Problems with 9200 output to a TV

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Heckler ²°°³

Hi all

Firstly, apologies if this has been asked a thousand times before, I did a
quick search but couldn't find anything.

My bruv has just bought a new PC and wanted to hook it up to his tv, he's
got an OEM ATI Radeon 9200 (one with no fan, just heatsink). Now although
I'm pretty good with most hardware, I've never actually hooked up a pc to a
tv before, so I told him hat he'd need and he went and got it.

This is where the problems began, on the back of the vid card there is an
svhs socket, I assumed that plugging in a svhs lead and hooking the other
end to the tv would work fine, however it hasn't. after hooking up all the
cables, and making sure the tv was set to the right AV channel, I switched
on the PC... but no matter what I try, I can't get it to recognise that
there is another display connected.

Now this has frustrated me for a while, there is a svhs to composite adaptor
that came with the PC, does this eman that the only way to hook it up is via
this and a normal video composite lead? I had hoped you could use an svhs
lead because of the better picture quality.

Also, do you have to adjust the desktop resolution or can you set the
resolution for the TV display seperately?

Thanks for any advice you can give.

H
 
Heckler ²°°³ said:
Hi all

Firstly, apologies if this has been asked a thousand times before, I did a
quick search but couldn't find anything.

My bruv has just bought a new PC and wanted to hook it up to his tv, he's
got an OEM ATI Radeon 9200 (one with no fan, just heatsink). Now although
I'm pretty good with most hardware, I've never actually hooked up a pc to a
tv before, so I told him hat he'd need and he went and got it.

This is where the problems began, on the back of the vid card there is an
svhs socket, I assumed that plugging in a svhs lead and hooking the other
end to the tv would work fine, however it hasn't. after hooking up all the
cables, and making sure the tv was set to the right AV channel, I switched
on the PC... but no matter what I try, I can't get it to recognise that
there is another display connected.

Now this has frustrated me for a while, there is a svhs to composite adaptor
that came with the PC, does this eman that the only way to hook it up is via
this and a normal video composite lead? I had hoped you could use an svhs
lead because of the better picture quality.

Also, do you have to adjust the desktop resolution or can you set the
resolution for the TV display seperately?

Thanks for any advice you can give.

H
Click to expand...

Right click the desktop and choose 'properties'. Then choose 'settings'
'advanced' 'displays' and enable the TV. I havent used this so let me know
if that works. Shaun
 
Heckler ²°°³ said:
Hi all

Firstly, apologies if this has been asked a thousand times before, I did a
quick search but couldn't find anything.

My bruv has just bought a new PC and wanted to hook it up to his tv, he's
got an OEM ATI Radeon 9200 (one with no fan, just heatsink). Now although
I'm pretty good with most hardware, I've never actually hooked up a pc to a
tv before, so I told him hat he'd need and he went and got it.

This is where the problems began, on the back of the vid card there is an
svhs socket, I assumed that plugging in a svhs lead and hooking the other
end to the tv would work fine, however it hasn't. after hooking up all the
cables, and making sure the tv was set to the right AV channel, I switched
on the PC... but no matter what I try, I can't get it to recognise that
there is another display connected.

Now this has frustrated me for a while, there is a svhs to composite adaptor
that came with the PC, does this eman that the only way to hook it up is via
this and a normal video composite lead? I had hoped you could use an svhs
lead because of the better picture quality.

Also, do you have to adjust the desktop resolution or can you set the
resolution for the TV display seperately?

Thanks for any advice you can give.

H
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H,
If you are using one of the scart sockets on your tv then you may need
to check it supports s-video. Often, scart socket 1 supports RGB and
composite and socket 2 supports s-video and composite. If the video card
does not detect the correct socket terminations from the tv, then it assumes
it is not plugged-in and disables tv-out.

Dave
 
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H,
If you are using one of the scart sockets on your tv then you may need
to check it supports s-video. Often, scart socket 1 supports RGB and
composite and socket 2 supports s-video and composite. If the video card
does not detect the correct socket terminations from the tv, then it assumes
it is not plugged-in and disables tv-out.

Dave
Click to expand...

Thanks Dave, and Shawk

Got it all sussed, it was a combination of the scart socket (needed to be in
scart 2) but the tv needs to be set to AV3 (SVHS) for the pic to be in
colour (in AV2 it's B&W), after some fiddling around with settings, we got
it working perfectly. I was a little disapointed that the text is a little
blury, but it's mainly being used to output video and dvd to the TV and not
for browsing.

Cheers guys
H
 
Hello,

Thanks Dave, and Shawk

Got it all sussed, it was a combination of the scart socket (needed to be in
scart 2) but the tv needs to be set to AV3 (SVHS) for the pic to be in
colour (in AV2 it's B&W), after some fiddling around with settings, we got
it working perfectly. I was a little disapointed that the text is a little
blury, but it's mainly being used to output video and dvd to the TV and not
for browsing.

Cheers guys
H
Click to expand...
Having read your questions and the answers and also this last posting
of yours I am glad to hear that it works.
However I should like to point out to you that you can make some
changes in the settings of the ati-driver that should allow for better
results depending on if you want to play a dvd or be able to read the
letters on your tv. So take a look in your ati-helptext! Not that with
me those settings made any visible difference... but I own a cheapo
tv-set, maybe yours is better.

I am in a more or less comparable situation with my Sapphire Radeon
9200 vidcard and tv but I can only use composite because my tv does
not have a s-video-in. And what strikes me is that no matter how I
fiddle around with my settings I *never* can read letters well on my
tv display. But perhaps with s-video quality it should be possible. I
don't know.

Max M.
 
On Tue, 25 May 2004 12:00:11 GMT,
Hello,


Having read your questions and the answers and also this last posting
of yours I am glad to hear that it works.
However I should like to point out to you that you can make some
changes in the settings of the ati-driver that should allow for better
results depending on if you want to play a dvd or be able to read the
letters on your tv. So take a look in your ati-helptext! Not that with
me those settings made any visible difference... but I own a cheapo
tv-set, maybe yours is better.

I am in a more or less comparable situation with my Sapphire Radeon
9200 vidcard and tv but I can only use composite because my tv does
not have a s-video-in. And what strikes me is that no matter how I
fiddle around with my settings I *never* can read letters well on my
tv display. But perhaps with s-video quality it should be possible. I
don't know.

Max M.
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Not much point, Max, and Heckler. The reason for the poor text
display is the low resolution of the TV screen, and has nothing to do
with the videocard or drivers.

Until you start getting to HDTV, even biggest and best TV screens
still have very low resolution as compared with even cheap computer
monitors. The reason is simply that they don't need better - TV
pictures just aren't that high quality.

patrickp

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