Computer to TV

[paulshea]

I'm having trouble connecting my computer to my TV. I've done it before with a different TV but my current TV does not work with my computer. The audio works fine but the video is just in black and white and not stable. It has a bar the runs from top to bottom every second or so and makes watching the TV really bad.

I have done it on other TVs in the past so I'm wondering why it wont work on this TV. Any help would be great. Thank you.

[cim]

Have you checked your cables?

[guns1inger]

A couple of things come to mind, but it depends how you are connecting the computer to the TV.

Older gfx cards used an s-video out on the graphic card, and often provided a short adapter lead. If you use s-video then you should reduce the resolution to 800 x 600 (although a really good TV might handle up to 1024 x 768 - I know my Loewe CRT does). If the resolution is too high, you will get disrotions, rolls etc.

The odd thing about the adapter lead was that it had s-video at one end, but terminated in a standard RCA plug. If you connect a normal RCA video lead to this you will get a black and white image.

[paulshea]

The TVs I've gotten it to work on were older TVs in general at least 3+ years old.

The computer is from Thailand and I could connect it fine to TVs in Thailand as well as in England, but I'm currently living in Korea and trying to hook it up to a Xcanvas TV (from LG). The connecting cord ends ion the standard red white and yellow pins.