Chris wrote:
> Man, I just received the Sapphire Radeon 9550SE card today and guess
> what... I can not for the life of me get the TV out to work properly.
> The image is all washed out, flickering up and down, and in black and
> white. Terrible. I used their include VGA to composite adapter and
> hooked to the composte in of my TV. I also played with the settings
> in ATI, but nothing works.
>
> What a drag. I put in a trouble ticket with ATI. Hopefully on of
> their skilled technicians will get back to me soon, otherwise this is
> going right back to Newegg.
>

That could be a problem with the adapter itself. S-video consists of
two signals, Y and C. If only one was connected and working, I think
you'd get black and white. This is what is inside the adapter (see
ascii-art schematic at the top of the page).

http://www.epanorama.net/circuits/svideo2cvideo.html

Paul