Gigabyte 6WMM's TV-out

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The TV-out from the i810 chipset on this board (it's a slot 1 board)
is like nothing I've ever seen before - there's a floppy-type ribbon
cable that joins to the proprietry AMR card where there's the RJ-11
modem, composite video and S-video outputs all on the one card! It's
truly bizarre...

Anyway, does anyone know how I get the TV-out to work? Was there some
special software that came with the motherboard (I don't have the CD -
it's second-hand, of course), or would there be settings on the
display properties (in Win2k) if I got the proper Intel video drivers?

There's also a Voodoo 2 card on this PC (one of the ones where you had
to plug in the 2D card's VGA out into the back of it) - should I
disable that if I want to use the integrated graphics' TV-out?
 
The TV-out from the i810 chipset on this board (it's a slot 1 board)
is like nothing I've ever seen before - there's a floppy-type ribbon
cable that joins to the proprietry AMR card where there's the RJ-11
modem, composite video and S-video outputs all on the one card! It's
truly bizarre...

Anyway, does anyone know how I get the TV-out to work? Was there some
special software that came with the motherboard (I don't have the CD -
it's second-hand, of course), or would there be settings on the
display properties (in Win2k) if I got the proper Intel video drivers?

There's also a Voodoo 2 card on this PC (one of the ones where you had
to plug in the 2D card's VGA out into the back of it) - should I
disable that if I want to use the integrated graphics' TV-out?
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Generally you do need the full driver, not one included with Windows.
That is, for most any video adapter you need that driver, I don't know
specifically about that motherboard.

You probably won't have to disable the Voodoo2 but if all else fails you
might remove it temporarily until you get the TV-Out working then
reinstall it.
 
kony said:
Generally you do need the full driver, not one included with Windows.
That is, for most any video adapter you need that driver, I don't know
specifically about that motherboard.

You probably won't have to disable the Voodoo2 but if all else fails you
might remove it temporarily until you get the TV-Out working then
reinstall it.
Click to expand...

Yeah, I got the proper Intel drivers, which has its own Control Panel
menu and a thing in the taskbar. The composite video quality is pretty
poor though - I know composite video is bad anyway (I don't have an
s-video TV) but the hard disks seem to interfere with it, along with
probably every everything else in the PC, and it can only do either
the VGA or TV output at one time - not both at the same time, which
kinda sucks. Though what do I expect with an on-board 4MB video card?

The Voodoo doesn't seem to affect it normally, but I haven't had it on
when playing any games yet - I assume nothing will appear on the TV
when using Glide anyway.
 
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