Need conncetion from my ATI to my TV

[Silverscreen]

I have tried using the RCA to S-Video to connect it to my tv, but my computer won't detect the TV. what should i do?

i have a ATI Radeon x1800xt 512mb

AMD x4200 dual-core

1mb ram

sony SDM-HS95P 19"

2 x Raptors

i have a goodmans TV, analogue. it has a scart connector and a 3 pin (red, white and yellow) and S-Video sockets.

[ripken204]

do you mean an svideo to rca adapter? thats what i do to connect to my tv. have you restarted your computer? i need to do that to make my vid card recognize the tv.

[nitroshift]

do you mean an svideo to rca adapter? thats what i do to connect to my tv. have you restarted your computer? i need to do that to make my vid card recognize the tv.

Yeah, that and a bit of fiddling around with the Catalyst...

[ripken204]

fiddline around? this method works perfectly for both my laptop(ati) and desktop(nvidia)

[nitroshift]

@ripken204

nVIDIA's setup is way simplier than ATI's. And he's using an ATI card. I found Catalyst a bit more tricky than Forceware, but that's probably because I live in Europe and when plugging the TV, Catalyst must be set to the appropriate TV system (PAL or SECAM) as its defaults are NTSC.

[wickerwolf]

Using ATI's catalyst is usauly fairly simple just go thru the display settings and set the tv as the primary display and in clone mode then it should work fine

[Silverscreen]

thanks guys, i will try it

[ripken204]

well you can clone it or you can set up a dual display which is what i do.

[Takeshi]

The card has S-video out and the TV has S-video in so why use RCA to S-video adaptor?

The manual says turn on TV, then turn on computer.

With TV out, the max. resolution is 1024x768.

[ripken204]

The card has S-video out and the TV has S-video in so why use RCA to S-video adaptor?

The manual says turn on TV, then turn on computer.

With TV out, the max. resolution is 1024x768.

lol, ur right, he said his tv does have svideo

and everything else you said is exactly right. the reason i dont clone my display is b/c my monitor is 1280x1024 and as you said, the tv is 1024x768, therefore alot is cut off...