why is tv black and white?

[tracy niven]

Please can anyone tell me why my tv is b & w when displaying the songs for the singers is there something i'm missing like a switch over unit before plugging into the tv?

[bobcox- with the Lord]

Are you hooking strait to TV, or going to a rf modulator first.
it is prob your video card settings.

[ddouglass]

This is another thread about this with some suggestions.
http://forum.mtu.com/showthread.php?...ht=black+white

[bryant]

Tracy, what exactly are you using for connections, now.

[George]

Tracy,

Right click anywhere on a blank spot on your desktop.

Select PROPERTIES, SETTINGS, and make sure the COLOR QUALITY selected is HIGHEST(32bit).

That may not solve the problem, but it's a place to start

[tracy niven]

Hi

thanks everyone for taking the time to respond i will be checking the wires first and the colour as i did have it working when i first set it up but then continuous taking apart and putting back together i might have bent some thing

[mindonstrike]

Broken/bent s-video pin ?

Last time I had a similiar problem it turned out to be a bad svideo cable. I never figured out why it was bad, it just didn't work with that particular computer although it would with others. A new cable fixed it.

[tracy niven]

Hi everyone

I threw tv in bin and bought a 15" flat screen lcd tv problem solved lol!!!!

Oh yes thanks GEORGE i did have to also turn up the colour to 32 bit

Thanks all

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!!

[George]

You're welcome, glad to help

[slsides]

Originally Posted by tracy niven

Please can anyone tell me why my tv is b & w when displaying the songs for the singers is there something i'm missing like a switch over unit before plugging into the tv?

i built a new computer for a kj friend of mine and he ran into the same problem of the extended display in black & white. i supplied the older-model radeon because my client said they were reportedly the most compatible with the video hoster software.

the display adapter in the machine is a radeon 7000 from sapphire, and i installed the catalyst from the cd that came with the card.

upon examining the catalyst controls, he finally found a setting for the s-video signal, which is set to "standard" by default. there are "less" and "more" settings that go along with the signal, and once he increased the s-video signal strength, the display on the tv screen got color.

the visiontek card in his previous computer didn't have this setting, so it was a matter of his going through all of the tabs in the driver software that got him to the solution.

incidentally, i read something from one of the mods saying that pre-7500 radeons can't dual-head. the sapphire radeon 7000 has a vga port and an s-video out, and the catalyst definitely supports multiple displays.

the only annoyance i ran into was that i had to have low profile because of the micro atx form factor case i used, and there is no low profile bracket available in the same configuration (s-video on the bottom, vga on top). Nothing a dremel tool can't take care of, though.

shaun