S Video to TV

Ok so someone help me before I attack my puter!!

I have a Radeon 9600 PRO video card with a VGA, 7 Pin S Video, and DVI outlets out the back of computer.

I have a 7 pin s video cable and a 4 pin s video cable.

Then I have a RCA cable adaptor connected to one cable and inserted into my video in on my TV.

I turned everything off, connected it back up, went to Display prop (Windows XP), went to settings, advanced, and there is no TV tab to enable.

Please help - it's driving me insane!

was it all connected when you turned it on?

Hey Erena, Yeah like Neil says sometimes you need to have it connected up before you start up.

Have you had it working before? The other thing would be to ensure that manufacturers drivers have been installed properly.

Why do need to find an options tab for "tv"? There won't be anything there to enable viewing on the TV.

Usually when you have another monitor or TV plugged in the second monitor is enabled by ticking the "extended my windows desktop onto this monitor" option in Display Properties, on the Settings tab.

Whether the monitor is setup as a duplicate or dual screen is controlled by your ATI settings but either way it will work to watch movies etc... on your TV.

I had all cables connected before I started up my computer.

I think it is something to do with updating my graphics card driver and use the settings on there?

Gonna try that tonight.

YAY downloaded new driver for my Graph.Card.

It had options in the driver settings "detect displays" to force detection, such as tv etc. So there ya have it!

You probably just didn't install the driver properly when you reinstalled windows a while back eh?

I didn't install it at all - didn't know I had to LOL

HOWEVER, I have it all working... cloning desktop monitor to tv, BUT, whenever I go to play Cyberlink, Windows Media Player, or Quick Time etc to play any of my normally working video clips, the program in use freezes or it only plays the sound.

I can play movie clips in itunes sweet as (the ones I have imported)

If I disable the tv option in my graphics settings and disconnect the cable from the tv, then my prgrams will work successfully.

Oh dear god...what am I doing wrong??!

dunno whether you fixed this - I may be mistaken but I don't think you can run video on your PC monitor and TV at the same time as a "clone". I fixed this same issue by my making the TV the primary monitor (which would switch off the PC monitor) whenever I wanted to watch AVI files in mediaplayer etc on the widescreen TV.

A workaround on my new Imac has been to use the TV as a double monitor and drag the playing movie window across to it before hitting "full screen".

Modern cards can clone with different resolutions, you can have the normal res on your monitor and just fullscreen the movie onto the tv through svideo or composite.

Some laptops seem to struggle with this though.

Yeah what Greenie says is probably a good idea. Try using either only the TV as a monitor, or make it so they show two seperate images and drag the video window across before you play it.

Bob I don't think her card is that 'modern'