TV Output Quality - All-In-Wonder RADEON 9800 PRO

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I bought for $389 an ATI All-In-Wonder Radeon 9800 Pro, 128MB DDR, AGP 8x
video card for my newly built Pentium-4 system (800MHz FSB CPU & Motherboard
is a ASUS P4C800-E Deluxe).

Anyway, I'm just now playing with connecting it to my 32" Sony Wega TV.
I've connected it via S-Video.

The display looks "jumpy" on the tv, like it's shifting to the right and
left with a blur, once about every 3/4 second. Quite irritating. I have
tried both extending the windows desktop onto it (like having two monitors)
and cloning the primary display onto it (which I believe is what most
everyone does normally with it)

The only way I get rid of it is by changing the S-Video sharpness to Black &
White. I get a B&W image, but the shifting of the display goes away.

Does anyone have any ideas? I have updated to the latest drivers....

Tim
 
I was getting the same thing when I got digital cable hooked up to my
Panasonic 32" TV. I had several cable techs come over, only to tell me I
was seeing things. Finally, one of the supervisors came, and saw what I was
seeing and said it was the TV, which I believed, because I wasn't getting it
on my smaller 19" Sony TV. He pulled the cable from the back of the cable
box, which led to a still picture on the screen, which jumped wildly back
and forth. Again he confirmed it was the TV. I have the cable box
connected to the TV via the S-Video cable.

As it turned out, he was right, because I went into some advanced settings
in the TV and turned off all the filters and stuff, and the problem
disappeared. I re-enabled everything until I found the culprit. Now I
don't remember what it was off-hand, but maybe yours is a similar situation.
I had the exact same symptom. about every 3/4 second it looked like the
picture was lifting off itself and blurred.

Check your TV's filter settings.
 
Well, I tried something different. I left it plugged in, and reboot the
computer. I saw the startup logo of my motherboard (it lets me choose a
picture of my choice), and it and the WinXP startup screen.... all displayed
without the pulsating effect it has been doing......

Only when WinXP loads and I see my desktop do I see this. Perhaps it's the
higher resolution its using? Not sure.... :(
 
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