Nodsu]

Hum.. Google for vivo adapter and knock yourself out. (Reading the video card's manual would have given you a clue too.)