Nvidia Geforce 6600 TV-Out Help

I have an Nvidia Geforce 6600 /w S - vid out. The display is always
black and white. However the boot screen is in color and when safemode
is booted color also displays. Its quite strange all help appreciated.

Thanks

proph3t wrote:
> I have an Nvidia Geforce 6600 /w S - vid out. The display is always
> black and white. However the boot screen is in color and when safemode
> is booted color also displays. Its quite strange all help appreciated.
>
> Thanks
>

Svideo has Y,C,GND,GND signals. If the C signal doesn't make contact,
this page suggests the result will be black and white.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svideo

Where you mention the "boot screen" above, are you referring to seeing
color on your regular VGA or DVI monitor, that is also connected
to the card ? Or is your problem description above, all happening
on the Svideo display device ?

Paul

proph3t <craigoscott@hotmail.com> wrote:

> I have an Nvidia Geforce 6600 /w S - vid out.
> The display is always black and white.

I got the same result with a difference video card with TV out.
The problem turned out to be a non standard TV out connector
that looks like a standard svideo connector until you look at it
closely. I was using the composite signal, and with the video
card it was actually connected to the Y signal on the TV out.
Once I used the supplied adapter, the composite signal was
fine, full color available.

> However the boot screen is in color and when
> safemode is booted color also displays.

On the TV or on the monitor ? I forget what showed
on the TV with the original config color wise.

> Its quite strange

Nope, once you know what the problem is, its all rather obvious.

thanks for the reply however I see color on the TV display at the
windows xp splash screen on boot and when the computer is booted in
safe mode. The problem is really rather strange.

Color appears in the TV on boot screen and in safe mode.

Thanks


Rod Speed wrote:
> proph3t <craigoscott@hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> > I have an Nvidia Geforce 6600 /w S - vid out.
> > The display is always black and white.
>
> I got the same result with a difference video card with TV out.
> The problem turned out to be a non standard TV out connector
> that looks like a standard svideo connector until you look at it
> closely. I was using the composite signal, and with the video
> card it was actually connected to the Y signal on the TV out.
> Once I used the supplied adapter, the composite signal was
> fine, full color available.
>
> > However the boot screen is in color and when
> > safemode is booted color also displays.
>
> On the TV or on the monitor ? I forget what showed
> on the TV with the original config color wise.
>
> > Its quite strange
>
> Nope, once you know what the problem is, its all rather obvious.

I see color in the TV on the Windows XP boot screen and when windows XP
boots in safe mode.

Thanks!

Paul wrote:
> proph3t wrote:
> > I have an Nvidia Geforce 6600 /w S - vid out. The display is always
> > black and white. However the boot screen is in color and when safemode
> > is booted color also displays. Its quite strange all help appreciated.
> >
> > Thanks
> >
>
> Svideo has Y,C,GND,GND signals. If the C signal doesn't make contact,
> this page suggests the result will be black and white.
>
> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svideo
>
> Where you mention the "boot screen" above, are you referring to seeing
> color on your regular VGA or DVI monitor, that is also connected
> to the card ? Or is your problem description above, all happening
> on the Svideo display device ?
>
> Paul

proph3t <craigoscott@hotmail.com> wrote

> thanks for the reply however I see color on the TV display at
> the windows xp splash screen on boot and when the computer
> is booted in safe mode. The problem is really rather strange.

> Color appears in the TV on boot screen and in safe mode.

Then you likely have a driver problem. Those screens use a different
video mode to the one used when fully booted and its only that
particular video mode that is black and white for some reason.


> Rod Speed wrote:
>> proph3t <craigoscott@hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>>> I have an Nvidia Geforce 6600 /w S - vid out.
>>> The display is always black and white.
>>
>> I got the same result with a difference video card with TV out.
>> The problem turned out to be a non standard TV out connector
>> that looks like a standard svideo connector until you look at it
>> closely. I was using the composite signal, and with the video
>> card it was actually connected to the Y signal on the TV out.
>> Once I used the supplied adapter, the composite signal was
>> fine, full color available.
>>
>>> However the boot screen is in color and when
>>> safemode is booted color also displays.
>>
>> On the TV or on the monitor ? I forget what showed
>> on the TV with the original config color wise.
>>
>>> Its quite strange
>>
>> Nope, once you know what the problem is, its all rather obvious.