Need help with Tv-out issues please (works in safe mode)

[jhughesjr]

Hello,
I've finally gotten around to moving my sage-tv machine out of the office and into the living room. I'm hooking it up to a tv for the first time through my video card (geforce3 T1-200). The screen displays properly during boot up, with the bios screen and the starting windows 2000 screen but then soon as it actually gets to the OS it freaks out. The closest thing I can compare it to is a vhs recorder with the tracking way off. If I boot in safe mode it works, although only at 16 colors. I uninstalled my nvidia drivers and the screen appears properly again with the default 16 color system driver but soon as I install the nvidia driver no go. I've tried screen resulotions of 800x600 and less and colors in 16 bit, 256 colors but no luck. Connecting through 4 pin svideo cable.

[ToxMox]

Have you downloaded the most recent drivers from nVidia for your card?

[jhughesjr]

sorry yes when I reinstalled I reinstalled the latest just downloaded today.
6.6.9.3

[kny3twalker]

you could update it to like a FX 5200 for really cheap
and they work pretty well with VMR9 over svideo

[jhughesjr]

At this point I'm not certain there is an issue with my video card and not my settings. I don't want to buy a new video card and have it not work as well. I was hoping somebody could tell me the settings they have succesfully used with nvidia cards or the changes that are required Ie. you need to go into the advanced timing section and turn interlaced on and then change frequency to x.

[kny3twalker]

do not worry that output will be interlaced
you do not need to set that

you need to make the TV primary when setting up the svideo output

the reason I said the 5200 is because you card is getting a little older and support for TV output back was not as good as the newer cards

this could be both the hardware used to build the card's svideo output and the drivers (software) as well

have you bother trying older drivers?
this maybe a good option

cause not sure why it will work with windows drivers but not the new official releases from nvidia

[edgley]

I had a similar problem with a Nvidia card.
It used to work with the clone setting at 640x480 for a sony crt on s-video.
Then it started behaving like you mentioned.
See if you can get a very low res to display okay.

I fixed it with a new card.

[jhughesjr]

Well I had zero luck with several old nvidia drivers so I swapped out an old but still newer geforce4 mx 440 from another machine I have here and installed the latest nvidia drivers and it worked with out a hitch. The video gets a little choppy at times, but for now its good enough. I'll worry about finding a quality card and saving up for it a little later. It's just nice to have it all set up in the living room and the cables run so it's on the lan now.

Thanks for the help all.

Cheers,
Joe