S-video to TV problems with WIN 7, please help!

I recently upgraded graphics card (well, to a nicer AFFORDABLE option) to a Saphire Radeon HD 3650 512 mb ddr2 dvi/tvo agp.

When connecting to the TV in my living room via HDMI everything works nice. However, my computer is in my bedroom and I often want to hook my computer to the TV to watch movie that way. I purchased the style of cables pictured at the following link.
Amazon.com: PC to TV Premium Cable (S-Video + 3.5mm to Composite Audio/Video) 5ft (1.5M): Electronics


However, when I connect to my TV... the color is in black and white and there is constant screen flicker. I tried adjusting the settings in windows and via Catalyst control but I can't seem to fix the problem. Anyone know what I can do?

yrwintersnow, welcome to the forums.

It could be that because that cable you bought is a standard 4 pin s-video cable, and unless Sapphire did something different the card has a non-standard 7 pin connector. Your ard should have come with one or both of the following,




both of which are 7 pin on the s-video end.

found this and plugged it in:

Fixed the screen flicker but it still displays in black and white. any ideas?

Not sure where to pint you to look but from reading some of these,

tv out black and white - Google Search

it looks like it comes down to what the TV out option is set to; PAL, NTSC and whatever variations of each are available,

NTSC - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia