Geforce FX5200

[pftg4]

Hi everyone just a few short questions just installed my fx5200 (old card i know but wanted to try out a dvi connection and new egg had a sale),so here goes,tried first with dvi connection is all i seem to get is a very shaky picture and sage is very small in the top left hand corner???????

so i thought i would go back to svideo and i´m getting some sort of interference going across the screen and then thought it must be the crappy cable that came with the card so went and brought a thx svideo cable from radio schack but it´s still the same so if you guys have any ideas about the dvi or the svideo it would be a great help,also i had a geforce 440 before did not have a good picture on my HDTV but it was ok know quality is no where as good dispite the interference

What am i doing wrong

Dave

[kny3twalker]

the problem with the 5200 and DVI is that is sounds like you were using VMR9
and the card is simply too under powered for it
in how SageTV currently displays VMR9
try it again with overlay and you should be fine
as for the svideo problem
try reinstalling the video card drivers

but I would certainly run overlay at HDTV resolution over VMR9 over Svideo at 480i

[pftg4]

thanks for the reply,the only way i can get the dvi working is to reduce it to 480(but the tv supports all formats 480/720/1080) not sure what it can be and the interference in the svideo is driving me mad i think i´ll put the old card back in for now

any more ideas???????????

BTW i was using overlay

[kny3twalker]

before dumping the card
download the 67.66 beta drivers from nvidia.com
they are very improved for DVI output to a HDTV
and have underscan adjustment for 720p and 1080i built in

and disconnect svideo when messing with DVI
do not have both connected at the same time

and 480p does not have underscan adjustment though

[fieldeffect]

Sounds a little bit like your TV is not expecting SVideo. See if it has any configurable settings for its inputs, some TVs detect automatically, but my back projection TV needs me to manually set inputs as AV or SVideo. If I use the AV setting with a SVideo output I do get a very strange interference effect.

Nick.

[rrussell]

What manufacturer was the card?