PC to TV, Set up assistance please

You shouldn't need both yellow RCA and s-video cables plugged in, it will use either one or the other.

Seeing as it is standard definition, I think you should set the resolution to 1024x768 if it is a 4:3 TV, for widescreen I'd choose 1024 x 576, refresh rate(depending on region, I would choose 50hz for USA or 60hz for everywhere else

I think you got that last part backwards, MrNeeds. Isn't it 60hz for US and 50hz for UK?

...yeah, I just looked it up. I may be animation but I dabble in the technicalities of film. It has to do with how our electrical currents are different, so based on that, different refresh rates evolved for television and film. Different scan lines, 24fps vs 25, aspect ratios, all because of the electrical current standards already in place and divisibility... I love nerding out about it way too much.

Miranova23 said:

I think you got that last part backwards, MrNeeds. Isn't it 60hz for US and 50hz for UK?

...yeah, I just looked it up. I may be animation but I dabble in the technicalities of film. It has to do with how our electrical currents are different, so based on that, different refresh rates evolved for television and film. Different scan lines, 24fps vs 25, aspect ratios, all because of the electrical current standards already in place and divisibility... I love nerding out about it way too much.

You're right, I'd be sleep posting again

Np. Everything else is spot on though. :)

Actually, upon reading the op's post again, now I'm concerned why he is getting a black and white image. Would that be from trying to use both the s-video and yellow video input?

ThomasD, what brand & model graphics card do you have? This can be found here: Start > right-click Computer > Manage > in the left-hand panel, Device Manager > center panel, Display Adapters. (If you are on XP as your specs say, this should be the same.)

Miranova23 said:

Np. Everything else is spot on though. :)

Actually, upon reading the op's post again, now I'm concerned why he is getting a black and white image. Would that be from trying to use both the s-video and yellow video input?

ThomasD, what brand & model graphics card do you have? This can be found here: Start > right-click Computer > Manage > in the left-hand panel, Device Manager > center panel, Display Adapters. (If you are on XP as your specs say, this should be the same.)

Uk TV's do support 60hz but some CRT TV's don't, the refresh rate may account for black and white, and either the resolution or/and the double cable inputs may account for the image relaying

If you use S-Video you will almost certainly need a separate audio connection. The Yellow video chord only supports 4:3 I think and I'm not sure if it supports a color signal.

kado897 said:

If you use S-Video you will almost certainly need a separate audio connection.

Oh, yeah I forgot about that, too. When I used to do this with my laptop all the time, I got used to it just coming out of the laptop speakers (plenty loud enough tg) or hooking up ipod speakers to the headphone jack.

As for the Intel (R) G33/G31 Express Chipset, I'm not familiar with any auxiliary program that would involve to control it. Is that the "Powerstrip" you referred to?
1. Have you been trying to use just s-video or the yellow video input?
2. Changed the refresh rate? (Some digging in your tv's manual or on-screen menu should indicate which it should be.)
3. Have you been adjusting settings through Display Properties in Control Panel, or some other program?