S-Video cable

[talktwo]

Hi everyone ... here's a simple question I hope.

I have an 8500GT video card that came with an S-Video Out cable, on the end of the S-video cable there are four female connections in what would seem to be component, but then there is an "extra" yellow connection. Does anyone know what that is?

Also, when I connect using the s-video to component, the Windows XP screen loads fine, but when it gets to login screen, it's all scrambled. Hope someone can help, thanks.

[rfd_lurker]

Hi everyone ... here's a simple question I hope.

I have an 8500GT video card that came with an S-Video Out cable, on the end of the S-video cable there are four female connections in what would seem to be component, but then there is an "extra" yellow connection. Does anyone know what that is?

Also, when I connect using the s-video to component, the Windows XP screen loads fine, but when it gets to login screen, it's all scrambled. Hope someone can help, thanks.


Dont think it's a standard S Video cable, you need the little Dongle that came with the card. If the 4th connector is yellow it usually is video (RCA).

When you TV gets scrambled it is usually because the computer is sending the wrong resolution or refresh rate.

[talktwo]

Dont think it's a standard S Video cable, you need the little Dongle that came with the card. If the 4th connector is yellow it usually is video (RCA).

When you TV gets scrambled it is usually because the computer is sending the wrong resolution or refresh rate.

Sorry, it is the little dongle. On one end, it has male S-Video connector (goes into the video card), on the other end it has female red, blue, green, yellow connectors (goes out to TV).

Now, how would I fix the resolution and/or refresh rate if the screen is scrambled? Thanks.

[rfd_lurker]

not sure what tv you have.. find out the max resolution/refresh rates..

go into your vid card control panel and enable tv out (2nd display as TV). then set up the res/refresh in there...