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Old April 20th, 2006, 09:01 PM
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Unhappy second display is black and white!!!

I have a huge problem. I used my new second display last Friday. Everything worked great. I havent touched it since. So, as always, before a Friday show, I set up to practice. Now my monitor only shows black and white. Does anyone by chance know how to fix this???? I have a show in 24 hours. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
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Old April 20th, 2006, 09:40 PM
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I had this problem at "one" of my shows, but not others. It was the house TV, I used an RF adapter to fix that problem. Is it a "house" TV or your moniter? Also, check your RCA cord, if using one for crimps or loose ends. I always carry an RF adapter with me, in case of just this problem. If you are using coax, the connector there could be your problem.
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Old April 21st, 2006, 01:29 AM
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I am using a s-video cord, and just bought it today. I think my problem is with the settings or something, because I hooked up the other laptop to it, and it works fine, the only problem being i dont have all the music in the other laptop.
By the way, I am using a Zenith 20in flat screen, it is a monitor or tv.
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Old April 21st, 2006, 05:44 AM
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I have a huge problem. I used my new second display last Friday. Everything worked great. I havent touched it since. So, as always, before a Friday show, I set up to practice. Now my monitor only shows black and white. Does anyone by chance know how to fix this???? I have a show in 24 hours. HELP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
jaymek
I had that happen once. One computer was fine but the other was b&w. After a lot of troubleshooting it turned out to be a bad svideo cable.
Why it was bad for one computer and not the other (identical computers) I don't know, but replacing it fixed the problem.

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Old April 21st, 2006, 03:33 PM
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I am using a s-video cord, and just bought it today. I think my problem is with the settings or something, because I hooked up the other laptop to it, and it works fine, the only problem being i dont have all the music in the other laptop.
By the way, I am using a Zenith 20in flat screen, it is a monitor or tv.
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We think it is some setting on the video card, or the card is bad. Call the card manufacturer for their suggestions.

We had a similar problem with a Saphire Video card that after a few re-boots, it corrected the problem itself... no problem was found.
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Old April 21st, 2006, 03:45 PM
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had that problem too at one time..i have an lcd tv/monitor by magnavox ..when you hooked it up to your pc/laptop make sure when you clicked the menu screen..choose the one that says powered by pc instead of tv
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Old April 24th, 2006, 06:19 PM
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I Just wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions. I will try everything and then get back with evveryone, but please dont stop the suggestions!!


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Old April 26th, 2006, 06:02 AM
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I Just wanted to thank everyone for their suggestions. I will try everything and then get back with evveryone, but please dont stop the suggestions!!


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And please post back your solution which we can pass along to the next person with this problem.

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Old April 26th, 2006, 10:49 AM
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I had that happen once. One computer was fine but the other was b&w. After a lot of troubleshooting it turned out to be a bad svideo cable.
Why it was bad for one computer and not the other (identical computers) I don't know, but replacing it fixed the problem.

Sam
That's exactly what happened to me, at least twice, those little pins have a real tight tolerance and don't want to work in every slot for them.
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Old April 26th, 2006, 11:16 AM
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I would agree that most likely the problem is the cable to the TV.

Also, you might try updating the drivers from the Manufacturers website as I have seen this happen before, due to a driver issue.
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Old April 30th, 2006, 12:09 AM
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I Just wanted to let everyone know that to no avail, I still have the problem. Cords are new, drivers uninstalled and redone, Dell Technician was at my house and couldn't fix it. I'm screwed!!
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Old April 30th, 2006, 11:44 AM
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what video card are you using ?? I have run into this a few times. and it was the settings on the g-force card. check your settings for TV. Bob
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Old April 30th, 2006, 01:52 PM
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Perhaps!

Hi,
i had the same problem many months ago.Visit here and see if this helps you.It solved my problem.

http://www.svideo.com/svideoscart.html
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Had this problem after having to reinstall after a system crash.

At first I just thought it was the TV as I was having problems with the color on it before.

With the display attached:
  • Right click on the desktop
  • Select properties
  • Click settings
  • Click on the 2 in the display window to select the secondary display
  • verify the color and size settings
  • if these are ok click advanced
  • click the monitor tab and verify the display type is correct
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Old May 1st, 2006, 04:39 PM
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Have the Dell Tech put a new Video card in the system, most likely the card has gone bad.
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Old May 2nd, 2006, 03:07 PM
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Thumbs up Cable is the culprit!

I have been following this thread because I had the same problem. I am going to get Hoster, but first I dowloaded the Demo and tried it. When it came time to hook the laptop (HP dv5150us) the display in the TV was B&W. I tried another computer (Dell) and 2 other TVs as well as an RF adapter to take the signal through the cable input of the TV. All gave a B&W picture.

The problem was that I was using a S-video cable that was splitting the signal into video (yellow cable) and color (black cable). This morning I paid a visit to the local MicroCenter and I got a s-video to single male RCA plug. The signal now is beautiful!

Hope this helps.

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Old May 2nd, 2006, 09:03 PM
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The problem was that I was using a S-video cable that was splitting the signal into video (yellow cable) and color (black cable). This morning I paid a visit to the local MicroCenter and I got a s-video to single male RCA plug. The signal now is beautiful!
Thanks for this valuable fact BANDL!

Also, thanks to everyone working on this problem. The MTU.Community is working!
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Old May 12th, 2006, 12:29 PM
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I actually think that the problem was between the monitor and the software. I switched to a different monitor and I don't have a problem. Now, I'm sure there is a solution to the monitor problem, but the show must go on, so I just fixed it for now. Thanks to everyone.


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