why is tv black and white?

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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