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S-Video for 2001FP
Greetings,
I have a customer who recently purchased a video card (GeForce FX5500) that has an S-Video out connector, as well as a Dell 2001FP which has S-Video in. The Dell salesperson told my customer they should get a Monster S-Video cable for a better video image. This didn't sound right to me, but I went with it. We tried to connect the S-Video from the video card to the monitor, but there was no video image even though we tried the S-Video input mode on the monitor. VGA mode works just fine.
I talked to NVidia and they confirmed that the S-Video connection on the video board is for sending the signal to a TV. My question is this... If the video card sends out a proper S-Video signal and the monitor is supposed to be able to display S-Video, why didn't we see an image? I understand that this would not be the optimum way to view the computer video, but it still seems like this should work. Any ideas?
Thanks,
TR
I have a customer who recently purchased a video card (GeForce FX5500) that has an S-Video out connector, as well as a Dell 2001FP which has S-Video in. The Dell salesperson told my customer they should get a Monster S-Video cable for a better video image. This didn't sound right to me, but I went with it. We tried to connect the S-Video from the video card to the monitor, but there was no video image even though we tried the S-Video input mode on the monitor. VGA mode works just fine.
I talked to NVidia and they confirmed that the S-Video connection on the video board is for sending the signal to a TV. My question is this... If the video card sends out a proper S-Video signal and the monitor is supposed to be able to display S-Video, why didn't we see an image? I understand that this would not be the optimum way to view the computer video, but it still seems like this should work. Any ideas?
Thanks,
TR
JDre
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July 12th, 2004 01:00
http://support.dell.com/support/edocs/monitors/2001fp/en/index.htm
You have to select the s-video input AND have the video card properties set to a "Television" as the second display. The 2001FP should act just like a TV then, and you could even connect a DVD player directly to the 2001FP.
Terenus
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July 12th, 2004 06:00
I believe you have to tweak with some settings in your video card's control panel to get it to work.
For my ATI, I would go to Display Properties--> Advanced--> Displays.
Maybe Nvidia has something similar. GL!