S-video not functioning

Eklipze3k

Eklipze3k

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I'm trying to hook up an old PC to the TV. It has an Nvidia GeForce 3 Ti 200, which has S-Video out. When I connected it to the TV without having the monitor attached all the boot screens appear correctly but when it gets to the XP "Welcome" screen I get presented with a scrolling image where everything is illegible and unusable.

When I connect the monitor at this stage I can see everything on there fine but it seems to think there is nothing attached to the s-video. I've tried updating the drivers to no avail ... restarted god knows how many times and now I'm officially stumped.

The only thing I can think is some of the old drivers are conflicting but I can't figure out how to remove them. The only other option I can think is to re-install XP but wondered if anyone else had any other ideas first.
 
Reinstalling XP won't solve this. Configuring multiple desktops on the other hand is what is needed there. NVidia should have something seen in it's display manager similar to ATI Catalyst Control Center for setting up more then one monitor. Along with that you have to go into the menu on the tv to change inputs to the S-Video setting there. There are other softwares available as well for cloning desktops.
 
The Nvidia control centre does have the option for TV but it's not detecting the fact that it's even attached to the card. I'm not trying to clone the desktop though, I want to use the TV instead of the monitor - which I was doing with my main PC until I decided to use this one instead. The TV is on the S-Video input as well and auto-detects the refresh rates etc.

That's why I think it's more likely to be a driver issue because the option isn't even there to select the TV.

[edit]OK, I've just re-installed XP and it still doesn't work. Does anyone have any ideas how to get this to work ? When I ask the Nvidia control panel to do a rigorous detection it gives me a windows error reporting thingy :(
 
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