nvidia tv-out problem

[lalala789]

Hi all,

I was wondering if anyone could help me with this problem. I know it has
been described before (not on this list) but the solution doesn't look too
simple to me;
I have a Geforce 4 4200 from Chaintech with 128 Mb.
When I try to connect my pc to my tv (sony) using s-video-cable in pc and
scart in tv, there's no signal at all. The geforce just doesn't 'see'
there's a tv attached. When i go into the control panel of the geforce-card,
to the tab nView it only displays my monitor (even if I booted my pc with
monitor cable disconnected), and all other options are grayed out...
I think the problem might be that the geforce-card doesn't receive a signal from the tv-set...

Seems not an ordinary problem, cause I haven't seen a description of this
before...

All help would be very much appreciated!
thanks!!

[Qyd]

the video card should send tv-out signal regardless if tv is connected or not; I don't think that tv is plug-and-play after all...
did you enable "clone" mod in the geforce tab (advanced display propreties)?

[lalala789]

Hi QYD,

that's the exact problem, i cannot select 'clone' in the Geforce-tab! all options but 'standard' are grayed out. I think that's the main problem: I guess first I must achieve setting 'clone' to activated (but how?) and then it might work...
Any ideas on what could be the reason that 'clone' and all other options are grayed out?

btw. when I press the button 'detect monitors' he doesn't detect anything else but my computer-monitor...

thanks in advance

[hermanthegerman]

TVTool may fix the problem.
Download a free trial version from http://www.tvtool.de and see if it works.

Servus,
herman

[Qyd]

It looks rather that your drivers and video-card software haven't detected the tv-out chip that should be on the video-card.
Now in the main tab of the advanced display properties (Geforce...) there should be a picture with information like processor type (for the video card), IRQ and TV encoder type. If there's nothing at tv-encoder type, try installing the latest drivers from nVidia (detonator drivers should work even better) and run the software configuration again, that should detect everything