hi, please can u help me! how do i connect my pc to my tv so i can use my tv as a monitor? i hav an acer pc and dont know how it works very well. my tv only has scart connections and the red yellow and white inputs. PLEASE HELP ME! any info will be very much appreciated! lewis

If you had a S-VHS connector on your graphics card and one on your TV that would work.

The red and white plugs are for audio so you would need a small headphone plug to 2 phono plugs cable.

A yellow phono plug on your graphics card would indicate normally video in and not video out.

There's been a whole thread about this very subject in the last 3/4 days!
Search and ye shall find!!

Can you hook up a TV as a second monitor easily? like doubling your screen size really.

You can use the extended desktop in windows to span both screens, but you'll probably find the TVs resolution a bit hard to read text on. It's worth it for watching films and stuff though, you can have the film on the TV and keep doing whatever you're doing on your main monitor.

Yeah that's what I wanted it for, do you need any special software or would XP just adjust itself?

It should just work, the only software required will be the drivers for your graphics card. If it's an nvidia card you need to have the s-video lead plugged in before you boot the PC otherwise it won't detect it (and therefore won't offer you the option of an extended desktop), but all you need to do is right click on the desktop and go to properties, then the settings tab, then select monitor #2 in the display and select 'extend my windows desktop onto this monitor'. From there you can play with the resolution settings etc.

Oh, if it looks black and white you'll need to tell your graphics card that the TV uses PAL-B - that's the correct one for the UK IIRC.

Ahh thanks, it is an Nvidia card I wondered if I'd have to reboot I'll hook it up next reboot n give it a whirl. Thanks for your help :)

Well I got this working on my old pc perfectly but now I have a nvidia 7600gt and I just can;t get it to work, whatever happens its in black and white I've tried all the different region settings and rebooting and it won;t work. Any suggestions?

Make sure you have downloaded the latest drivers. Can you actually set the standard to PAL rather than just relying on the region settings?

Yeah latest drivers are installed and yes it automatically chooses PAL which was no good so I went through all the other regions

Well I got this working on my old pc perfectly but now I have a nvidia 7600gt and I just can;t get it to work, whatever happens its in black and white I've tried all the different region settings and rebooting and it won;t work. Any suggestions?

Is it set to output as SVHS? That, or it being NTSC, would cause it to be black and white.

It's set to S-video connexion type and I/Pal (UK) format.
:huh:

It's set to S-video connexion type and I/Pal (UK) format.
:huh:

S-Video (SVHS) carries the colour and luminance (B&W) information in separate channels. Your TV can only see the luminance channel, hence everything being black and white.

Change it to "composite", which should be an option, and it should be fine.

S-Video (SVHS) carries the colour and luminance (B&W) information in separate channels. Your TV can only see the luminance channel, hence everything being black and white.

Change it to "composite", which should be an option, and it should be fine.
No Nvidia's 'control panel' is a bit lame, I can choose either :
" S-video - NTSC or PAL standard definition televisions. "

"component - high definition TVs"
or
" Auto detect"

And within those connection categories it gives format options.

Your other option would be an SVHS-Composite converter from Maplins. I used to have one, cost about a fiver....

Cheers Chris :thumbsup:

Not a problem - I went through all this rigmarole at uni (when tv-out was uncommon). Now I just have my media centre hooked up to my TV via DVI.

And you'd think that was a simple way round...