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I'm loseing my mind trying to get this to work! The Tv-Out on my video card is what I belive is called a minidin(?) it has 8 pin holes, 7+1 black plastic pin hole. Anyways, I have an adapter that turns that into regular composite which goes straight to the TV input. So thats setup fine, but then when I turn on my TV the screen flickers and there's 7 bars that go from black to gray to white. I tried messing around Nview and TVtool, but I dont really know how to set them up. What I want to do is be able to watch a movie or use an emulator or whatever on the TV, while still using my monitor for work or the internet. If someone can help or needs me to clarify I would appreciate it!
Thank You
P.S. Does anyone in america know of a store that sells long S-Video cables cheap, i.e. not Best Buy, Circuit City, ect.?
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Anyone? I cant get an answer anywhere else.
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I have the same card as you, the way i used to do it is with the gfx drivers themselfs, never liked tvtool.
Download the latest Gforce gfx drivers, go into the gfx settings, rightclick desktop, properties, settings, advanced, GF4 TI 4200 tab, troubleshooting, check the 'my tv does not appear box' and restart pc.
Once you have done all that, go into the gfx settings again, rightclick desktop, properties, settings, advanced, GF4 TI 4200 tab, nview display mode, then change to tv.
You can also set up a shortcut key like ctrl+q (its what i used) in the 'desktop management' thing on the left.
Hope this helps, and hope its what your talking about
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I did what you said and set it up right, but I get the same problem. The only thing displayed on the TV is 7 flickering grey scale bars and nothing more. The only thing I can think of is the TV or the Video Card doesnt like the S-Video to Composite adapter? I'd like to try it with an S-Video cable but I dont have one right now, and it would have to be 12 ft. in length.
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Please, PNY doesent have any contact info and I dont know where else to post this question. Someone has to know why my TV displays only flickering greyscale bars?
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Sounds to me like the card is outputting video in PAL mode, and there should be some place in the driver settings to switch it to NTSC. When I formatted my computer once, I had to do the entire Windows XP install with the black and white flicker (the drivers reset back to PAL after the format) because I didn't have a VGA monitor in the house. Thank God my TV had a 'freeze' function, so I could kinda see what I was doing. Oh well, pointless story.
ANYWAY
If that doesn't work, then the only thing I can think of is that the adaptor you have isn't compatible with your card. 7-pin s-video jacks on the back of video cards don't follow any certain standard, and were created to save space instead of having 2 seperate jacks for s-video and composite. 4 pins are for the s-video signal. Those 3 extra pins are for the composite video signal, and the position of those pins could vary with the manufacturer. Manufacturers usually supply their own adaptor to convert those 3 pins into a simple RCA jack. -
It is set to S-Video and not composite but I did try both. I think i'm going to go pick up an S-Video cable tommorow.
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I just picked up an S-Video cable and still get the same problem! Now i'm really mad!
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Have you tried reading up on nView in the User's manual?
http://download.nvidia.com/Windows/53.03/ForceWare_Graphics_Drivers_Users_Guide_2nd_Edition.pdf
I would make sure you are doing everything right from a software standpoint. If you are and it still doesn't work, then maybe you have some defective hardware. -
I figured out the problem, the computer thinks there isnt a TV chip on the card. So either the chip on the card is bad or the latest drivers dont work right? Where can I get the last few Nvidia drivers?
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http://www.nvidia.com/object/winxp-2k_archive.htmlOriginally Posted by bladestorm
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