S-video problem [Black & white only]

[masta.z]

hey, i've been having a problem recently with S-video output only, i tried connecting my computer upto my TV with S-Video but the sdisplay is only in black and white.
previously i have managed it fine, and i can't work out why this time it's displaying only black and white instead of full colour. i've set the frequency to 60Hz and made sure the output is NTSC (damn crappy northern american NTSC crap *ahem*:D) and played around with every other setting i could find, yet it still refuses to output in colour
any ideas?

Ati Radeon 9200pro before you ask :)

Peace
MAsta.z!

[fkdup74]

have you had any other s-video components hooked up to the TV?
and did they work right?
have you hooked any other s-video displays to the PC?
and did they work right?
(recently that is...since you started having this prob....)

and lay off the crappy NTSC :P
it may be crap but its ours :lol: (we still got a better frame rate) :P

and its "color" not "colour" :P :w00t: :P

[fkdup74]

and how long is your cable?
i found this:
http://www.wildwestelectronics.net/moncabconyou.html

(of course it could just be a sales pitch for monster cable, but...)

[tesco]

could be a setting in the ati control panel.

in the nvidia's one it was set to b&w as default in the newest driver (dont ask why).

To get to the ati contorl panel right click desktop>properties>settings>advanced>click the ati tab(s).
look around there for color settings.

[masta.z]

have you had any other s-video components hooked up to the TV?
and did they work right?
have you hooked any other s-video displays to the PC?
and did they work right?
(recently that is...since you started having this prob....)

and lay off the crappy NTSC :P
it may be crap but its ours :lol: (we still got a better frame rate) :P

and its "color" not "colour" :P :w00t: :P
just tried to connect DVD-player up to tv with s-video and it no worky atall, not even black and white piccy, just all fuzzy like thingy (think it a crappy dvd player)
i ain't got any other tvs to try hooking comp upto that use s-video atm, until i take me computer outside and 50yards down to cottage at the end of motel, which as it a high of -5 today i think i'll wait for now :P

as for the cable thingy it's the exact same cable i used in the exact same tv and exact same computer (with probable driver updates) and i used to get COLOUR..

...and NTSC sux :p



@rosco i'll have a look around in the settings for something similar when am on me comp later (using parents comp atm) and i'll report back if i find anything :)

peace
Masta.z!

[Spicker]

i thought this was some racist thread :01:

[muchspl2]

yea it will be b&w if you don't specify s-vid in your display preferences, the default is composet.

[accat13]

i thought this was some racist thread :01:Not racist...But maybe an issue with colour vs. color......The great -our debate

Until 1998, Canadian Press bucked an institution as Canadian as snow in June. Its style manual insisted that its writers spell colour and honour without the u's.

In its defence, CP said that the spelling issue was not settled in Canada until 1890, when John A. Macdonald personally ruled in favour of -our so that "the same system should obtain in all portions of the British Empire." (Macdonald's order-in-council still applies to writers in government offices, a rare English example of language by edict!)

But as CP pointed out, only about 40 common words take -our, while many common words do not. And as Henry Fowler points out in his Modern English Usage, "By the side of favour there is horror , beside ardour pallor, beside odour tremor, and so forth." Worse still, many words that take -our lose the extra letter when the words are elongated. Glamour becomes glamorous , honour becomes honorary and colour becomes coloration.

However, newspapers notwithstanding, the most recent version of the Gage Canadian Dictionary finally gave the -our spellings precedence. And the Ottawa Citizen has returned to -our, suggesting a trend that we at Cornerstone can only cheer. Now that CP itself has fallen into line, the debate is pretty well over.

quoted from http://www.cornerstoneword.com/misc/cdneng/cdneng.htm

[fkdup74]

In its defence, CP said that the spelling issue was not settled in Canada until 1890, when John A. Macdonald personally ruled in favour of -our so that "the same system should obtain in all portions of the British Empire." (Macdonald's order-in-council still applies to writers in government offices, a rare English example of language by edict!)

blah....the whole world spent centuries trying to get out of Britain's grip...
and Canada goes and embraces it.... :P


just tried to connect DVD-player up to tv with s-video and it no worky atall, not even black and white piccy, just all fuzzy like thingy (think it a crappy dvd player)

hmmm.......maybe the TVs s-vid is goin bugshit?

[masta.z]

hmmm, i tried connecting me s-video to a different tv and it was b/w aswell :( but i tried using me s-vid --> composite thingy ma bob and it worked fine

no idea how to fix s-vid problem but for now i has colour so it all good :)

tanx for help

peace
Masta.z

(p.s. fkdup sucks baws :p)