black and white when I display on TV!!

maroon1

maroon1

New Member
why my screen is black and white when I run my computer with my tv?
when the computer boots, the screen is colored, but when windows start up it turns black and white. Also, the screen is colored when I run my windows on safe mode.
can anyone tell me how to make my screen displays with color, please

i have MSI geforce 6600 video card
my TV is JVC AV-K25MX3
and my tv is not HDTV.

and sorry for my bad english
 
i don't know the type of cable, but this picture might help

pict01541jo.jpg


the blue circle is for tv in, and the red circle is for the video card


here is another picture
pict01553re.jpg
 
You're using the composite (RCA) output. You indicated tv in, did you really mean tv out - what you are connecting to your tv? If that's the case it looks like you also have an s-video output, the black one in the middle.

This is quite a common problem (Nvidia in particular) for which there seem to be a host of solutions. As Motoxrdude suggested you should first go into the graphics card settings and check your settings for the tv out. Most important are the TV system of your location (NTSC - North America, PAL - Europe, Aus, NZ) and the output you are using, in your case composite. Play around with the saturation setting too.

It's not very likely to be a driver problem.

Starman*
 
Last edited:
I was trying to find a bit more info about settings. MSI don't seem to have online manuals. Something that puzzles me is that all the MSI 6600 cards I can find info on seem to have composite video in and s-video out only. Are you sure you are using the right output connection and cable?

If a tv only has a composite (RCA) input and the graphics card only has an s-video output, you can add an s-video to composite adapter. Cheap.

It could be I'm just looking at the wrong cards.

Starman*
 
Last edited:
Yup, hook it up to the blue one. It should be labeled "Pb/Video Out." It's the exact setup I have. I ran into the same problem untill I just started plugging it into everything. Let me know how you make out.
 
Asdfguy, from what you've said and I've found, are the connections as follows?:

Black s-video out
White s-video in
Orange - composite video in
Green - HDTV Y
Blue - HDTV Pb and composite video out
Red - HDTV Pr

Starman*
 
the only time i have personally had that happen is when a pin on the inside the end of the s-video connector is bent and your not connecting all pins.ive had similar probs growing up an seeing it bent pins giving bad color.but i had the black and white problem when i got stupid and tried to force the connection in upside down...bent one of my pins and i had a b&w pic....took time and patience to bend it back properly. but i hope im wrong.
 
ninjaburningsky said:
the only time i have personally had that happen is when a pin on the inside the end of the s-video connector is bent and your not connecting all pins.ive had similar probs growing up an seeing it bent pins giving bad color.but i had the black and white problem when i got stupid and tried to force the connection in upside down...bent one of my pins and i had a b&w pic....took time and patience to bend it back properly. but i hope im wrong.
Click to expand...

According to the picture, he's not using S-Video. It's a standard digital video connection.
 
If that is the Green HDTV cable that he is using, then it would be the Green part of the composite blue, yellow, green HDTV. This just means that he doesnt get all the colors, so its going to be black and white, as the TV cant cope. I would recommend the S-Vid if he has it.
 
I found in literature that the outputs seem to be described differently. One place it's s-video out only, another it has HDTV video. From my guesswork black is the s-video out. If your tv has an s-video in, that would be the best choice.

One of the HDTV outputs could be a standard composite out if composite were selected in the graphics. Asdfguy said blue is Pb/video out. I assumed from that, that blue could be connected to the composite input of the tv. You would only get a good picture if composite was selected in the graphics. If HDTV were selected you would just get the Pb signal.

Until Maroon1 gives some feedback, it's all hypotheticals

Starman*
 
asdfguy said:
Yup, hook it up to the blue one. It should be labeled "Pb/Video Out." It's the exact setup I have. I ran into the same problem untill I just started plugging it into everything. Let me know how you make out.
Click to expand...

how i didn't notice that, it worked for me with the blue one.
thanks u very much guys.
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top