GeForce4 TV-Out appears Black & White

Slaanesh

Hooked up my Geforce4 to the television yesterday and I could only manage to get it working in black & white. I set the standard to PAL. I read in the manual that if it appears Black & White that you should select the cable you are using in one of the options. I searched high and low for this in the settings but I could not find it. Anyone else have this difficulty before ?

Slaan.

strat

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/me reads the entire post first ;p

i use s-vhs with my gf3 and i have to switch it to composite for color which is odd

get some www.TvTool.de skillz, fantastic software for tv-out shanagains

spongebob

there are PAL flavours

PAL B PAL C come to mind for our shores here, ya may need to twiddle a bit.

An early High Def standard that never took off, its used only in France and Russia, is SECAM

I know that SECAM videos play back onto PAL in B&W

M

PPC

My Geforce 3 showed in b&w.
I had a setting on my TV for AV3 and AV3S and when i turned it to AV3 it was in colour and when i turned it to AV3S it was in B&W.

So maybe you have a S setting somewhere.

I was using S-Video btw

CombatCow

Im having the same trouble with the color on my MSI gefore 4 ti4400 but i havent fiddled around enough yet with the settings.the new 40 det's have a crapload of new Nview options so i might mess around with them 2day.

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PPC

I had a setting on my TV for AV3 and AV3S and when i turned it to AV3 it was in colour and when i turned it to AV3S it was in B&W.

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That sounds familiar i might try that L8R.


COMBATCOW >:^)

Lucutus

Originally posted by StrataGIST
get some www.tvtool.de skillz

Slaan, this is the best thing on this thread about it, the software is only a tenner to get full versions of, so don't be shy, tvtool talks directly to the tv-out chip on yer geforce and gives you every possible option it provides, whether it's a Philips or Conexant or some other brand of tv-out chip.

nVidia's TV-Out support is notoriously shít anyway. I've decided to put off upgrading my gf3 and wait till the new ATI Radeon 9700's come down a little in price and check out the quality of the tv-out on them.

Luc

PS. tvtool is teh w1n.

Winters

I had no problem when I hooked up my MSI GF4 Mx440 to my TV. I used the Phono plug at first then used the S-Video plug yolk.

Update the drivers too....

Kali

Originally posted by StrataGIST
i use s-vhs with my gf3 and i have to switch it to composite for color which is odd

hmm there was a thread in A/V a while back where i answered this:

Originally posted by Kali
that's because your tv doesn't take an s-video connection...

an s-video cable itself contains seperate brightness and colour information.. therefore plugging that into a scart that only accepts a composite (as the name suggest its basically all information on one wire) will usually result in either a lack of colour (or a black screen if wired incorrectly).

so as you said, switching the output on the card to composite (and using the supplied s-video/composite dongly thingy) should result in a colour signal.

Originally posted by PPC
I had a setting on my TV for AV3 and AV3S and when i turned it to AV3 it was in colour and when i turned it to AV3S it was in B&W.

AV3S means its accepting a proper s-video signal... AV3 would probably look for a composite signal.