Tv-out is black/white only

**noview** · 18th October 2002

Connected a Gfmx420 (yeah yeah..) to a Tv (3 yr old Sony) with a S-video cable, but picture is only black/white. Tried some differnt settings on comp like Pal-B, which is supposed to be the correct one, but they're all black and white. Could this have something to do with the TV? Or maybe try a composite cable instead, as the graphic card has option for both S-video and composite (I think it's called composite, the yellow plug)

**Anekta** · 18th October 2002

Hi mate!
ok, maybe you should check out on your tv if you dont have any other composite yellow cable pluged in. I had that problem once when I tryed to plug in my s-video cable from my satellite receiver to my tv. I had a yellow composite video that I forgot to unplug before and I had black and white also.

So maybe thats your problem. Anyways check out your s-video cable pins to see if theres none bended or broken, cause that may be it also.

Good luck!!

**emperor_a** · 18th October 2002

you can also try the program called tvtool, it's great for tv-out purposes, makes it able to record to a VHS recorder.

**noview** · 20th October 2002

It somehow worked when I got a new compsite cable instead of the s-video.. dunno why really, but the colours are there. Thanks for help guys

**Lethargy** · 22nd October 2002

Probably just had a bad connection or bad cable. S-Video seperates the color from the brightness on the same cable (4 leads) where as the composite carries all the information on just 2 leads. More than likely the connection wasn't being made somewhere along the way for the color portion of the signal.